Hi All,

Greetings from HCL Tech.

We are Hiring: DFT Practice Director

Location: Bengaluru.

Job Summary

Lead and scale the organization's Design-for-Test (DFT/DFx) competency across all semiconductor engagements, including SoC Turnkey Programs, Managed Services, Outcome-Based Projects, and T&M; engagements.

The role owns the overall DFT capability strategy, technical roadmap, resource pyramid, competency development, delivery excellence, customer confidence, and business growth while ensuring the organization remains competitive in advanced-node and next-generation semiconductor technologies

1. Capability Strategy & Organizational Leadership

· Define the long-term DFT/DFx capability vision aligned with business growth objectives.

· Build and manage a world-class DFT organization across geographies.

· Develop competency roadmaps covering:

· Scan

· ATPG

· MBIST

· LBIST

· IJTAG

· SSN

· Functional Safety

· DFX Validation

· Silicon Debug

· Yield Enhancement

· Advanced Packaging Test

· Chiplet Test Methodologies

· Establish Centers of Excellence (CoE) for emerging technologies.

· Drive annual capability investment plans.

2. Turnkey Program Governance

Serve as the DFT executive owner across multiple turnkey programs.

Responsibilities

· Participate in program qualification reviews.

· Support effort estimation and technical due diligence.

· Review DFT architecture and execution strategies.

· Govern delivery health across programs.

· Intervene in critical technical escalations.

· Drive milestone and sign-off reviews.

· Track delivery metrics across all turnkey programs.

Accountable For

· Tapeout success

· DFT quality

· Coverage achievement

· Program predictability

· Customer satisfaction

3. Technical Authority and Solution Leadership

· Act as the highest technical escalation point for DFT.

· Review complex SoC DFT architectures.





· Define reusable methodologies and best practices.

· Approve enterprise-wide DFT signoff guidelines.

· Drive adoption of new DFT technologies.

· Evaluate emerging EDA tools and methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

Typical Areas

· Advanced Scan Architectures

· Test Compression

· LBIST

· Safety Diagnostics

· Automotive DFT

· Chiplet Testing

· Heterogeneous Integration

· Silicon Lifecycle Management

4. Business Growth & Pre-Sales

Partner with sales, account, and practice leadership teams.

Responsibilities

· Participate in customer workshops and executive discussions.

· Support RFI/RFP responses.

· Create DFT service offerings.

· Build differentiated DFT value propositions.

· Develop turnkey execution models.

Ownership

· DFT revenue growth

· Current logo opportunities

· Capability-led opportunities

· Account mining initiatives

· Managed services expansion

5. Workforce & Resource Management

Own competency health across all engagements.

Responsibilities

· Workforce planning.

· Demand forecasting.

· Bench management.

· Leadership pipeline creation.

· Skill inventory management.

· Strategic hiring.

Typical Talent Categories

· Architects

· SMEs

· Technical Leads

· Senior Engineers

· Freshers

· Contractors

Success Measures

· Billability

· Utilization

· Pyramid health

· Lead-to-engineer ratio

· Fulfillment efficiency

6. Competency Development & Training

Drive continuous skill development.

Establish Learning Programs For

· DFT Fundamentals

· Advanced ATPG

· MBIST Architecture





· Functional Safety

· Automotive DFT

· IJTAG

· Silicon Debug

· DFX Verification

· Post Silicon Validation

Section Title: Skill Requirements

Skill Requirements

Leadership Expectations

· Develop future architects.

· Create certification frameworks.

· Establish mentoring programs.

· Drive technical communities and guilds.

7. Delivery Excellence & Quality

Define and institutionalize DFT delivery standards.

Create Frameworks For

· DFT Design Reviews

· DFT Architecture Reviews

· Signoff Checklists

· Metrics Dashboards

· Quality Gates

· Audit Mechanisms

Drive

· Reuse frameworks

· Automation

· Productivity improvements

· Coverage closure methodologies

· Root cause analysis

8. Customer & Executive Stakeholder Management

Interface directly with:

External

· Customer VP Engineering

· Design Directors

· SoC Architects

· Test Engineering Teams

Internal

· Practice Heads

· Delivery Heads

· Program Directors

· Capability Leaders

· Sales Leaders

Act as the face of the DFT organization for strategic accounts.

9. Innovation & Differentiation

Drive strategic investments in:

· AI-assisted DFT flows

· DFT automation

· Coverage analytics

· Silicon diagnosis automation

· Test cost optimization

· Digital engineering accelerators

Build reusable IPs and frameworks that improve project productivity and margins.

P&L; and Business Accountability The Capability Head should typically be responsible for:

· Competency Revenue

· Utilization

· Gross Margin Improvement

· Fulfillment Metrics

· Hiring Targets

· Training ROI

· Customer Satisfaction

· Delivery Quality

· Attrition Control

· Leadership Development

Interested Engineers ping me or send invitation to connect further.

Email id: [email protected]

Mobile: +91 (phone hidden).

📌 Practice Director - DFT (Bengaluru)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Bengaluru