Sr. Formal Verification Engineer, Annapurna Labs

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 have data center locations in the U.S. Europe Singapore and Japan and customers across all industries. We are seeking experienced Hardware Design Engineers to work with partners and vendor and build the next generation of our cloud server infrastructure. Our success depends on our world-class server infrastructure; were handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.
As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team youll be responsible for the design and optimization of hardware in our data centers including technologies such as AWS Inferentia which is a machine learning inference product designed to deliver high performance at low cost.


Key job 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 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.

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- Bachelors 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.

- 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# Java Python PHP Ruby)
- Understanding of u-arch design comprehension and debugging.
- Practical experience with RTL design.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 159200.00 - 215300.00 USD annually