DfT Architect

Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor products, including solutions for automotive and other connected applications.

What you will do

• Define DfT strategies and architectures for complex SoCs and IPs, covering digital, memory, analog, and mixed-signal test.
• Create and maintain DfT specifications, testability requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead DfT implementation teams and align system architects, designers, verification engineers, physical designers, product engineers, and test engineers.
• Define test concepts, fault-modeling and coverage strategies, and support yield, DPPM, test-cost, and production-readiness analysis.
• Support silicon bring-up, characterization, production ramp, and root-cause analysis of field and production failures.
• Develop reusable DfT methodologies, influence EDA tool improvements, and contribute to technical working groups and industry best practices.

Requirements

• MSc or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of semiconductor development experience.
• Previous experience as a DfT Architect, Lead Engineer, or Technical Lead, with delivery of complex SoC products from concept through production.
• Strong knowledge of scan architecture, ATPG, test compression, JTAG, IEEE 1687, and IEEE 1149.x.
• Experience with Memory BIST, Logic BIST, analog DfT, mixed-signal test, fault modeling, coverage analysis, silicon debug, diagnosis, and production test development.
• Knowledge of automotive quality methodologies, RTL design and verification flows, and modern EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence, or Siemens.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to influence technical direction across projects and business lines.
• Responsibility for standardization, reuse, methodology development, and automation improvements.
• Coaching, mentoring, training, hiring, and technical career-development responsibilities.
• Participation in internal and external technical working groups.