GPU Formal Design Verification Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Graphics Verification Engineer to join the Silicon Technologies group. You will contribute to pre-silicon RTL verification for high-performance GPUs/SoCs using formal methods to ensure robust design.

You will collaborate with design, verification, and micro-architects to develop verification plans, drive formal verification across blocks, and create automated flows to support scalable GPU verification across the stack.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent field + 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with CPU or GPU design architectures, VLSI circuits, and digital logic design.
• Experience with formal verification tools, such as JasperGold, IFV, etc.
• Experience in programming/scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Work with the design team to review and enhance specifications.
• Develop verification plans in coordination with design leads, verification leads and micro-architects.
• Develop and drive to completion formal verification across multiple design blocks.
• Conduct formal verification reviews with design and verification teams.
• Handle deliverables and work with multi-functional teams to support product requirements.
• Create automated flows and infrastructure for formal verification.
• Work with other block and core level engineers to ensure seamless verification flow.

Skills

CPU/GPU architecture

VLSI circuits

Digital logic design

Formal verification concepts

SystemVerilog

SVA

Education

BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

JasperGold

IFV

Job description

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? 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 expertly 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! The Graphics Verification Engineer will be responsible for the pre-silicon RTL verification applying formal and property checking methods. This includes deep understanding of the micro-architectural details of their block and how it works within the broader GPU design.

Description

In this role you will:- Work with the design team to review and enhance specifications.- Develop verification plans in coordination with design leads, verification leads and micro-architects.- Develop and drive to completion formal verification across multiple design blocks.- Conduct formal verification reviews with design and verification teams.- Handle deliverables and work with multi-functional teams to support product requirements.- Create automated flows and infrastructure for formal verification.- Work with other block and core level engineers to ensure seamless verification flow.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent field + 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with CPU or GPU design architectures, VLSI circuits, and digital logic design.
• Experience with formal verification tools, such as JasperGold, IFV, etc.
• Experience in programming/scripting languages.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HDLs such as Verilog/System Verilog and temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA.
• Experience in formal verification and analysis of pipelined micro-architectures, MMUs, and cache coherency control mechanisms.
• Experience with abstraction techniques and formal verification technologies.
• Experience in reviewing and interpreting design specifications.
• Experience using academic formal verification tools.
• Knowledge of constrained random verification methods.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams.

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