Senior ASIC DFT DV Engineer (Hybrid)
About The Position
The Silicon One team creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with at least 7+ years (or Master's with 4+ years) of experience.
- Prior experience in test planning based on complex design specification
- Experience debugging using DVE/Verdi.
- Prior experience with memory architectures (SRAM, DRAM, etc.) and failure modes.
- Experience with TCL, Python or Perl.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Verilog/SV
- Experience addressing memory failure correlation in production
- Experience in silicon testing and Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)
- Experience with industry-standard DFT tools (e.g., Synopsys DesignWare, SMS, TestMax, Mentor Graphics Tessent).
Responsibilities
- Responsible for thorough test planning and development of test benches to verify comprehensive Design-for-Test (DFT) architecture that supports ATE screening, in-system test, debug and diagnostics needs of the design
- Own the MBIST methodology across the Silicon One portfolio, driving unified, high-quality standards for memory testing.
- Architect reusable, hierarchical infrastructures that scale across massive designs to accelerate time-to-market for future silicon.
- Work with Front-end RTL teams, backend physical design teams to understand chip architecture and drive high-quality DFT verification.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- paid holidays
- floating holiday
- paid time off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- paid days off for personal wellness
- paid vacation time
- sick time off
- paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses
- performance-based incentive pay
- restricted stock units
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
