CPU Formal Verification Engineer

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices

Cambridge, United Kingdom

THE ROLE:

AMD is seeking an experienced Formal Verification Engineer, a technical leader passionate about advancing formal verification techniques for next-generation CPU IP design. This Individual will drive and execute AMD’s formal verification methodology across the CPU domain, ensuring industry-leading verification quality and productivity under aggressive timelines. The role involves close collaboration with architecture, design, and central formal verification teams to shape the roadmap, methodology, infrastructure, and execution of formal verification practices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Architect and execute formal verification methodologies to comprehensively cover CPU design, including datapath and control logic.
Scale formal verification to large, critical designs to ensure bug-free quality across the IP lifecycle.
Resolve convergence challenges using advanced techniques such as proof by induction, COI reduction and abstraction.
Build and maintain best-in-class formal verification infrastructure for adoption across engineering teams.
Explore formalization of ISA and memory models for CPU IP.
Stay at the forefront of formal verification innovation and foster technical relationships across AMD’s design community and EDA partners.
Champion cross-department collaboration and drive AMD-wide formal verification excellence.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Hands-on experience of development of Assertion IP(AIP) and end-to-end properties is highly desirable.
Strong debug skills for uArch functional failures.
Advanced user of formal tools from academia and EDA vendors (e.g., JasperGold, VC Formal).
Proven success in delivering high-quality verification for large-scale processor designs under tight schedules.
Strong understanding of computer architecture and CPU pipelines.
Experience developing infrastructure for FPV, FXP(x-prop), DPV, SEC and other formal apps is highly desirable.