Formal Verification Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

NVIDIA is seeking a Formal Verification Engineer to formally verify complex designs using advanced property proving techniques. The role involves close interaction with design, architecture, and validation teams, as well as NVIDIA's internal FV R&D group. Responsibilities include applying formal verification techniques, creating testplans, building testbenches, coding assertions and constraints, and designing verification flows.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will help decide on the best applications of formal verification techniques to various parts of the design.
  2. Review functional and micro-architectural specifications, define the scope for formal verification, and create high-quality formal verification testplans to sign-off on the corresponding design implementation.
  3. Build formal verification testbenches, code assertions and constraints, and apply abstraction techniques to converge the targeted properties or to achieve reasonable proof-depth.
  4. Apply formal coverage techniques for analyzing over-constraints and for measuring functional coverage.
  5. Design and develop functional verification flows that involve both vendor and internally developed formal tools.

Skills

Required

  • B.Tech./ M.Tech. with 2+ years of relevant experience
  • Good understanding of hardware micro-architecture and design
  • Conversant with formal verification technologies, including complexity reduction techniques
  • Formal property verification experience on multiple complex units
  • Proficiency in creating high quality testplans, building formal testbenches, and root-causing counter-examples

Nice to have

  • Good debugging and problem solving skills
  • Scripting knowledge (Python/Perl/shell)
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills and dream to work as a great team member

What the JD emphasized

  • formal verification methodology
  • formal verification techniques
  • formal verification tools
  • formal verification technology
  • formal verification testplans
  • formal verification testbenches
  • formal coverage techniques
  • formal verification flows
  • formal verification technologies
  • Formal property verification experience