Digital Design Engineer, DFT - TX, Dallas, Tollway, United States
Digital Design & SoC Architecture
Originally posted 5 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves the design, architecture, and implementation of DFT for ASIC/SoC products.
What you'll do
- Support various product lines for DFT insertion.
- Support various product lines for High Coverage, Low Power, Low Test Time scan patterns.
- Perform Pre/Post silicon verification and debug.
What you'll need
- Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar.
- 2 years of directly related experience in ASIC/SoC DFT.
- Good understanding of DFT architecture and planning.
- Hands-on scan insertion and ATPG Tool experience.
- Hands-on experience with DFT Compression Insertion and On-Chip Clock Control Insertion.
- Hands-on experience with Gate-level simulation with zero delay and SDF.
- Good understanding of Failure Analysis.
- Scripting experience with Perl, Python, or Tcl.
Nice to have
- Experience with Tessent DFT tools.
- Good understanding of IEEE 1149 and JTAG.
- Experience with LBIST and MBIST.
- Experience with advanced DFT technologies like low power, SSN, and Fault Grading.
Market context
This role has been open 4 days — well below the 62-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1010
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Analog Devices | All employers we track in this specialty (1010 roles · 97 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 50 | 1010 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 100 | 3183 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 62 d (−22 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 143 open roles · median 60 d
- Synopsys · 82 open roles · median 24 d
- AMD · 73 open roles · median 35 d
- Analog Devices (this employer) · 48 open roles · median 40 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 48 open roles · median 77 d
- NVIDIA · 45 open roles · median 63 d
How we counted: 1010 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 97 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.