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Senior DFT Consultant (Tessent)

Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software)
Fremont, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026
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About The Role

Location: US, remote

The Design for Test Consultant will be responsible for supporting the use of Tessent DFT software in the design of complex Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs. As a Design for Test Consultant, you will be part of a team contributing to implementing and verifying DFT features within our Enterprise Customer’s (ASIC) products, as well as enabling them to utilize our advanced methodologies around our Tessent tool suite.

Areas of responsibility

  • Expectation is to be proficient in the following:
    • Delivering consulting services covering a broad range of DFT activities
    • Working with customers to implement and deploy DFT flows centered around Tessent tool
    • Enabling customer adoption of the full capability of Tessent software and methodologies
    • Effectively communicating how Siemens Digital Industries Software products and service offerings address customers’ technical objectives
    • Articulating customer’s technical requirements and influencing product engineering to shape product direction
    • Building and maintaining ongoing positive relationships with customers
  • Working collaboratively with team members to ensure mutual success
  • Delivering Tessent-based solutions to address our customer’s technical and business needs
  • Occasional travel world-wide to customer sites, primarily within Europe
Your Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will possess the following combination of education and experience:

  • BSEE or BSCS, or equivalent; MSEE preferred
  • ASIC Design for Test experience
  • Interested in applying engineering skills in a creative way to solve unique customer challenges
  • Existing Design for Test experience is required including the following:
    • MBIST
    • IJTAG
    • Boundary Scan
    • Scan, ATPG
    • Embedded Compression
  • Strong understanding of the overall ASIC design
  • Experience in design flow automation in the Tessent Shell environment
  • Experienced in Memory BIST with repair using Tessent MBIST
  • Experienced with Logic BIST using Tessent Hybrid TK/LBIST
  • Experience with IJTAG (IEEE 1687), ICL/PDL
  • Experience performing boundary scan insertion using Tessent Boundary Scan
  • Experience in ATPG and compression using TestKompress
  • Experience in scan insertion using Tessent Scan
  • Experience in the verification leveraging Tessent generated testbenches using Questa and industry standard simulation tools
  • Experience with tcl scripting
  • DFT architecture and methodology development is highly desired
  • RTL design experience is a plus
  • Strong communication skills are essential
  • Self-motivated and self-disciplined
Working at Siemens Software

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

At Siemens, we are always challenging ourselves to build a better future. We need the most innovative and diverse Digital Minds to develop tomorrow‘s reality.

Siemens. Making Real What Matters

If you want to make a difference – make it with us!

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