Formal Verification Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

67d

About The Position

As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. Learn from the best Formal Verification team in the world and acquire experience being at the center of a System-on-a-chip (SoC) design verification effort collaborating with design. As a formal verification engineer working 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:

Requirements

• Hands on experience with VLSI and digital logic design and verification techniques or formal methods and their application to hardware, software, or systems
• Interest in learning and becoming an expert in SoC, CPU, GPU, or Cellular designs
• Detail oriented approach and desire to overcome challenges is required
• Formal Method or Formal Verification technologies knowledge is a plus
• Knowledge and experience in interpreting hardware specifications
• Temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA or PSL
• Experience in using EDA formal tools and tool development experience is plus
• Proficiency in any scripting language with excellent debugging skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Passionate about developing world-class/innovative formal verification solutions
• Exposure to CPU instruction-set architectures, memory consistency or cache coherence principles

Responsibilities

• Working with Apple Silicon's world-class Security Enclave design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification
• Developing comprehensive formal verification test plan that includes unique security requirement verification
• 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 modelling security attacks and proving robustness of 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

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees