Formal Verification Engineer

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. Silicon Technologies group seeks a formal verification engineer to perform complete formal verification for CPU, Cellular and Connectivity IPs, Audio/Image processing IP, and related subsystems.

You will develop verification plans, prove properties, model security attacks, and collaborate with design teams to improve micro‑architectures while crafting reusable verification code and formal models for efficient validation.

Qualifications

• A BS degree with at least 10 years of relevant silicon validation experience.
• Hands-on experience with formal verification techniques and hardware verification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work with Apple Silicon's Security Enclave team to develop a formal micro-architecture specification.
• Develop comprehensive formal verification test plans including unique security requirement verification.
• Prove properties of the design and identify design bugs; collaborate with design teams to improve micro-architecture.
• Craft novel and creative solutions for modeling security attacks and proving robustness of complex designs.
• Develop and implement reusable and optimized formal models and verification code bases.
• Architect correct-by-construction design methodologies for improved verification efficiency.

Skills

Formal verification

SVA/PSL

Scripting languages

Interpersonal skills

Education

BS degree

Tools

EDA formal tools

Tool development experience

Job description

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? 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.

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 reusable 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 BS degree and a minimum of 10 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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