At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence Design Systems is looking for a highly motivated engineer to be part of the Modus R&D team, with a focus on validating and supporting Design-for-test (DFT) technologies. Candidate must have 7+ years of experience in DFT/ATPG/ASIC Design flows and knowledge of RTL Verilog/VHDL coding styles, Synthesis. This position requires excellent communication skills (written and oral) to interface with Product Engineers (PEs) and R&D and will occasionally also involve direct customer support responsibilities. Will work on complex problems that require innovative thinking, debugging customer reported problems and collaboration with R&D to propose out-of-box solutions with emphasis on robustness, PPA and scalability.

Role Responsibility

Work as a DFT Product Validation Engineer on insertion and validation of DFT technologies such as 1500 Wrapper, Boundary Scan, Compression, RTL DFT, Hierarchical Test, LBIST etc. using Cadence Synthesis tool Genus and ATPG using Cadence Test tool Modus on in-house and customer designs. Create testplans for verification of new features and execute them by creating new test cases requiring application of Design & DFT skills; Report bugs/enhancements in tool. Collaborate with R&D and Product Engineering teams to review feature specifications, testplans & customer issues. Debug issues reported by customers and suggest/implement measures to plug the gaps.

Position Requirements

Candidate is expected to be:

• B.E. in Electronics/Electrical
• Strong in Digital electronics, Verilog
• Good understanding of DFT techniques and methodologies
• Familiarity with Test standards like 1149.1, 1500, 1687 is a plus
• Experience with Cadence Test or other Test tools is preferred
• Good scripting skills (Tcl, Perl)
• Strong analysis and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills are a must
• Keen & quick learner ready to learn new things with little guidance & take up challenging tasks

Education: B. Tech/BE/M. Tech / M.E.

This position is in Product Validation Team of Cadence Modus DFT Software Solution.

Modus is a DFT (Design for Testability) software tool from Cadence used by leading chip design companies during DFT synthesis & ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation) phase of chip design process.

We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.