Formal Verification Engineer

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Do you have experience being at the center of a System-on-a-chip (SoC) design verification effort collaborating with design? Are you passionate about changing the world? We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles.

Description: As a formal verification architect leading the complete formal verification for single or multiple design blocks and IP’s (CPU, Cellular and Connectivity IP, Audio and Image Processing IP, Neural Networks IP, Memory/DMA Controller, Security IP, Peripheral IP, Interconnects, Power management subsystems, etc.), you will be responsible for:

• Working with Apple's world-class design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification.
• Formalizing the refinement from architecture to micro-architecture.
• Developing comprehensive formal verification test plan.
• Proving properties of the design, finding design bugs, and working closely with design teams to help improve the micro-architecture.
• Crafting novel and creative solutions for verifying complex design micro-architectures.
• Developing and implementing re-usable and optimized formal models and verification code base.
• Architecting correct-by-construction design methodologies for improved formal verification efficiency and productivity.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Hands on experience with VLSI and digital logic design and verification techniques.
• Advanced knowledge of SoC, CPU, GPU, or Cellular designs.
• Developed formal property proofs on industrial strength designs and architectures.
• Deep understanding of pipeline architectures, memory/DMA controllers, out-of-order and speculative instruction execution hardware, bus interconnects, and cache coherence mechanisms.
• Confirmed understanding of formal verification technologies/abstraction techniques.
• Knowledge and experience in interpreting hardware specifications and using temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA or PSL.
• Experience in using EDA formal tools and tool development experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in any scripting language with excellent debugging skills.
• Extraordinary teammate with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Passionate about developing world-class/innovative formal verification solutions.
• Understanding of application processors (CPU/GPU), their Instruction Set Architectures (ISA), Memory Consistency Models (MCM) or Cache Coherence protocols is desirable but not necessary.
• Exposure to ARM type architectures is desirable but not necessary.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience in interpreting hardware specifications and using temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA or PSL.
• BS / MS / Ph.D in EE or CS is required.

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