Senior / Staff Formal Verification Engineer

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Senior / Staff Formal Verification Engineer

Job no: 502373
Work type: Experienced Professional
Location: Cambridge UK, Manchester UK, Kings Langley UK, Bristol UK
Categories: Graphics

The role

The role is for our excellent GPU Hardware team. Our mission is to create through constant innovation the best-in-class GPU IP, for a wide range of market segments and applications.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to exercise your skills on cutting-edge designs, work on key building blocks for market-leading chips and deliver significant impact to the future success of our wider team.

You will:

• Be responsible for the delivery of formal verification activities related to a GPU component or sub-system from early stages of verification planning to sign-off
• Design and implement formal verification strategies to achieve our design quality goals.
• Root-cause design issues in collaboration with other engineers.
• Research new formal verification techniques and continuously drive the scope of what can be achieved with formal verification.
• Create verification plans, develop and maintain formal methodology and complex benches
• Track and report verification metrics and closure
• Participate in all stages of design specification definition providing feedback from the verification perspective
• Be responsible for the definition, effort estimation and tracking of your own work
• Be able to influence and advance our GPU verification methodology
• Have the opportunity to lead, coach and mentor other members of the team
• Participate in design and verification reviews and recommend improvements
• Contribute to team shared knowledge via open discussions and presentations

About you

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you're an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You're curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You'll have:

• Have good knowledge on Formal Verification concepts, methodology and tools
• Have experience in deploying Formal Verification on complex micro-architectures
• Be able to come up with bespoke techniques to drive exhaustive proofs and perform deep bug-hunting
• Have exposure of advanced Formal Verification techniques like abstractions, invariants, SEC, etc.
• Have knowledge of complex standard bus protocols and relevant ABVIP integration
• Have working knowledge of ASIC design methodologies, flows and tools
• Be able to plan, estimate and track your own work

You might also have:

• Knowledge of GPU/CPU architecture
• Knowledge of standard bus protocols (e.g., AMBA5 CHI, AMBA4 ACE or AXI)
• Experience in wider verification technologies (UVM, etc)
• Knowledge of a scripting language and/or C/SystemC
• Understanding of functional safety standards such as ISO26262

Who we are

At Imagination, we love innovating. We spend our time creating the graphics and AI chips that are at the core of your favourite electronic products, and we are expanding our IP portfolio to include RISC-V CPUs as part of our efforts to create the best Compute offering in the market. We have a no-compromise approach to making our technology as high performance and power-efficient as possible, all while being squeezed into the smallest space possible.

It's this relentless drive to push the boundaries of what's possible that has led to Imagination powering more than 10 billion of the world's most iconic electronic devices, from smartphones to smart TVs, from drones to self-driving cars.

We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before.

So come join us if you're wanting that something more

Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we'll help you do the rest. You'll be part of one of the world's most exciting companies who are one of the leaders in semiconductor IP solutions.

As a part of our team, you can help us transform, innovate, and inspire the lives of millions through our technology.

Additional information

If you encounter accessibility barriers in the application process or if you have access needs and require support or adjustments to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please email recruitment@imgtec.com.

Advertised: 10 Nov 2023 GMT Standard Time
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