Senior Formal Verification Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

Senior Formal Verification Engineer at NVIDIA responsible for formally verifying complex hardware 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 defining scope, creating testplans, building testbenches, coding assertions, applying abstraction and coverage techniques, and developing verification flows with vendor and internal tools.

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 5+ 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
  • hardware micro-architecture and design
  • formal property verification experience