Senior Silicon Design Engineer (dfx)

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Penang, Malaysia · Engineering

This role is for a Senior Silicon Design Engineer focused on Design for Test (DFx) at AMD. The engineer will implement and verify DFT features, perform scan insertion and ATPG, and work with synthesis and PD teams. While the company mentions AI and data centers, and exposure to AI work is a plus, the core responsibilities are in traditional silicon design and verification, not directly building or researching AI models. The role is in Penang, Malaysia.

What you'd actually do

  1. Implement and verify DFT features such as SCAN, MBIST, and BSCAN.
  2. Perform Spyglass DFT bring-up, debug and coverage improvement.
  3. Perform scan insertion and ATPG (Traditional, Cell Aware, SSN) pattern generation.
  4. Verify ATPG patterns using gate level simulation.
  5. Analyze and improve ATPG and DFT DV test coverage.

Skills

Required

  • DFT features (SCAN, MBIST, BSCAN)
  • Spyglass DFT
  • Scan insertion
  • ATPG
  • Gate level simulation
  • DFT verification tests
  • Synthesis
  • PD team collaboration
  • Post silicon support
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

Nice to have

  • Scan stitching
  • MBIST/BISR implementation
  • Synopsys SMS MBIST insertion flow
  • Tessent SSN
  • C++
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Automation scripts (Perl or Python)
  • JTAG and IJTAG fundamentals
  • AI related work
  • Post silicon bring up
  • Static timing analysis
  • Timing closure