Efinix is a rapidly growing, privately held FPGA company. Our FPGAs lead the industry in price and performance thanks to their revolutionary fabric in which logic elements can be used interchangeably as logic or routing. At Efinix we have a fast paced, “startup” mentality and value inclusion and contributions from everybody in our dynamic “family”. If you are a driven team player that thrives in a fast-paced environment where you are free to identify, define, and deliver against your own goals, we would love to hear from you. Contact us today at jobs@efinixinc.com to find out how you can join our energetic team.
We are currently hiring for the following positions (click for details):
Position: Application Engineer Design Engineer Digital IP Design Engineer Test & Characterization Engineer Software Engineer Non-Engineering
IC Design Engineer
Location: Penang Malaysia
As an IC Design Engineer, you will work with the circuit design, software engineering, business development unit and potentially customer to define and design the Efinix’s IP and system to meet customers’ requirements. Also, you will be creating the IP and system documentations.
Responsibilities:
- Work on the definition and development of design, verification, and documentation for Efinix’s devices, IPs, and system development.
- Work on multiple aspects of IC design such as custom design, frontend design and verification/validation.
- Work with other functional teams, e.g., software, application and teams to enable Efinix’s product.
- Work on the design collaterals, e.g., timing libraries, verification models, design models and release these collaterals to the related teams
- Work with business development team in understanding customer’s product requirements and generating the necessary specification and design.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering (Electronics /Computer Engineering) or equivalent.
- 1-20 years of working experience in IC design and IP development using FPGA/ASIC design principle/techniques.
- Strong semiconductor device knowledge and overall IC design flow.
- Experience in customer design and/or frontend design technique, e.g., schematic capture, RTL coding skills and languages including VHDL/Verilog. Experience in IP integration in chip and/or subsystems.
Regional Director of Sales, North America
Location: Multiple locations will be considered.
Efinix summary:
Efinix®, an innovator in programmable products, is committed to delivering the low power and reconfigurability of its high-performance Titanium FPGA silicon platforms for applications in the mainstream market. Efinix FPGAs deliver power, performance, and area advantages over traditional FPGA technologies, unlocking new applications and delivering rapid time to market. Titanium devices range from 35K to 2M logic elements, have a small form-factor, low-power, and are priced for high-volume production. The Efinity® Integrated Development Environment provides a complete FPGA design suite from RTL to bitstream. For more information, visit http://www.efinixinc.com.
Position Overview:
The Regional Director of Sales will set the technical direction for their respective region customer facing resources, Manufacture Representatives/ Distribution Sales and FAE, while cultivating lasting relationships with key clients. The Regional Director will provide technical/architectural expertise for key client engagements, assist key clients with development support for all Efinix products.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor and develop customer facing resources, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning and results.
- Recruit, onboard and retain top tier representatives, aligning the company’s values and objectives.
- Implement effective performance management plans, tracking programs providing regular feedback to customer facing resources and management team.
Leadership & Team Building
- Possess a background in FPGA development and design, staying updated on market trends and competitor offering.
- Knowledge of Linux OS, embedded Linux development environment.
- Familiarity with RISC V and ARM processing architecture
- Familiarity with System Verilog, Verilog and VHDL
- Serve as a trusted advisor to our key client engagements, customer facing resources and internal operations team.
Technical Expertise & Customer Focus
- Drive revenue growth through the effective deployment of customer facing resources, exceeding assigned quotas and targets.
- Track and analyze key performance indicators that measure the impact of customer facing resources and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Build strong relationships across the organization, fostering collaboration with marketing, operations and applications team.
Results & Accountability
Required Skills:
- BSEE degree, 5 – 10+ years of experience preferred.
- Exceptional leadership, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic client engagements.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
Compensation:
Competitive base salary and performance-based incentives. Base salary: $150k - $200k +commission Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance. Stock options are a part of the compensation package of this role.
Efinix provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Senior Field Applications Engineer, North America
Location: Multiple locations will be considered. Prefer one in the Bay area, CA
Efinix summary:
Efinix®, an innovator in programmable products, is committed to delivering the low power and reconfigurability of its high-performance Titanium FPGA silicon platforms for applications in the mainstream market. Efinix FPGAs deliver power, performance, and area advantages over traditional FPGA technologies, unlocking new applications and delivering rapid time to market. Titanium devices range from 35K to 2M logic elements, have a small form-factor, low-power, and are priced for high-volume production. The Efinity® Integrated Development Environment provides a complete FPGA design suite from RTL to bitstream. For more information, visit http://www.efinixinc.com.
Position Overview:
We have open positions for Senior Field Applications Engineers. The individual/s in this role will provide pre and post sales technical guidance and support for customers of Efinix FPGAs. These are field focused positions helping the customer architect solutions using Efinix technology and working with the customer’s engineering resources to resolve issues and bring product seamlessly to market. As a highly technical extension of the sales organization, these individuals will develop training material and reference applications to effectively demonstrate the capabilities of Efinix FPGAs. They will propose responses to customers RFI/RFQ and consult on the selection of appropriate Efinix products. They will be an advocate for the customer within Efinix and will be a channel for feeding back customer requirements to assist in new product definition.
Responsibilities
- Provide the customer with pre and post sales technical support.
- Assist the sales team in generation and presentation of training material.
- Review customer architectures, schematics and layouts.
- Provide Efinix with feedback on customer requirements.
- Consult on component selection and assist customers with adoption of Efinix technology.
- Provide on-site technical resolution of customer issues.
- Advocate for the customer within Efinix and provide an effective conduit for Efinix factory resources in issue resolution.
- Assist Efinix outbound campaigns with technical content for tradeshows and events.
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated experience in FPGA system design, FPGA architectures and devices, embedded processors and video/vision systems
- Strong track record of Verilog, VHDL design, FPGA tool flows, IP creation and system debug.
- Experience with embedded processor systems, C/C++ programming, hardware/software architectural partitioning and SoC architectures.
- Understanding of Artificial Intelligence architectures and common tool flows as they pertain to embedded implementations.
- Deep understanding of diverse interface protocols (PCIe, MIPI, SLVS-EC, Ethernet, LPDDR4)
- Strong problem solving and outstanding communication skills.
Education:
Minimum BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
Compensation:
Competitive base salary and performance-based incentives. Base salary: $140k - $170k + bonus Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance. Stock options are a part of the compensation package of this role.
Efinix provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Sales (Japan)
Location: Japan (either Tokyo or Osaka)
We are looking for an experienced Sales (or Technical Sales) to work in Japan to help demand creation and customer support. If you are passionate, adaptable, and have the winner's attitude, Efinix, a fast growing young company, is the place for you.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive distributor program to accelerate and expand Efinix business
- Work with distributors Sales and FAEs to identify potential opportunities and create a create a business/strategic plan
- Knowledge to Identify new customer and expand FPGA users database in collaboration with FAEs
- Create account strategy plan and set milestone to track progress against your plan
- Based on product roadmap, bring product message, strategy and sales story to customers and markets leveraging distributor sales resources.
- Engage with our customer's high-level system architects, and key decision makers, to understand their system applications, influence their design choices, provide creative solutions for their requirements making optimal use of our FPGAs.
- Establish relationship with distributor and direct customers for joint success.
- Manage and report opportunity status with distribution.
- Create and maintain project progress reports for direct opportunities.
- Create a solid forecast together with the customers and distributors.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of prior experience in semiconductor Sales (FPGA, preferred)
- Experience working with major OEMs is highly preferred in Industrial, Medical, Telecommunication, Automotive and/or others
- Experience in Distribution Management is highly preferred.
- Experience working with a CRM systems to track, manage and maintain projects.
- Embedded system, High-speed interface, digital design (HW and SW) support experiences are plus
- Fluent Japanese communication skills (verbal and written), and business acumen are assumed. English communication skill is a plus.
- Excellent Japanese and English communication skills (verbal and written), and business acumen are critical
Senior Staff Software Engineer – Placement / Routing / Physical Synthesis
Location: Toronto, Canada
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to work in the Efinity Place & Route team. Develop state-of-the-art techniques for placement, routing, and/or physical synthesis. Work on our software to utilize the full potential from our next generation Titanium FPGA family.
Responsibilities:
- Drive research and development of placement, routing, and/or physical synthesis.
- Improve run-time / memory consumption for future large FPGA devices.
- Develop custom solutions to support customer engagements
Qualifications:
- B.Sc. + 10 years, M.Sc. + 8 years, PhD + 4 years in Computer Engineering / Computer Science
- Knowledge of FPGAs
- C++, Python
- Experience with EDA algorithms (Global/Detailed Placement, Routing, Physical Synthesis)
- Machine Learning experience is an asset
Software Engineer – Placement / Routing / Physical Synthesis
Location: Toronto, Canada
Develop state-of-the-art techniques for placement, routing, and/or physical synthesis. Work on our software to utilize the full potential from our next generation Titanium FPGA family.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to research and development of placement, routing, and/or physical synthesis.
- Improve run-time / memory consumption for future large FPGA devices.
- Develop custom solutions to support customer engagements.
Qualifications:
- B.Sc. + 6 years, M.Sc. + 4 years, PhD +0 years in Computer Engineering / Computer Science.
- Strong analytical/programming abilities.
- Knowledge of FPGAs is an asset.
- C++, Python.
- Experience with EDA algorithms (Global/Detailed Placement, Routing, Physical Synthesis).
- Machine Learning experience is an useful.
Junior Software Engineer – Placement / Routing / Physical Synthesis
Location: Toronto, Canada
Help develop state-of-the-art techniques for placement, routing, and/or physical synthesis. Work on our software to utilize the full potential from our next generation Titanium FPGA family.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to research and development of placement, routing, and/or physical synthesis.
- Improve run-time / memory consumption for future large FPGA devices.
- Improve infrastructure to assure software quality.
Qualifications:
- B.Sc. + 2 years related work experience or M.Sc. in Computer Engineering / Computer Science.
- Strong analytical and programming abilities.
- C++, Python.
- Knowledge of FPGAs is an asset.
- Knowledge of EDA algorithms is a plus (Global/Detailed Placement, Routing, Physical Synthesis).
- Machine Learning experience is useful.
Digital IP Engineer
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Work on the digital IP and/or it’s subsystem definition and development covering RTL creation, verification, and documentation for the IP and system developed. The IP could be either be hardened IP on silicon or provided as soft IP solution to customers.
- Write design RTL code, and ensure design quality is met through lint, clock/power domain crossing and formal property checks. This includes writing timing constraints and UPF to ensure the design is synthesis clean to be handed to the physical design team.
- Work on the design collaterals, e.g. timing libraries, verification models, design models and release these collaterals to the related teams
- Create and execute the verification plan covering IP block to subsystem, using SystemVerilog and/or constrained random verification (UVM/OVM), assertion based verification and functional coverage techniques. This includes hands-on system validation of the design on hardware/development board.
- Conduct results review against the coverage goals. Track and improve the tests to ensure the desired coverage is met.
- Work with design and physical design team to harden the IP for IP develop for the hardware platform by providing fully verified IP which meeting the IP specification and necessary collateral, e.g. timing constraint, RTL netlist and etc.
- Work with Application team in defining the soft IP specification and the complete design process. Productize the IP into Efinix’s EDA for external customer usage.
- Support both internal and external customer’s inquiries and issues which related to the IP developed.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering (Electronic/Computer Engineering) or equivalent.
- 1-20 years of working experience in IC design and/or ASIC IP logic design and verification.
- Experience in frontend design technique, e.g. RTL coding skills and languages including VHDL/Verilog.
- Experience and knowledge in FPGA design and scripting (Perl/python/tcl/shell scripts/etc) is a plus.
- Experience in IP integration in chip and/or subsystems.
Design Verification Engineer
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Create verification and validation plan based on IP/FPGA architecture specifications and carry out all the validation tasks. The plan should include functional, system level and fullchip verification and validation perspectives.
- Developing IP/subsystem/system level/fullchip testbench, create tests, and necessary coverage goals based on specification to verify the design.
- Carry out the results review against the coverage goals. Track and improve the tests to ensure the desire coverage is met.
- Support cross-functional teams in IP functional validation tests for IP bring-up on actual FPGA.
- Standardizing verification and validation framework, drive system test design implementation and overall IP system validation on HW.
- Define and develop verification and validation tools and flows to reduce the verification time.
- Interfacing with 3rd party vendors for latest industry tool and methodology evaluation.
- Apply advanced techniques to achieve verification and validation with the highest quality, productivity, and time-to-market.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering in Electrical / Electronics or equivalent.
- More than 5 years of working experience in IC design verification.
- Experienced in creating and executing validation plans Is preferred.
- Experienced in creating testbenches for design verification/validation according to test plans.
- Experienced in mentor or leading a verification or validation team is a plus.
- Knowledge with verification tools and methodologies.
- Familiar in RTL design with Verilog and/or VHDL is a strong pl.
- Familiar with advanced verification methodologies such as UVM, OVM, VMM, System Verilog, constrained-random verification, assertion-based verification, and functional coverage techniques is a strong plus.
- Knowledge of IP protocol, e.g., memory interface protocol (DDR, HBM, etc.) or high speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, etc.) is a strong plus.
- Familiar with Perl, Tcl, Python, and shell scripts is a plus.
- Good debugging, problem solving and analytical skills.
Senior Test Development Engineer
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Design engineering, Quality, and Production Engineering teams to define the test methodology/flow and necessary equipment.
- Review design validation tests and flow for coverage improvements. Ensure all validation tests are performed to cover the product specification.
- Involve in product design for test (DFT) definition for device testability and improve test coverage.
- Create test design documentation including test instructions, specifications, verification plan and test patterns.
- Liaise with sub-contractors to implement production testing
- Drive product issues resolution and engineering evaluation
- Support the product sustaining activities which include product performance improvement (yield, test time, quality etc.) and cost reduction. e.g., Analyse Fab and test data using SPC methodologies.
- Prepare test report for design, engineering and qualification samples.
- Contribute to project plans by providing time-scale estimates.
- Drive engineering initiatives for continuous improvement on existing product.
- Support process, devices and design engineering teams in all product and test chip activities.
- Perform tasks needed by company which adhere to company policy to ensure company’s business operation.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent.
- 1-20 years of working experience in the related field.
- Experience in FPGA / Test EDA software is preferred.
- Statistical methods and tools for data analysis
- DFT features knowledge, e.g., ATPG, memory BIST, JTAG etc.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skill.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill in English
- Ability to work in a fast-paced global team environment
- Familiar with FPGA test methodology, e.g., REGSCAN, Configuration, IP/device functionality.
- Familiar and hands on testing methodology (DFT), test equipment and device qualification
- Knowledge in tool and fixture design skill is a plus
CAD Engineer (IC Design)
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Install, setup and maintain foundry’s process collaterals, e.g PDK for design development.
- Create all necessary processes and qualify the process collaterals for targeted EDA toolset.
- Define, execute, and continue improving the EDA tool master plan to assist the design environment to improve the design efficiency and productivity.
- Including but not limited to creating new processes, flow or tool and identify and improve the inefficiency in current EDA flow.
- The design environment covers the design, verification, DFT/Test and potential characterization flow.
- Work with engineering team (design/layout/verification) in understanding the working need and eventually identify the EDA tool needs and flow automation requirements to improve the design efficiency and quality.
- Evaluate new EDA technologies/process/capabilities for all engineering teams including tools/methodology evaluations, flow development, scripting, and deployment.
- Maintain, improve and/or consolidate the existing CAD/EDA scripts/flows in helping to standardize the design processes.
- Interface with CAD tools vendor in resolving tools and flow issues which are related to tool.
- Potentially involved in licensing negotiations with the tool vendor.
- Continuous team education on new tools/methodology, technological improvement, and roadmap.
- Perform tasks needed by company which adhere to company o policy to ensure company’s business operation.
Education & Experience:
- More 5 years of experience in process technology, design EDA, flow and methodology development
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
- Good/strong scripting skills in Pyton, shell, perl, tcl, skill code or equivalent
Skill & Knowledge:
- Good understanding and knowledge of deep submicron process technology collaterals (DRC/TDR), spice modeling, variation modelling and etc.
- Familiarity with semiconductor reliability physics and failure mechanisms, including electromigration (EM), latch-up (LU), and electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a plus.
- Demonstrated expertise and proficiency in design EDA tools from CAD vendors such as Synopsys, Cadence and etc.
Inside Sales Representative
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Supporting customers on any pre/ post-order requirement, acting as main point of contact between customer and other departments in Efinix.
- Cross check price on customer PO against the price quoted, agreed payment terms and other T&C.
- Timely confirmation of the order delivery date to customer after confirming the PO. Work with the internal planning team to pull-in delivery if customer requested date is not met.
- Support order pull-in/push-out, cancelling P/O, credit issues, RMA and product change notification ( PCN ) depends on customer requirement.
- Set up direct account for regional sales and work well with contract manufacturers as per terms and conditions of the sales and purchase order.
- Assist in promotion programs and campaigns to generate more customers and increased sales in the assigned geographic territory and/or customer segment.
- Periodic monitoring and coordinating with manufacturers to meet stipulated shipment schedule for the orders.
- To ensure all the necessary reports are to be updated by daily, weekly basis for monthly report preparation and submission.
Qualifications:
- Degree holder in Business, eCommerce, Information System, Marketing, Communications, or related discipline.
- Min 5 years of experience in Customer Service, eCommerce / digital marketing or Inside Sales with semiconductor experience is preferable.
- Experience in the semiconductor industry and/or distributor would be an advantage.
- Strong knowledge in ERP system, Microsoft Windows applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Work in a team environment sharing tasks, motivated self-starter, detail oriented, and positive attitude.
- Able to work with European and US team in their respective time zone.
Product Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Manage daily Wafer Sort and Final Test operations at sub-con test house, including lot disposition and low-yield resolution.
- Provide engineering support for a rapid and agile operation business ramp.
- Drive quality and reliability qualifications such as HTOL, THB, ESD, LU, HAST, etc.
- Develop test content for failure analysis and fault localization to drive yield improvement.
- Coordinate with cross functional teams on all product issues such as customer return, coverage improvements, etc.
- Manage product cost reduction through test yield improvement, test time reduction, binning strategy, etc.
- Champion new test site qualifications and product transfer to offshore test sites.
- Problem solving through root-cause analysis, data mining and statistical modelling.
- Perform tasks needed by company which adhere to company policy to ensure company’s business operation.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronics) or equivalent.
- 5 to 10 years of experience in product and test engineering.
- Experience on ATE platforms, such as Advantest 93K, Teradyne J750, etc.
- Proficiency in understanding circuit schematic and device operation, performing product failure analysis and production test debug.
- Yield analysis experience with statistical analytics background is preferred.
- Familiarity with high-level programming languages such as C++/ Python and have a working knowledge of UNIX shell scripting.
- Good written and verbal communication skills are essential.
- Experience in FPGA or PLD products is an added advantage.
Physical Design Engineer
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Implement all physical design related aspects from power distribution planning; Placement and optimization (timing/area/power); Clock network planning; Clock tree synthesis/balancing; layout timing optimization and Signal/Power Integrity analysis, Power Analysis.
- Perform all necessary physical verification for the layout designed to ensure the layout meets its desired functionality and all manufacturing requirements.
- Propose and/or implement enhancement for tools, flows and methodologies to improve layout design efficiency.
- Communicate regularly with the project lead and potentially project teams worldwide to resolve issues and to ensure meeting targeted goals and schedule.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering in Electrical / Electronics or equivalent.
- 1-20 years of working experience in physical design field.
- Understand the IC layout aspect, e.g., floor-planning, timing.
- Knowledge with layout design tools and methodologies.
- Knowledge in physical design: floor planning, placement and area optimization, clock network planning, power distribution planning and routing.
- Post layout physical verification and DFM rules (Mentor Calibre/Cadence PVS).
- Scripting skills in SKILL, Perl, Tcl and Shell, with good understanding of UNIX/LINUX.
Costing and Financial Planning Analysis Specialist
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Conduct standard costing and variance analysis for manufacturing and product costs.
- Develop and maintain cost models and dashboards to track unit and product margins.
- Prepare monthly/month-end FP&A reporting, including forecasts, budgets and management commentary.
- Analyze revenue and expense trends; identify risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain and Product teams to validate assumptions and data.
- Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, ad-hoc financial projects and business reviews.
- Assist with inventory reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and prepare related reports.
- Lead year-end physical count reconciliation and liaise with Operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s in Finance, Accounting or related field; professional qualification (e.g. CPA/ACCA).
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in costing analysis, budgeting/forecasting or FP&A
- Strong Excel skills (e.g. pivot tables, formulae) and familiarity with ERP/BI tools (e.g. SAP, Power BI).
- Solid analytical mindset with attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication; able to translate data into actionable insights.
- Collaborative, proactive and eager to learn in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Domain & Validation Engineer
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical expertise to resolve customer’s design issue.
- Develop reference design to demonstrate FPGA usage.
- Assist other development and operation teams in performing hardware/IP issues debug and analysis.
- Perform FPGA hardware system validation and potentially logic simulation.
- Provide technical information and data on Efinix products to internal and external users.
- Generate product collaterals including datasheet, technical notes and application notes.
- Design and develop FPGA development kits for new FPGA devices
- Working closely with FAE and Solutions AE (SAE) in providing a solution to ease customer’s adoption to Efinix’s products.
- Ensure timely response to FAE/SAE for customers technical support requests.
- Participate in periodic Supplier assessment to evaluate suppliers’ performance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor/Masters Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering.
- 3-5 years experience in system validation role.
- Strong in RTL and system knowledge or understanding.
- Candidate with basic knowledge in DDR/MIPI/PCIe will be an added advantage.
DFT Engineer
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Responsibilities:
- Define and developing comprehensive DFT strategy and architectures for all FPGA chips including its digital, analog and mixed-signal blocks.
- Work with Design team in implement and verifying the DFT structures (scan, BIST, JTAG, ATPG and etc) to ensure the structures are correctly inserted in FPGA products.
- Support DFT pattern generation, verification, test coverage analysis and improvement for FPGA’s IP/system.
- Lead the tradeoff of test coverage vs. test cost evaluation and decision making to ensure high coverage while achieving cost target for each product.
- Support post-silicon bring-up, yield analysis/improvement, silicon debug of DFT pattern issues on bench/ATE to root cause the problem.
- Develop DFT flow automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering with min 5 years’ experience in DFT development.
- Solid knowledge in different DFT scheme and architecture, scan, ATPG, MBIST, JTAG, boundary scan, at-speed testing and etc.
- Experience in creating and implementing complex chip-level DFT architecture.
- Knowledge of defect types, fault models, debugging, and validation on ATE and silicon bring-up.
- Prior experience in engaging Design teams on pre-Silicon test planning and validation.
- Strong understanding of design principles and the full ASIC/custom IC design flow.
- Excellent debugging skills for RTL, analog blocks and gate-level simulations.
- Experience with DFT tools (e.g. TetraMAX, Modus or Tessent), ATPG (Stuck-At, At-Speed, Path-Delay) and scan compression.
- Experience in developing test benches and simulation in RTL/GATE/SDF environments.
- Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or TCL for automation.
- Solid understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes and fault models.
- Knowledge of FPGA architecture/design flow, various BIST is a strong plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose complex issues.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work with cross functional teams.