PHY DFx Micro Architect (Mixed Signal Logic Design Engineer)

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated IO DFx Architect/Lead to join our team and lead the Design for Excellence (DFx) efforts for Physical Layer (PHY) interfaces in next-generation PHY. As a PHY DFx Architect/Lead, you will be responsible for driving DFx principles, including Design for Test (DFT), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Debug (DFD), into the development of complex PHY designs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that PHY designs are optimized for quality, performance, reliability, and ease of integration into systems, while reducing time to market and ensuring manufacturability.
In this leadership role, you will guide the team in the application of best practices in DFx and contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and methodologies, helping to deliver world-class PHY products.
Lead the DFx (Design for Excellence) activities for Physical Layer (PHY) interfaces, ensuring designs are optimized for testability, manufacturability, debugging, and reliability.

Understand IP and SOC architecture spec and define DFx requirements. Work with SOC and adjacent IP architects in ensuring DFX compliance across IP boundaries and SOC level DPM/coverage targets.
Hands on coding of DFx features and flow clean up
Collaborate with hardware design, verification, and manufacturing teams to define and implement DFx methodologies that improve design quality, reduce cost, and accelerate time to market.
Oversee the integration of Design for Test (DFT), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Debug (DFD) techniques in PHY design processes to ensure the ease of testing, manufacturability, and post-silicon debugging.
Collaborate with Validation Architect to develop and implement comprehensive test and validation strategies to ensure that PHY systems meet industry standards (e.g., JEDEC, IEEE, PHY compliance) ,customer requirements, regulatory requirements, and industry certifications..
Enable debug features on silicon to ensure smooth debuggability
Drive PHY DFx changes and improvements based on feedback from production, test, and field data, working closely with manufacturing teams to ensure smooth transition from design to production.
Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging test and debug technologies, and best practices, and incorporate them into design practices.
Define and implement scan-based testing, boundary scan, and other DFT strategies to ensure that the PHY designs are fully testable and meet production-level testing requirements.
Work with cross-functional teams to establish best practices for DFM to ensure that the PHY design is cost-effective and manufacturable at scale, minimizing yield loss and improving manufacturing efficiency.
Promote and implement Design for Debug (DFD) techniques, ensuring that designs have appropriate debug hooks and are easy to troubleshoot both pre-silicon and post-silicon.
Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior engineers in the areas of DFx methodologies and best practices.
Drive collaboration between design, verification, and test teams to integrate DFx strategies into the overall development flow.
Provide regular reports and updates to management on the progress of DFx initiatives, including key performance metrics and any challenges encountered.
Drive problem solving and come up with innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
• Master of Science (or a Master of Technology) degree in Electrical Engineering with more than 10 years of relevant industry experience or a Bachelor of Science (Bachelor of Technology) degree in Electrical Engineering with more than 12 years of relevant industry experience.
• Hands on experience in IP DFx RTL development, timing closure, and flows
• Working knowledge of RTL coding in Verilog/System Verilog and Debug in OVM/UVM based verification environment
• Experience in DFx features such as Structural Scan, BSCAN, MBIST, JTAG etc.
• Good understanding of industry standard DFx flows and compliance methodologies like DUVM, BSDL, ATPG, and GLS

Preferred:-

• To have Mixed Signal IP DFx experience and/or IO DFx experience and/or post-silicon experience
• Preferred to have exposure in one/more of interface IPs like DDR/LPDDR/UCIe/HBM
• Preferred to have experience in driving small team of junior engineers and task forces.
• Need to be a key team player, while being highly energetic and motivated, independent, and self-driven.

Inside this Business Group

In the Design Engineering Group (DEG), we take pride in developing the best-in-class SOCs, Cores, and IPs that power Intel’s products. From development, to integration, validation, and manufacturing readiness, our mission is to deliver leadership products through the pursuit of Moore’s Law and groundbreaking innovations.  DEG is Intel’s engineering group, supplying silicon to business units as well as other engineering teams.  As a critical provider of all Intel products, DEG leadership has a responsibility to ensure the delivery of these products in a cost efficient and effective manner.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.


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Working Model

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.