Formal Design Verification Engineer

Role: GPU Formal Design Verification

Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite: M-F)

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Pay rate: $85-95/hr W2

Description:

• Formal Design Verification Engineer, you will be responsible for developing formal constraints, checks, and cover properties to new and existing design blocks towards verifying sequential equivalence for clock gating logic & so, verifying design features using assertions and verifying datapath equivalence of C and RTL models.
• You will diagnose formal failures and work closely with RTL designers to update formal setup or RTL code.
• GPU designs provide a wealth of technical challenges in memory hierarchy, parallel processing units, and complex mathematical units.
• This is a challenging and rewarding position where you will learn cutting-edge design and verification techniques from an exceptionally talented team, and where your contributions will make a visible impact to the end product.
• Develop formal verification setup using System Verilog modules and Assertions
• Run formal verification checks, analyze the results, and debug any issues.
• Develop and enhance constraints, checks, and cover points to achieve verification quality.
• Verify GPU design blocks using formal verification approaches like sequential equivalence checking, property-based feature verification and datapath verification using C models.
• Hands-on experience in developing formal based datapath verification setups using RTL & C Models
• Hands-on experience in developing formal property-based feature verification setups
• In-depth expertise on proof depth and convergence analysis for formal setups
• Root cause formal failures to identify design or test setup issues.
• Analyze and deploy formal convergence techniques like abstraction, blackboxing and design reductions.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including design, architecture, and software teams, to ensure that verification efforts are aligned with project goals and requirements.
• Participate in the development and improvement of verification methodologies, tools, and flows to increase efficiency and effectiveness of verification efforts.
• Adhere to project execution and planning approaches using Confluence, JIRA and relevant techniques.
• Create and maintain documentation for formal verification test plans, convergence reports, complexity analysis reports and results.
• Responsible in driving formal verification tasks & report to project verification leads as required

Skills And Qualifications:

• BSEE, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3+ years of experience
• Masters or Ph.D. degree preferred
• Good understanding of CPU and/or GPU design architecture
• Strong experience or exposure to System Verilog (SV) and System Verilog Assertion (SVA) coding skills is required
• Experience in developing formal verification setups is a must
• Experience in developing constrained random testbenches is preferred
• Experience with formal verification tools such as VC Formal, Jasper Gold, or Questa Formal
• Experience working in a Linux environment
• Excellent communication skills and be able to work with cross-functional teams to execute verification plan