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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Design for Test (DFT) Engineer - **Company:** Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories - **Location:** Boise, ID, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $84,200.0 - $124,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Code Coverage, Computer Programming, Digital Electronics, Firmware, Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards), Python (Programming Language), Test Data, Strategies of Testing, Ripple (payment Protocol) - **Published:** September 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59709177-design-for-test-dft-engineer ## About the Role * You have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering Technology, or equivalent * You have several years of hands-on experience in electronics test development, board-level design, or a closely related discipline * You have a deep understanding of analog and digital electronics, schematics, and board-level design * You have influenced design decisions before and can carry an argument on technical merit with people who own the design * You can hold both perspectives-what the designer needs and what the factory needs-and find solutions that serve both * You care about quality and build it in from the start rather than inspect it in at the end Even Better If * You have direct experience with DFT practices, test coverage analysis, or design-for-manufacturability in electronics * You have hands-on experience with boundary scan/JTAG, built-in self-test, or in-circuit test (ICT) and functional test development * You have worked with flying probe, bed-of-nails, or functional test systems and understand what makes a board easy-or hard-to test * You have knowledge of power systems protection products * You have exposure to programming (Python, C, or similar) * You have a background in firmware development for embedded test or self-test applications ## Description We are hiring experienced Design for Test (DFT) Engineers in Boise, ID. You will be embedded with our R&D product design engineers, shaping how our next generation of products is built so manufacturability and testability are built in from the start. This role is about supporting Manufacturing; you are Manufacturing's advocate inside product design, ensuring every product is designed to be tested and built reliably at scale. It is a role for engineers who have experience building and testing products and can partner closely with the design team and the manufacturing team. Why This Work Matters Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories exists to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. Our devices must respond to system faults within milliseconds-to ensure safety, avoid damage, and minimize outages. Hundreds of utilities and millions of industrial, commercial, and residential consumers depend on SEL products every day. Testability is not something you bolt on at the end-it is designed in. The best test coverage, the fastest fault isolation, and the smoothest ramp to production all start with decisions made during product design. As a DFT Engineer, you are the voice of test inside the design team, and that voice carries weight only when it is backed by experience. You will draw on a career of hands-on test and design work to ensure quality and manufacturability are considered from concept through release. W hat You Will Do The work is upstream, collaborative, and highly leveraged-the choices you influence during design ripple through every unit we build and every product we support in the field. You will sit with product design engineers, review schematics and layouts, and advocate for testability while the design is still on the bench. * Partner with R&D product design engineers throughout the design cycle, providing Design for Test guidance from concept through release to manufacturing * Review schematics, board layouts, and architectures to ensure test access, coverage, and fault isolation-test points, boundary scan/JTAG, built-in self-test, and diagnostic strategies * Develop and maintain DFT guidelines, standards, and design-rule checklists, and help design teams adopt them * Model and estimate test coverage early, identifying gaps before a board is ever fabricated * Serve as the bridge between R&D and our manufacturing test engineering teams, ensuring designs transition smoothly into production test systems * Collaborate on test strategy and requirements so that flying probe, bed-of-nails / in-circuit test (ICT), and functional test systems can be built efficiently for each new product * Assist with developing flying probe and bed-of-nails in-circuit test (ICT) programs for our SPEA 4080 and Keysight i3070 systems * Analyze field and production test data to close the loop-feeding lessons learned back into design practices and DFT standards * Evaluate and champion emerging DFT methods, tools, and technologies across the engineering organization Because you work at the design stage, your impact is broad and directly serves Manufacturing: you help ensure that products are right-testable, diagnosable, and manufacturable-so the factory can build them reliably, at volume, and with the coverage to catch defects early.