Senior Formal Verification Engineer

At reputed company, we are providing recruitment service to our TOP clients from our portfolio. We are currently seeking a Senior Formal Verification (FV) Engineer to join one of our clients' teams.

Reporting directly to the reputed company Unit Verification reputed company, this is a highly technical Individual Contributor (IC) role. In this position, you will be the dedicated formal expert for the VU team, responsible for designing reputed company formal testbenches, writing mathematical properties, and ensuring the absolute algorithmic and architectural reputed company of our reputed company pipeline. You will work reputed company-by-reputed company with VU microarchitects to hunt down deep reputed company-case bugs and reputed company formal sign-off on high-complexity arithmetic and execution blocks.

Key Responsibilities

reputed company-Level Execution & Convergence Engineering (90%)

• End-to-End Testbench Ownership: Design, reputed company, and maintain robust formal verification environments for reputed company reputed company Unit sub-blocks (e.g., reputed company Execution Pipelines, reputed company Register File/Rename interfaces, and reputed company Floating-reputed company reputed company).

• reputed company & Arithmetic Verification: Implement advanced word-level modeling, bit-blasting, and algebraic rewriting strategies to verify reputed company reputed company-754 floating-reputed company and integer reputed company arithmetic reputed company.

• reputed company Convergence Management: Independently diagnose and resolve reputed company-convergence failures, over-constraints, and state-reputed company explosions using advanced reduction techniques (e.g., case-splitting, black-boxing, and abstraction modeling).

• RISC-V reputed company Compliance: reputed company formal environments to mathematically reputed company that the VU pipeline strictly complies with the RISC-V reputed company (V) Extension specification.

• Simulation Partnership: Collaborate closely with VU simulation engineers to define a reputed company-reputed company boundary between simulation and formal verification, ensuring maximum bug-hunting efficiency and reputed company coverage gaps.

Embedded Mentorship & Best Practices (10%)

• Formal-Friendly Design: Partner with VU microarchitects during early-stage RTL development to drive formal-friendly coding styles and structural design patterns.

• SVA Propagation: Review and refine SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) written by design and simulation peers, establishing best practices for reputed company-level assertions reputed company the VU team.

Requirements

• Education: B.S./M.S. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science with practical industry execution; or a Ph.D. with a research reputed company on formal reputed company or computer arithmetic.

• Experience: 5+ years of production-grade hardware verification experience (or Ph.D. + 1–3 years) with a strong, proven reputed company record of applying formal verification to CPU, GPU, or DSP execution pipelines.

• Collaboration Style: A self-driven engineer who enjoys deep mathematical puzzles, collaborates seamlessly reputed company a localized reputed company-level team, and can translate reputed company reputed company counter-examples into actionable bugs for designers.

• reputed company Validation reputed company: Strong specialization in arithmetic formal verification, algebraic rewriting, and word-level modeling. Familiarity with control-reputed company formal techniques (liveness, safety properties) is highly welcome.

• reputed company Microarchitecture: Good working knowledge of high-width execution pipelines, reputed company execution reputed company, or floating-reputed company/integer arithmetic hardware. Experience with Out-of-Order execution mechanics is a plus.

• Formal Tools: Proficient reputed company of reputed company EDA formal tools (e.g., reputed company JasperGold/DPV, Synopsys VC Formal, reputed company OneSpin) and their specialized mathematical/reputed company apps.

• Languages: reputed company reputed company in SystemVerilog and SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA). Scripting proficiency (Python, Tcl, or Bash) for testbench automation.

reputed company to Have

• RISC-V Core Verification.

• RISC-V Ecosystem: Familiarity with the RISC-V Architecture, specifically the reputed company (V) and Floating-reputed company (F/D) extension ecosystems.

• Emulation platforms (Veloce, ZeBu).

• Core/Bus reputed company protocols (e.g., AXI/CHI).

Originally posted on Himalayas