Formal Verification Engineer - New College Grad 2026

Job Requisition ID

JR2019447

Job Category

Engineering

Time Type

Full time

As a Formal Verification Engineer at NVIDIA, you will verify the design 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 design correctness. You will employ advanced formal techniques to obtain sufficiently bounded proofs while working with architects, designers, and pre- & post-silicon verification teams to accomplish your tasks. You will efficiently execute 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 complex designs.
• Execute testplans using the latest formal techniques, including the development of environment assumptions, assertions and cover properties.
• Reasoning about arithmetic designs and developing verification strategies targeted to manage complexity of arithmetic design verification using formal techniques.
• Understand and reason about C reference models and their control flows including using debugging flows.
• Drive tools to realize their best performance.
• Debug RTL to identify causes of failure scenarios.
• Contribute to flow and script development to improve team efficiency.
• Articulate formal verification coverage of the design to partners.
  
  

What We Need To See

• BS/MS/PhD or equivalent experience in CS/CE/EE/Mathematics.
• Solid understanding of GPU/CPU architectures and designs.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to reason about arithmetic verification challenges.
• Knowledge of formal verification methodologies and techniques.
• Able to understand arithmetic operations like MUL, FMA, MMA
• Hands-on experience with C, Verilog / System Verilog HDLs, temporal logic assertions.
• Excellent command of scripting using Python and Tcl.
• Experience with industry strength formal verification tools.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to effectively collaborate and work with members of a distributed team.
  
  

Come, join our GPU Formal Verification team and help build the real-time, cost-effective computing platform driving our success in this exciting and quickly growing field. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 100,000 USD - 166,750 USD for Level 1, and 116,000 USD - 189,750 USD for Level 2.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 12, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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