Sr. Formal Verification Engineer, Annapurna Labs

About the role

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. We are seeking experienced Hardware Design Engineers to work with partners and vendors to build the next generation of our cloud server infrastructure. Our success depends on our world-class server infrastructure; we’re handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.

As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team, you’ll be responsible for the design and optimization of hardware in our data centers, including technologies such as AWS Inferentia, a machine learning inference product designed to deliver high performance at low cost.

Responsibilities

• Develop formal verification plans, implement and verify state-of-the-art IP architectures.
• Work with block designers to gain deep micro-architectural understanding.
• Develop checking algorithms, assertions, and formal verification (FV) models.
• Perform state-of-the-art formal methods and abstraction techniques.
• Participate in test plan and coverage reviews.
• Promote assertions to simulation and contribute to overall simulation strategy.
• Communicate and work with team members across multiple disciplines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of practical experience with formal verification as IP/Block owner, or equivalent academic experience in formal methods.
• 7+ years of experience with formal verification techniques including abstraction and end-to-end checking, or equivalent academic experience in formal methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with formal verification techniques including abstraction and end-to-end checking.
• Knowledge of programming or other scripting languages and coding skills (C/C++/C#, Node.JS, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby).
• Understanding of micro-architectural design comprehension and debugging.
• Practical experience with RTL design.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Pay

• USA, CA, Cupertino: $183,000.00 - $247,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Austin: $159,200.00 - $215,300.00 USD annually

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.