Formal Verification Engineer - New College Grad 2026

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking talented individuals passionate about formal verification, digital design, and computer architecture. This role involves verifying advanced processor and accelerator designs using mathematical reasoning, assertions, model checking, and formal verification tools.

Responsibilities

• Learn and apply formal verification techniques to real processor and accelerator designs.
• Understand design behavior from specifications, RTL, and discussions with design teams.
• Write assumptions, assertions, and cover properties to verify important microarchitectural behavior.
• Debug formal failures and counterexamples to identify RTL bugs, property issues, or constraint problems.
• Use abstraction, modeling, and scripting to improve proof convergence and team productivity.
• Clearly communicate verification progress, coverage, risks, and findings.

Requirements

• BS/MS/Ph.D. or equivalent experience in CS/CE/EE/Mathematics.
• Strong analytical and collaboration skills to solve complex problems.
• Familiarity with Verilog, SystemVerilog.
• Programming or scripting experience in Python, Tcl, Perl, C/C++, or similar.
• Ability to learn quickly, ask good questions, and collaborate effectively.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with formal tools such as JasperGold, VC Formal, or similar.
• Experience writing SystemVerilog Assertions.
• Passion for formal verification, digital design, computer architecture, or hardware correctness.
• Understanding of CPU, GPU, accelerator, SoC, memory-system, or protocol microarchitecture.
• Proven AI applications on engineering enhancement and improvements.

Skills

• Strong analytical and collaboration skills.
• Experience with formal verification tools.
• Programming/scripting experience in relevant languages.
• Understanding of microarchitectural concepts.
• Passion for formal verification and related fields.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from $100,000 to $166,750 for Level 1, and $116,000 to $189,750 for Level 2.
• Equity and benefits package.

Pay

Base salary range: $100,000 - $166,750 for Level 1, and $116,000 - $189,750 for Level 2.

Schedule

Full-time position.