At Synopsys, you will work with customers who are building the chips that power everything, and the diagnosis work you do will directly determine whether those chips make it to market.
What You'll Be Doing
Drive customer engagements on scan diagnosis, chain diagnosis, and Memory BIST failure analysis using Synopsys Yield Explorer and related diagnosis workflows
Support post-silicon debug activities for high-volume manufacturing customers, performing root-cause analysis on scan, chain, and embedded memory failures
Interpret diagnosis reports, build defect pareto analysis, and deliver actionable recommendations that drive yield improvement and time-to-market
Manage technical escalations from customer DFT, product engineering, and yield teams, driving issues to closure across Synopsys R&D, support, and field organizations
Collaborate cross-functionally with internal DFT architects, ATPG developers, and product engineering teams to refine diagnosis methodologies and improve customer outcomes
Build and deliver volume diagnosis workflows that scale across wafer-level test data, enabling systematic yield learning for customers ramping complex SoCs
Present technical findings and yield improvement strategies to customer stakeholders ranging from bench engineers to executive leadership
The Impact You Will Have
Your diagnosis work will directly determine whether a customer's chip moves from debug to production, often saving months of schedule and millions in re-spins
The yield learning methodologies you deploy will enable systematic defect reduction across high-volume manufacturing lines, improving profitability and time-to-market for tier-1 semiconductor companies
Your ability to translate complex diagnosis data into clear action will help customers make better decisions about design-for-test architecture, process changes, and test coverage
The escalations you resolve will strengthen customer trust in Synopsys tooling and position the company as a true partner in their silicon success
The workflows and best practices you establish will be reused across multiple customer engagements, scaling your impact beyond individual projects
Your collaboration with R&D will shape the next generation of diagnosis capabilities in Yield Explorer and related Synopsys DFT products
The technical relationships you build will open doors for deeper engagements across DFT, test, and yield engineering at strategic accounts
What You'll Need
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, VLSI, or related field
6+ years of hands-on experience in semiconductor diagnosis, DFT, yield engineering, product engineering, or silicon validation
Deep expertise in scan diagnosis, chain diagnosis, and failure localization methodologies
Strong working knowledge of volume diagnosis for scan and Memory BIST, including defect pareto analysis and yield learning workflows
Hands-on experience with Synopsys Yield Explorer and diagnosis tool workflows
Solid understanding of DFT fundamentals including ATPG, scan compression, scan architecture, and Memory BIST
Experience debugging SRAM and embedded memory failures in post-silicon or high-volume manufacturing contexts is a strong plus
Who You Are
You can walk into a room full of stressed product engineers staring at a failing wafer lot and within an hour have a plan that everyone believes in
You do not need a perfect dataset to start diagnosing, you work with what you have, ask the right questions, and know when to escalate versus when to dig deeper yourself
You can explain a complex scan diagnosis result to a customer's executive team in two minutes without losing the technical nuance that matters
You are organized enough to manage three live customer escalations, two yield studies, and an internal R&D collaboration without dropping threads
You push back when a customer request does not make technical sense, and you do it in a way that builds trust rather than friction
You treat every engagement like it matters because you know that your diagnosis work is often the last line of defense before a chip is scrapped or a product is delayed
The Team You'll Be Part Of
Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
