GPU Formal Verification Engineer FTC (12 month) in Bristol

This 12 month Fixed Term Contract is for our fast-growing GPU Hardware team. Our mission is to create through constant innovation the best-in-class GPU IP, for a wide range of market segments and applications.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to exercise your skills on cutting-edge designs, work on key building blocks for market-leading chips and deliver significant impact to the future success of our wider team.

You will:

• Be responsible for the delivery of formal verification activities related to a GPU component or sub-system from early stages of verification planning to sign-off.
• Design and implement formal verification strategies to achieve our design quality goals.
• Root-cause design issues in collaboration with other engineers.
• Research new formal verification techniques and continuously drive the scope of what can be achieved with formal verification.
• Create verification plans, develop and maintain formal methodology and complex benches.
• Track and report verification metrics and closure.
• Participate in all stages of design specification definition providing feedback from the verification perspective.
• Be responsible for the definition, effort estimation and tracking of your own work.
• Be able to influence and advance our GPU verification methodology.
• Have the opportunity to lead, coach and mentor other members of the team.
• Participate in design and verification reviews and recommend improvements.
• Contribute to team shared knowledge via open discussions and presentations.

About you

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you are an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You are curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You’ll have:

• Good knowledge on Formal Verification concepts, methodology and tools.
• Experience in deploying Formal Verification on complex micro-architectures.
• Ability to come up with bespoke techniques to drive exhaustive proofs and perform deep bug-hunting.
• Exposure to advanced Formal Verification techniques like abstractions, invariants, SEC, etc.
• Knowledge of complex standard bus protocols and relevant ABVIP integration.
• Working knowledge of ASIC design methodologies, flows and tools.
• Ability to plan, estimate and track your own work.

You might also have:

• Knowledge of GPU/CPU architecture.
• Knowledge of standard bus protocols (e.g., AMBA5 CHI, AMBA4 ACE or AXI).
• Experience in wider verification technologies (UVM, etc).
• Knowledge of a scripting language and/or C/SystemC.
• Understanding of functional safety standards such as ISO26262.

Who we are

Imagination is a UK-based company that creates silicon and software IP designed to give its customers an edge in competitive global technology markets. Its GPU and AI technologies enable outstanding power, performance, and area (PPA), fast time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership. Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their smartphones, cars, homes, and workplaces.

We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before.

So come join us if you’re wanting that something more. Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most exciting companies who are one of the leaders in semiconductor IP solutions. As a part of our team, you can help us transform, innovate, and inspire the lives of millions through our technology.

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