Senior SLT Test Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced System Level Test Engineer to join our Product Test and Diagnosis Department (PTD) to contribute to the development and deployment of System Level Test (SLT) solutions for AI processors.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain SLT test content, automation, diagnostics, and characterization workloads for silicon bring-up and manufacturing readiness activities.
- Execute characterization, voltage/frequency margining, reliability screening, and performance correlation activities while analyzing results.
- Support development and deployment of SLT hardware including test boards, sockets, instrumentation, and thermal solutions.
- Integrate validation and bring-up workloads into the SLT environment and support development of manufacturing screening solutions.
- Debug failures, perform root-cause analysis, and support correlation activities across Simulation, ATE, Bench, SLT, and manufacturing environments.
- Develop software tools, scripts, and automation flows for test execution, telemetry collection, data analysis, and reporting.
What you'll need
- Experience in semiconductor test, validation, characterization, post-silicon bring-up, or manufacturing environments.
- Understanding of semiconductor fundamentals, digital systems, power delivery, signal integrity, and board-level debugging.
- Familiarity with DFT concepts including scan, JTAG, BIST, MBIST, boundary scan, and manufacturing test methodologies.
- Experience with Python, Tcl, Shell, or similar scripting languages for automation and data analysis.
- Strong debug, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and data interpretation skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including Design, DFT, Validation, Product Engineering, or Manufacturing.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with advanced packaging, chiplets, or high-performance computing products.
- Experience with manufacturing test
This role has been open 12 days — well below the 31-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
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Open roles in category
550
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Median days open
31 d
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Median salary
$173k
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| Metric | Graphcore | All employers we track in this specialty (550 roles · 78 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 550 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 44 | 2219 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 31 d (−12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $173k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 75 open roles · median 25 d
- Renesas Electronics · 43 open roles · median 25 d
- Infineon Technologies · 41 open roles · median 41 d
- Micron Technology · 29 open roles · median 35 d
- Qualcomm · 28 open roles · median 31 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 26 d
How we counted: 550 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 78 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.