Senior DFT Engineer — Post-Silicon Enablement & Analysis

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior DFT Engineer - Post-Silicon to push DFT capabilities beyond basic implementation, tying silicon behavior, test data, and product learning into robust, production-ready solutions for NVIDIA’s advanced chips.

The role spans silicon bring-up through production ramp, requiring strong data-driven analysis, cross-team collaboration, and an ability to influence architecture with measurable post-silicon requirements. NVIDIA emphasizes equity, benefits, and hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• BSEE (or equivalent) with 8+ years or MS with 6+ years in a related field.
• Solid understanding of DFT concepts, silicon test, and post-silicon behavior.
• Experience with silicon bring-up, debug, validation, or production test.
• Ability to analyze complex datasets and identify trends to support decisions.
• Familiarity with automated test environments and test-program flows.
• Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive post-silicon enablement of DFT capabilities from initial silicon bring-up through production ramp.
• Develop data-driven approaches to analyze test results and yield behavior.
• Influence DFT architecture by communicating post-silicon requirements early with clear metrics.
• Define and improve methodologies for silicon bring-up, failure analysis, test-content validation, and production deployment.
• Help productize new DFT capabilities with scalable flows, validation criteria, debug procedures, and documentation.
• Contribute to modeling and analysis that supports test-time optimization, quality improvement, yield learning, test power.
• Partner across design, product development, and test teams to align pre-silicon trade-offs with post-silicon execution.

Skills

DFT concepts

Silicon test

Test content validation

Production test

Data-driven analysis

Automated test environments

Statistical analysis

Cross-team communication

Education

BSEE or MS in related field

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior DFT Engineer - Post-Silicon to push DFT capabilities beyond basic implementation, tying silicon behavior, test data, and product learning into robust, production-ready solutions for NVIDIA’s advanced chips.

The role spans silicon bring-up through production ramp, requiring strong data-driven analysis, cross-team collaboration, and an ability to influence architecture with measurable post-silicon requirements. NVIDIA emphasizes equity, benefits, and hybrid work options.