Semicustom Dft Strategy Lead

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

This role is for a Semicustom DFT Strategy Lead at AMD, focusing on Design-for-Test (DFT) and Design-for-Debug (DFD) for complex semiconductor products like APUs, GPUs, and game consoles. The lead will influence strategy, drive adoption of DFT standards, analyze post-silicon experiments, and manage relationships with EDA and ATE industries. While the company mentions AI and data centers, the core responsibilities are in semiconductor DFT, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with SOC and PDG teams to drive adoption of and ensure compliance with the company-wide DFT strategy that is continuously aligned with the strategies for the Design, Product Engineering, and Quality functions.
  2. Continually and successfully advocate for maintaining testability features while designs work through various stages, ie floor planning, timing closure, etc.
  3. Follow up with post-silicon experiments to analyze the effectiveness of DFT features to determine their return on investment to justify ongoing usage.
  4. Influence and drive outside partners in the EDA and ATE industries.
  5. Evaluate outside available tools and make decisions on Build vs Buy.

Skills

Required

  • Extensive knowledge and experience across the areas of DFT and testing
  • Lead by influence
  • Nurture deep relationships with Design and Product teams
  • Synthesize input and make demonstrable impact on test strategy
  • Innovation of advanced test techniques
  • Setting industry direction through standards and engagement with the Industry test community
  • Keeping AMD”s Test Professionals informed and engaged with the creation and execution of a vigorous DFT Roadmap
  • Drive adoption of and ensure compliance with company-wide DFT strategy
  • Advocate for maintaining testability features
  • Analyze post-silicon experiments to determine ROI of DFT features
  • Influence and drive outside partners in EDA and ATE industries
  • Evaluate outside available tools and make decisions on Build vs Buy
  • Lead and manage a team to architect and implement internal solutions
  • Extensive and Senior knowledge in DFT and Testing for semiconductor designs
  • Defining a world-class DFT roadmap strategy
  • Drive enterprise and cross-department collaboration for DFT
  • Partnering with industry leading EDA and ATE companies
  • Knowledge with current and industry leading EDA and ATE tools
  • Experience developing and deploying internal DFT Tools successfully

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

What the JD emphasized

  • optimal tradeoff of an often-conflicting set of goals: schedule, Power/Performance/Area, cost and especially quality ( DPPM )
  • synthesize this input and make a demonstrable impact on a World-Class test strategy
  • innovation of advanced test techniques
  • setting industry direction through standards and engagement with the Industry test community
  • creation and execution of a vigorous DFT Roadmap