DFT Lead Engineer (ASIC)

Location: San Jose, California, USA; onsite at hirify.global's development center

Annual base salary: USD 143,800–230,000, plus discretionary bonus and equity awards.

Company

hirify.global's ASIC Product Division develops ASIC products and SoC designs for customers across multiple industries.

What you will do

• Lead DFT programs from chip-level specification through implementation, verification, tape release, and production.
• Define DFT specifications based on product requirements, customer requirements, and DPPM targets.
• Implement and verify Scan, MBIST, TAP, LBIST, IO, SerDes, and other IP-level DFT integrations.
• Generate, verify, debug, and validate test vectors during silicon bring-up and ATE testing.
• Support failure analysis, diagnostics, yield improvement, and debugging of customer-returned parts.
• Collaborate with STA, physical design, test engineering, manufacturing, customers, and other DFT stakeholders while developing automated DFT flows.

Requirements

• Strong DFT experience in IO and analog DFT, ATPG, Scan, BIST, and related areas.
• Experience with scan insertion and compression tools such as DFT Compiler and TestKompress, and ATPG tools such as TetraMax or Fastscan.
• Experience with Verilog, testbench development, simulation, MBIST, boundary scan, IEEE 1149.1, IEEE 1149.6, IEEE 1687, IJTAG, ICL, and PDL.
• Knowledge of test-STA, timing constraints, analog and digital circuit design, synthesis, silicon processing, and transistor reliability.
• Programming experience with TCL, Perl, Ruby, Python, C++, or similar languages.
• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant industry experience, or a master's degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience, in electrical, electronic, or computer engineering.

Nice to have

• ATE experience and silicon debug.
• Experience with SerDes, DDR, PCIe, ENET, CXL IOBIST, and Tessent SSN.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration with globally located customer, physical design, test engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) participation with company matching and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Paid holidays, sick leave, vacation, paid family leave, and other applicable leave programs.
• Discretionary annual bonus, new-hire equity grants, and annual equity awards.