# Design for Test (DFT) Engineer, Principal at Positron AI

- Company: Positron AI
- What the company does: About Positron AI Positron AI specializes in developing custom hardware systems to accelerate AI inference. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.positron.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote (United States)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/positron/jobs/046ea495-de9e-4ef9-8019-c54c935e7a52
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/positron-ai-design-for-test-dft-engineer-principal/

## About the role

Positron AI is building next-generation AI inference accelerators, starting with our first ASIC, Asimov, with additional generations already underway. As Principal DFT Engineer, you'll own DFT and DFx strategy end-to-end: defining the DFT architecture for our accelerators, integrating it into internal RTL and third-party IP, driving implementation with our backend design partner, and ensuring high-quality silicon bring-up through comprehensive pre-silicon validation.

## What they're looking for

- Define and maintain the DFT architecture for Asimov and future ASIC generations
- Develop long-term DFT and DFx roadmaps aligned with product quality, manufacturing, yield, diagnostics, and reliability objectives
- Establish DFT design standards, review processes, signoff criteria, and best practices across the engineering organization
- Architect and implement scan insertion, compression, ATPG, memory BIST, logic BIST (where appropriate), boundary scan / IEEE 1149.x, IJTAG / IEEE 1687 infrastructure, and debug/observability features
- Integrate DFT into internally developed RTL
- Evaluate and integrate DFT capabilities from third-party IP providers

Tags: Engineering