Cpu Formal Verification Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Oregon, Hillsboro, United States +4

This role focuses on the formal verification of CPU microarchitectures using formal verification tools and methodologies. The engineer will develop and implement verification plans, create abstraction models, develop formal proofs, and collaborate with design teams to ensure the quality and reliability of Intel's CPU technologies, which are used in various devices including AI and machine learning systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conducts verification of IP and/or SoC microarchitecture using formal verification tools, methodologies, and technologies based on model checking and equivalence checking algorithms.
  2. Creates comprehensive formal verification test and coverage plans including definition of formal verification scope, strategy, and techniques.
  3. Creates abstraction models for convergence on the design, carves out the right boundaries for the design, and tracks, verifies, and applies abstraction techniques.
  4. Develops formal proofs to implement the verification plan, reviews the completed proofs, and develops new formal verification methodologies.
  5. Performs convergence on design by creating formal verification methodology, abstraction, and simulation techniques.

Skills

Required

  • B.S. in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of experience or M.S. in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience or PhD in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with emphasis on formal verification
  • applying sequential equivalence checking in complex micro-architectures
  • assertion writing
  • checker development
  • coverage analysis
  • failure debug
  • root cause analysis

Nice to have

  • In-depth computer architecture knowledge with emphasis on out of order processor execution, memory hierarchy, and memory management.
  • Hands on experience with industry standard formal verification tools such as JasperGold, Questa Formal, VC Formal.
  • Experience with formal abstractions and other complexity reduction techniques.
  • Experience with a hardware modeling language, such as Verilog, VHDL, or System Verilog and industry standard logic simulation tools.
  • Programming experience in at least one language: C/C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, TCL, etc.
  • Intel or industry experience in pre-silicon verification of CPU cores, including specific areas of technical ownership/expertise relevant to CPUs.
  • Knowledge of Intel Architecture ISA and system architecture, x86 assembly language.
  • Post-silicon debug and analysis.
  • Research publications, patent filings, or other evidence of personal technical innovation in validation methodology advancement.

What the JD emphasized

  • formal verification