ASIC Engineer
About The Position
You’ll be joining an elite crew in Silicon Operations! You’ll work hand-in-hand with the expert ASIC design teams in the Central Hardware Group and your fellow Test Engineers. Plus, you’ll be the bridge to our NPI teams and manufacturing partners, working together to triage failures and keep our OSAT production lines running at peak performance. Get ready to make a major mark! As our Test Engineer, you’ll be the heartbeat of ATE test bring-up, partnering with the Cisco ASIC team to bring up tests, characterize units, and release those programs to production. You’ll spend your time digging into pattern generation and debugging to identify any gaps in coverage while designing and implementing fresh, innovative tests to supercharge our test quality. On top of that, you’ll take the lead with our Tier-1 OSATs to handle high-volume manufacturing tests and squash any quality issues that pop up along the way, ensuring our hardware is nothing short of world-class.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
- 3+ years’ experience in SOC/VLSI/ bring-up, production, characterization, and test engineering.
- Applied working knowledge of Advantest 93000 tester (Smartest 7 and 8) for characterization and production testing.
- Experience in writing code in C, C++, Java, 93k test methods, PERL, and Python.
Nice To Haves
- Excellent knowledge of the latest state-of-the-art trends in DFT insertion techniques, including Scan, ATPG, JTAG, MBIST, PVT and SerDes.
- Experience with yield improvement and test time reduction activities.
- Proven teamwork & collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem solving & effective conflict resolution skills.
- An effective multi-functional communicator with strong interpersonal skills and multi-functional leadership to get results and change across organizations up to the executive level.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with a high level of motivation and energy.
Responsibilities
- ATE test bring-up
- Partnering with the Cisco ASIC team to bring up tests
- Characterize units
- Release programs to production
- Digging into pattern generation and debugging to identify any gaps in coverage
- Designing and implementing fresh, innovative tests to supercharge test quality
- Taking the lead with Tier-1 OSATs to handle high-volume manufacturing tests
- Squash any quality issues that pop up along the way
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
