Description

Description

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: - 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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