Formal Verification Engineer at Apple

Apple; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Apple München is seeking a Formal Verification Engineer to lead the complete formal verification for SOC blocks and IPs. This on-site role offers opportunities to work with world-class SOC and IP design teams and to craft verification strategies that improve quality and efficiency.

You will develop formal models, test plans, and proofs (SVA/PSL) for CPU, memory, interconnects, and other IPs, collaborating across hardware, software, and verification teams to deliver high-quality silicon.

Qualifikationen

• Advanced knowledge of SoC/CPU/GPU/Cellular designs, VLSI, and digital logic design and verification techniques.
• Developed formal property proofs on industrial strength designs.
• Understanding of pipeline architectures, memory/DMA controllers, and cache coherence.
• Interpreting hardware specs and using temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA or PSL.
• Experience with EDA formal tools and debugging skills.
• Proficiency in scripting with strong debugging abilities, plus English language proficiency.

Aufgaben

• Working with Apple's SOC and IP design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification.
• Developing comprehensive formal verification test plans.
• Proving properties of the design, finding design bugs, and collaborating with design teams to improve micro-architecture.
• Crafting novel and creative solutions for verifying complex design micro-architectures.
• Developing and implementing reusable formal models and verification code bases.
• Architecting correct-by-construction design methodologies for improved formal verification efficiency and productivity.

Kenntnisse

SoC verification

Formal verification

SVA/PSL

EDA tools

Scripting

English proficiency

Debugging

Ausbildung

EE or CS degree

Tools

EDA formal tools

Tool development

Jobbeschreibung

Formal Verification Engineer at Apple in München, BY, DE. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products powered by Apple Silicon. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. 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 SOC and IP design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS / MS / Ph.D in EE or CS is required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of SoC/CPU/GPU/Cellular designs, VLSI, and digital logic design and verification techniques
• 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 Proficiency in English language is required