As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.
We are seeking highly motivated DFT engineer to be part of Hardware team. Join a great team of engineering professionals who are involved in development, validation, and delivery of DFT patterns for IBM’s chip design team.
As a member of DFT team you will be required but not restricted to pattern generation, simulation, validation, characterization, delivery to TAE, IBM’s Hardware Bring-up and Silicon Debug. You will play a key role in silicon bring-up, workload execution and validation.
- Proficiency in C and Python for validation and automation
- Hands on experiencec in Writing/ maintaining test programs and automation scripts using C and Python
- Experience in chip bring-up /debug
- Experience in chip-level throttling issues including power, thermal, and frequency-related behavior
- Knowledge on Analyzing trace data/logs and on-chip debug outputs for failure root cause
- Should be able to Interpret Verilog RTL to support functional and performance debug
- Collaborate with RTL, firmware, validation, and DFT teams for end-to-end issue resolution
- Strong understanding of chip boot flows and bring-up sequences
- Familiarity with assembly-level debugging on RISC/V, ARM, or other architectures
- Ability to read and debug Verilog RTL code
- In depth understanding of chip internals, including resets, clocking, and register programming
- Experience in post-silicon validation, emulation or pre-silicon environments
- Exposure to firmware-hardware interactions
- Knowledge of debug infrastructure and on-chip monitoring tools
- Familiarity with version control tools like Git