Product Development Engineer

About the role

The Manufacturing Content Development Engineering Group at Altera is responsible for architecting, developing, validating, and productizing high-quality manufacturing test content for FPGAs to screen out any manufacturing defects and guarantee the highest quality of outgoing parts to customers.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing test content development for FPGA Reset and Configuration architectures, including Secure Device Manager (SDM), configuration interfaces, reset controllers, boot flows, and related infrastructure IPs.
• Develop and implement DFT strategies utilizing Scan, ATPG, MBIST, IJTAG, and functional test methodologies to maximize fault coverage.
• Perform pre-silicon test pattern simulation and validation to ensure test effectiveness prior to tape-out.
• Collaborate with RTL, DFT, and Design Verification teams to ensure robust testability features are implemented early in the design cycle.
• Analyze test results, debug silicon failures, and provide root cause analysis.
• Work with manufacturing and test teams to optimize test time, cost, and quality.
• Analyze early customer returns with emphasis on driving test hole closure activities.
• Drive test time reduction through analysis of fallout data versus test time for various IPs to balance and drive overall product cost optimizations.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging DFT/test technologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field (or other related engineering degree)
• With 5+ years of industry experience in the following:
• IC design and IC test.
• Experience with FPGA Reset, Configuration, SDM, or DFX architectures.
• Experience in DFT methodologies such as scan chains, Memory BIST, ATPG, boundary scan, test compression, IJTAG and JTAG networks.
• Experience with RTL design, synthesis, and verification flows.
• Experience with fault grading, test time analysis, test coverage analysis, and test yield enhancement.
• Scripting skills in Python, Perl, TCL, or similar.
• Semiconductor manufacturing test processes.
• Digital and analog circuit fundamentals.