# Design for Test Lead at Neurophos

- Company: Neurophos
- What the company does: Neurophos develops photonic AI processing technology that focuses on hardware solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence inference by replacing traditional electronic compute elements with Optical Processing Units (OPUs). Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
- Company website: https://neurophos.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin, Texas
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $225K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neurophos/751850bb-1578-4d90-b04d-1916c6e9c92f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neurophos-design-for-test-lead/

## About the role

We're hiring a DFT Architect to own design-for-test for our electronic IC. You'll set the DFT strategy for the full chip, own coverage assessment and sign-off, and work with the RTL and physical design teams to build testability in from the start. This is our first dedicated DFT hire, so you'll define how test gets done here and grow the team that executes it, working directly with the analog team on their test requirements and owning the handoff into the post-silicon test program.

## What they're looking for

- 8 to 15 years in DFT, with hands-on ownership of scan, ATPG, and MBIST
- Architect-level experience on a large digital ASIC: you've assessed a full chip, set the DFT strategy, and owned coverage signoff
- Experience developing and specifying functional test vectors to augment structural coverage
- Track record through tapeout on a complex compute ASIC
- Analog test specification experience: defining what it takes to test analog circuits and working that out directly with the analog team
- Cadence toolchain experience

Tags: Engineering