Posted 2 months ago
DFT Engineer, Principal
@ Qualcomm Canada ULC
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Qualcomm Canada ULC is hiring a Principal DFT Engineer to join its central design-for-test methodology group. The role architects and automates RTL-centric DFT flows for company IPs, ASICs and SoCs, including scan insertion, ATPG and verification. The posting requires a bachelor's degree with 8+ years of hardware engineering experience, or equivalent graduate degrees with fewer years.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain DFT flows across all business units
- Architect RTL-centric shift-left DFT environment
- Write automated RTL for advanced DFT and DFD features
- Build scan insertion and ATPG retargeting flows
- Create verification test benches and timing constraints
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years hardware engineering experience (or graduate degree with fewer years)
- 10+ years of complex SoC design experience in RTL, DFT or FE
- Extensive experience with Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence DFT tools
- Strong Verilog, VHDL and SystemVerilog skills
- Knowledge of JTAG, iJTAG and BIST standards
- TCL and Python knowledge is an asset
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-16
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-07
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering |
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Qualcomm Canada ULC
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Company:
Qualcomm Canada ULCJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware EngineeringGeneral Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm DFT Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
What You'll Do
- Acting as a member of Qualcomm's central DFT methodology group responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting flows across all company business units and projects
- Architecting methodologies and flows for an integrated, RTL centric "shift left" DFT environment across company IPs, ASICs and SoC designs.
- Writing and automating RTL for advanced DFT and DFD features not currently supported by the EDA vendors
- Developing automated verification test bench and sequence creation for DFT IP. Architecting end-2-end verification solutions from static design checks, through formal and sequence-based verification.
- Building IP/block and SoC level scan insertion flows and scripting ATPG retargeting procedures. Creating automated QoR checks for implementation quality control.
- Writing static timing constraints, creating waivers and devising flows for bullet proof timing checks.
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What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering science, Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Science
- 10+ years of experience in complex SoC designs in RTL, DFT or FE capacity. Candidates with less experience may be considered for other senior technical roles.
- Vast experience with various DFT EDA tools from Siemens, SNPS and Cadence
- Good knowledge and understanding in Verilog/VHDL and SystemVerilog
- Exposure to CAD and automation. Good exposure for using de-Perl techniques in creating generic codes. Knowledge of TCL and Python is a plus.
- Extensively experienced with main DFT standards such as JTAG (1149.1/1149.6/1500), iJTAG (1687) and BIST techniques (memory BIST, logic BIST, interconnect BISTs)
- Track record in integrating custom made DFT logic for complex SoCs (System-On-Chip) and CoWoS (Chip-On-Wafer-On-Substrate) designs is highly desirable.
- Experience in SoC and IP/Block level scan insertion and ATPG, simulation of zero delay and SDF annotated test sequences.
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