Principle DFT Engineer
NXP Semiconductors
Posted: April 14, 2026
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Quick Summary
Principal DFT engineer with 10+ years of experience in designing and implementing DFT solutions, working with DFT instruments and delivering comprehensive verification coverage.
Required Skills
Job Description
About the Position:
As a Pune MCU team DFT lead, this candidate needs to architect DFT design, in charge of DFT instruments insertion and simulation; work with SOC lead/IP designers and DV team to deliver DFT implementations, verify and review verification coverage; work with BE lead for DFT modes STA, IR drop analysis; work with test engineers to bring up test patterns on silicon; provide guidance to Jr. DFT Engineers.
Minimum qualifications
• BS/MS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 10+ years of DFT experience
• Hands-on expertise with Mentor/Synopsys test generation tools for large complex designs
• DFT lead experience for complex SOC TO and Production
• Strong fundamental knowledge of DFT techniques include JTAG, ATPG, test pattern translation, yield learning, logic diagnosis, scan compression, IEEE 1500 Standard, and MBIST, LBIST, SSN
Preferred qualifications
• Experience with synthesis, STA and back-end implementation flows
• Familiar with Tessent shell flow for DFT instruments insertion include MBIST, IJTAG, SSN, BSCAN, OCC etc
• Solid Lab and test floor bring-up and debug experience
• Yield estimation and test optimization
• DFT AI mindset
responsibilities
• Define and implement DFT structure, design and methodologies that include scan/mbist/jtag and functional testing
• Create test vectors or oversee their creation
• Collaborate with physical design team to close timing in DFT mode
• Sign-off DFT requirements are being met
• work with testing team to bring-up test patterns on silicon
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