DFT Intern

About the role

We are seeking a DFT Intern to join our team at Etched. The ideal candidate will help automate DFT flow to support chip-level regression on Caelius. This role involves working across frontend and backend design teams, contributing to DFT verification including MBIST, Scan, BSCAN, and SSN simulations, and developing flows for various ATPG fault models.

Responsibilities

• Help review and refine DFT flow automation to support chip-level regression on Caelius
• Contribute to DFT verification (MBIST, Scan, BSCAN, SSN simulations)
• Develop flows for various ATPG fault models

Requirements

• Progress towards a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field
• Familiarity with a hardware description language (Verilog or SystemVerilog)
• Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts
• Familiarity with digital logic design fundamentals
• Familiarity with standard ASIC design flow steps (synthesis, STA, DFT)
• Familiarity with scripting in Python, Tcl, or another language

Qualifications

• Able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence
• Strong candidates may also have experience with:
• Knowledge of DFT concepts such as MBIST, scan insertion, and scan compression
• Experience with Tessent or similar DFT tooling
• Familiarity with ATPG fault models (SAF, TDF, BDF, IDDQ, PDF)
• Exposure to DFT flow automation or regression infrastructure
• Familiarity with clocking and reset schemes

Skills

• None specified

Benefits

• 12-week paid internship
• Generous housing support for those relocating
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Based at our office in San Jose, CA
• CADirect mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers
• Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time

Pay

• TBD

Schedule

• TBD

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact internships@etched.com.

How We’re Different

We are Etched, building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.