Sr. DFT Design Engineer, AWS Machine Learning Acceleration
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on May 1, 2026. Amazon scores A on the Alion truth index.
Custom SoCs (System on Chip) are at the heart of AWS Machine Learning servers. As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team, you'll be responsible for designing and optimizing hardware in our data centers, including AWS Inferentia and Trainium systems-our custom-designed machine learning inference and training servers. Our success depends on world-class server infrastructure as we handle massive scale and rapidly integrate emerging technologies. We're looking for a Sr. DFT Design Engineer to help us trailblaze new technologies and architectures while ensuring high design quality and making the right trade-offs.
Key job responsibilities
- Define and develop state-of-the-art Design for Test (DFT) architectures for advanced technology nodes
- Work closely with block designers and physical design (PD) team to implement highly efficient DFT solutions
- Act as the primary point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders (PD, Architecture, and Product Engineering) to align schedules and goals
- Mentor and develop junior engineers through code reviews, methodology training, and technical guidance
- Manage project timelines and deliverables, ensuring high-quality DFT implementation from RTL through Silicon bring-up
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of practical semiconductor ASIC design work including owning end to end design of major SOC blocks experience
- Knowledge about industry standard tools and practices in DFT, including ATPG, JTAG, MBIST and trade-offs between test quality and test time
- Experience with automation script development
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- Experience in RTL coding and debug, as well as performance, power, area analysis and trade-offs
- Experience with modern ASIC/FPGA design and verification tools
- Experience with SOC bring-up and post-silicon validation
- MS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- Experience with gate-level testing and multi-clock design practices (CDC)
- Good breadth of knowledge in chip design from micro-architecture through physical design
- Good knowledge of design verification (DV) simulation methodologies
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Perl, Python or Tcl
- Experience with industry standard DFT/SCAN/ATPG tools
- Experience with STA constraints development and analysis for DFT modes
- Practical experience with silicon debug
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USA, TX, Austin - 185,200.00 - 250,000.00 USD annually