Careers: Design for Test Engineer
Swindon, UK or Nabern/Germering (near Munich), Germany
Manager: DfT Manager Location: Swindon, Nabern, Munich
Role Definition: • Achieve lowest possible test cost (minimise test time and silicon overhead) while maintaining required quality level. • Develop BIST, BOST and ATE based testing concepts for above given goal • Provide a DfT specification describing the test concepts and specifying the implementation (digital and analogue). • Follow the industry state-of-the-art methodologies of testing, apply and develop them further, invent! • Training of colleagues on Design-for-Test techniques
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Hold DfT workshop with design and test team, specification of DfT and test approaches
• Develop mixed-signal DfT blocks
• Generation of test pattern
• Verification of test modes and test pattern prior tapeout
• Hold peer reviews
• Validation of test modes in the lab or on ATE
• Carry out test experiments to validate new test methods, report on results
• Act as a primary interface between Design and Test Engineering
• Propose patent applications as soon as they become evident.
Key Candidate Attributes:
Essential -
• Engineering degree in microelectronics.
• Experience in one of the fields below and a good understanding of the others
o Analogue design with emphasis on yield and producibility
o Memory and digital DfT, insertion of test structures and automatic test pattern generation
o ATE and test engineering of mixed-signal ICs
• Willingness to cross over knowledge and experience domains
• Command of verbal and written English
• Willingness to travel
Desirable -
• Exposure to production test related engineering challenges
• Published results (patents, conference papers)
Behavioural Competencies / Performance Drivers: Personal attributes candidates should possess. • Analytical way of thinking • Ability and will to communicate concepts in a convincing manner incl. written documentation • Ability to assert self while maintaining a cooperative environment within the design team. • Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule pressures • Looks for continuous improvement in own and Dialog work practices
If you feel you have the experience and enthusiasm to join us at this exciting time in our development, then please send us your CV or resume by e-mail, stating the position you wish to apply for, and your current salary to: Rachel Dainton, Worldwide HR Director at jobs@diasemi.com - or you can send your CV to ‘Human Resources Department’ at any of our Office addresses.