NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. As a Formal Verification Engineer at NVIDIA, you will verify the build and implementation of the industry's leading GPUs. In this position, your responsibilities will be to verify the micro-architecture using formal verification tools, define the verification scope, and ensure correctness. You will employ sophisticated formal techniques to acquire sufficiently bounded proofs while working with architects, designers, and pre- & post-silicon verification teams to accomplish your tasks. You will efficiently complete the formal verification effort for the entire project cycle, delivering high-quality results on schedule, and clearly conveying those results to the team. What you will be doing: Identify key behaviors for verification to write clear testplans for sophisticated designs. Implement testplans using the latest formal techniques, including the development of environment assumptions, assertions, and cover properties. Develop abstraction models to overcome complexity challenges and acquire full proofs, or bounded proofs with sufficient coverage. Drive formal tools to realize their best performance. Debug RTL to identify causes of failure scenarios. Contribute to flow and script development
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We are now looking for a Senior Performance Verification Engineer!
As a member of our CPU Performance verification Team, you will be responsible for performance correlation, analyzing workloads and benchmarks for performance bottlenecks, developing microbenchmarks and creating the necessary verification infrastructure for performance analysis. This position offers you the opportunity to have real impact in a dynamic, technology-focused company impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and the growing field of artificial intelligence. We have crafted a team of outstanding people stretching around the globe, whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the platform for the future of computing.
What you’ll be doing:
- Technical leadership role to define/plan/implement/execute performance verification strategy of sophisticated CPU designs
- Ability to delve into lowest level details of CPU unit design specification, implementation and it's performance impact
- Interactions with architect and design engineers to define detailed scope of micro architectural features
- Draft detailed performance testplans and define/Create scalable micros to validate features
- Analysis and correlation of CPU benchmarks/workloads
- Build infra/tooling needed for efficient performance correlation debug
- Ability to lead and provide detailed technical guidance to junior engineers
- Agility to work on multiple tasks/projects
What we need to see:
- BS or MS in EE/ECE or equivalent experience. PhD is a plus
- 5+ years of experience in CPU performance modeling, performance correlation, performance analysis, or relevant experiences
- Strong understanding in CPU micro architecture and designs
- Experience with workload analysis and characterization
- Strong coding skills in scripting languages like Perl, Python, or C++
- Good communication skills and ability & desire to work as a team player are a must
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Experience leading performance validation of major blocks of CPU pipeline
- Background with ARM A64, X86 Architectures
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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