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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

DFT Engineer - Hardware Engineering

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToronto, ON, CanadaIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or a related field and at least 2 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience; alternatively, a master's degree in those fields and at least 1 year of related experience; alternatively, a PhD in those fields.
  • Experience deploying agentic artificial intelligence tools for optimizing semiconductor workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute end-to-end design-for-test (DFT) strategy, including scan, boundary scan/JTAG, and memory/logic built-in self-test (BIST).
  • Perform register-transfer-level (RTL) insertion and verification.
  • Use automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) industry tools to produce test patterns for stuck-at, at-speed, and path-delay faults; use scan compression and scan data streaming to maximize test coverage and reduce test time.
  • Design and implement memory built-in self-test (MBIST) and logic built-in self-test (LBIST) architecture in RTL.
  • Collaborate with physical design teams to resolve DFT-related timing violations.
  • Perform gate-level timing- and power-aware simulations.
  • Partner with test engineers to bring up initial silicon.
  • Diagnose and resolve failing patterns and drive yield improvements.
  • Write and maintain scripts to automate DFT insertion and verification flows.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, CA
Founded
1985

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