Senior ASIC Post-Silicon DFT Lead

Cisco; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Silicon One team is seeking a Senior ASIC Post-Silicon DFT Lead to guide post-silicon bring-up to production. You will collaborate with Reliability, Board, package, and test teams to define DFT requirements early in design and help craft next-generation networking chips.

You will lead the post-silicon validation effort across engineering disciplines and drive process improvements to scale from bring-up to high-volume production, shaping Cisco's AI-era silicon strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical or Computer Engineering with at least 12 years of experience.
• Experience in post-silicon validation, hardware bring-up, yield/reliability learnings, ramp acceleration, FA efficiency, and production scalability.
• Experience with DFT and post-silicon validation from bring-up to high-volume production.
• Experience with gate-level simulation (VCS) and other simulators.
• Post-silicon validation and debug; ability to work with ATE patterns, P1687.

Responsibilities

• Lead post-silicon bring-up to production roadmap and drive DFT requirements early in the design cycle.
• Collaborate with post-silicon product engineering, Reliability, Board, package, functional test and system teams.
• Craft next generation networking chips and drive post-silicon processes through production.

Skills

Post-silicon validation

Hardware bring-up

DFT collaboration

Gate level simulation

Education

Electrical or Computer Engineering (Bachelors/Master's)

Tools

Verilog

DFT CAD tools

STA (Timing Analysis)

Job description

Cisco's Silicon One team is seeking a Senior ASIC Post-Silicon DFT Lead to guide post-silicon bring-up to production. You will collaborate with Reliability, Board, package, and test teams to define DFT requirements early in design and help craft next-generation networking chips.

You will lead the post-silicon validation effort across engineering disciplines and drive process improvements to scale from bring-up to high-volume production, shaping Cisco's AI-era silicon strategy.