Senior Post-silicon Power & Performance Attainment Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

This role is for a Senior Post-Silicon Power & Performance Attainment Engineer at AMD, focusing on Design-for-Test (DFT) architecture, implementation, and validation for complex SoC designs. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to ensure test coverage, efficient manufacturing test solutions, and successful silicon bring-up. The role involves defining and implementing DFT features, performing scan insertion and ATPG, verifying patterns, analyzing test coverage, and supporting silicon bring-up and yield learning. While the company mentions AI and data centers, the core responsibilities are in semiconductor design and testing, not AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define, implement, and validate DFT architectures for complex ASIC and SoC designs.
  2. Develop and integrate DFT features including scan compression, boundary scan, JTAG, and memory BIST solutions.
  3. Perform scan insertion, DFT synthesis, and ATPG pattern generation to achieve manufacturing test goals.
  4. Verify ATPG patterns through gate-level simulation and debug test-related issues throughout the design cycle.
  5. Analyze test coverage, fault models, and manufacturing test effectiveness, driving improvements in quality and test cost.

Skills

Required

  • DFT methodologies
  • digital design
  • scan-based test architectures
  • ATPG flows
  • silicon debug
  • Verilog/SystemVerilog
  • scripting languages (Perl, Python, Tcl, or Shell)

Nice to have

  • Synopsys DFTMAX/TetraMAX or Siemens EDA Tessent/TestKompress
  • Synopsys VCS
  • gate-level simulation
  • timing analysis
  • physical design considerations
  • debugging silicon
  • manufacturing test bring-up
  • advanced process-node ASIC or SoC development