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Principal DFT Engineer

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San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/8/2025

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Job Summary:

Arm is a leading technology company specializing in semiconductor and software design. They are seeking a Principal DFT Engineer to architect and implement DFT solutions for System on Chip (SoC) across various business lines, collaborating closely with internal teams and partners throughout the project lifecycle.


Responsibilities:

• Architect DFT solutions for SOC catering to multiple businesses!

• Coordinates DFT requirements across SOC, IP and product teams.

• Implement, and validate innovative DFT techniques on SOCs and sub-systems.

• Insert DFT logic into SoC as well as sub-system level and validate all DFT features using industry standard simulation tools.

• Work closely with multi-functional teams to support DFT RTL level insertion, synthesis and scan insertion, place-and-route, and static-timing-analysis and timing closure.

• Participate in ATE targeted test patterns, validation and silicon- debug!

• Work closely Test and product engineering teams on silicon characterization and validation.


Qualifications:


Required:

• This role is for a Principal DFT Architect with 12 years of shown experience in Design for Test

• 5 years of experience handing DFT architecture for sophisticated SOCs in leading technology nodes.

• Core DFT skills considered for this position should include some of the following Siemens DFT tools, Streaming Scan Network (SSN), Scan compression and insertion, Memory BIST and repair scheme implementation, Logic BIST, JTAG/IJTAG, at-speed test, ATPG, fault simulation, DFT mode timing constraints, back-annotated gate level verification, silicon debug, memory and scan diagnostics.

• Experience with 2.5D and 3D test

• Experience coding Verilog RTL, TCL and/or Perl.


Preferred:

• Familiarity with SoC style architectures including multi-clock domain and low power design practices.

• Familiarity with Arm IP like the following Cortex CPUs, Mali GPUs, AMBA protocols, CoreLink interconnects, CoreSight debug

• Background in high performance design, implementation and timing convergence.

• Experience in leading datacenter SOCs.

• Experience with Cadence, and/or Synopsys DFT and simulation tools


Company:

Arm’s foundational technology is defining the future of computing. A future built by the greatest technology ecosystem in the world. Founded in 1990, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GBR, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Arm has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

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