verification engineer

verification engineer Cambridge, East of England, England

Apple
Full Time Cambridge, East of England, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

verification

Summary

Posted: Jul 14, 2023
Role Number:200461671
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products powered by Apple Silicon. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you have experience leading a System-on-a-chip (SoC) design verification effort collaborating with design? Are you passionate about changing the world? We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles.

Key Qualifications

  • Outstanding team leading and communication skills and experience working with design and verification teams to identify FV candidates, develop test plans and perform data-centric verification closure.
  • Hands on experience with VLSI and digital logic design and verification techniques
  • Advanced knowledge of SoC, CPU, GPU, or Cellular designs
  • Developed formal property proofs on industrial strength designs and architectures
  • Deep understanding of pipeline architectures, memory/DMA controllers, out-of-order and speculative instruction execution hardware, bus interconnects, and cache coherence mechanisms
  • Confirmed understanding of formal verification technologies/abstraction techniques
  • Knowledge and experience in interpreting hardware specifications and using
  • Temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA or PSL
  • Experience in using EDA formal tools and tool development experience is a plus
  • Proficiency in any scripting language with excellent debugging skills
  • Extraordinary teammate with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Passionate about developing world-class/innovative formal verification solutions
  • Understanding of application processors (CPU/GPU), their Instruction Set Architectures (ISA), Memory Consistency Models (MCM) or Cache Coherence protocols is desirable but not necessary
  • Exposure to ARM type architectures is desirable but not necessary

Description

As a formal verification technical lead you'll work to identify targets and complete formal verification for single or multiple design blocks and IP’s (CPU, Cellular and Connectivity IP, Audio and Image Processing IP, Neural Networks IP, Memory/DMA Controller, Security IP, Peripheral IP, Interconnects, Power management subsystems, etc.), you will be responsible for: Working with Apple's world-classP design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification. Formalizing the refinement from architecture to micro-architecture. Developing comprehensive formal verification test plan. Proving properties of the design, finding design bugs, and working closely with design teams to help improve the micro-architecture. Crafting novel and creative solutions for verifying complex design micro-architectures. Developing and implementing re-usable and optimized formal models and verification code base. Architecting correct-by-construction design methodologies for improved formal verification efficiency and productivity.

Education & Experience

BS / MS / Ph.D in EE or CS is required.

Additional Requirements

  • Fluency in English is a must.
  • The role is open to St.Albans or Cambridge, UK

verification engineer
Apple

www.apple.com
Cupertino, United States
Tim Cook
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1976
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