DESCRIPTION

At Northrop Grumman, we have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way.
Northrop Grumman is looking for a DFT (Design for Test) engineer to join our highly qualified, diverse individuals as part of our ASIC design team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for DFT (Design for Testability) aspects of ASIC Design thorough understanding of digital design concepts
• Adhering to Northrop Grumman ASIC development process.
• Knowledgeable in VHDL, Verilog or System Verilog RTL coding and highly proficient in DFT methodologies.
• Responsible for operating in a team environment and collaborating across the different teams as required to accomplish the goals.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 8+ years’ experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, a Master’s degree with 6 years of experience
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Experience in full product life cycle of ASIC Design
• Experience with Cadence and/or Mentor test insertion and ATPG tools
• Experience with hierarchical scan testing, IEEE-1500 and/or IEEE-1687, test compression, JTAG IEEE-1149.1 and IEEE-1149.6 (AC JTAG)
• Experience with memory BIST and logic BIST
• Experience generating test patterns and analyzing and debugging test failures
• Experience working with test engineers to implement ATPG vectors on tester hardware
• Proficiency in HDL (VHDL/Verilog/System Verilog) and scripting languages such as Tcl, Python or Perl
• Effective communication and presentation skills and high proficiency in technical problem solving

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• Expertise of using Cadence Modus DFT tools
• Knowledge of Synthesis, P&R and Static Timing Analysis would be a plus

• Responsible for DFT (Design for Testability) aspects of ASIC Design thorough understanding of digital design concepts
• Adhering to Northrop Grumman ASIC development process.
• Knowledgeable in VHDL, Verilog or System Verilog RTL coding and highly proficient in DFT methodologies.
• Responsible for operating in a team environment and collaborating across the different teams as required to accomplish the goals