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Formal Verification Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Cupertino, California; Austin, Texas; Beaverton, Oregon)$115.8k - $194.7kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Formal verification engineer role within Apple’s Silicon Technologies group, focusing on complete formal verification for multiple design blocks and IPs in a System-on-a-chip (SoC) context, collaborating with design teams to validate micro-architectures and improve verification efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Working with Apple Silicon's world-class Security Enclave design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification
  • Developing comprehensive formal verification test plan that includes unique security requirement verification
  • Proving properties of the design, finding design bugs, and working closely with design teams to help improve the micro-architecture
  • Crafting novel and creative solutions for modelling security attacks and proving robustness of complex design micro-architectures
  • Developing and implementing re-usable and optimized formal models and verification code base
  • Architecting correct-by-construction design methodologies for improved formal verification efficiency and productivity.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field with 0 years of experience
  • Interest in learning and becoming an expert in SoC, CPU, GPU, or Cellular design
  • Detail oriented approach and desire to overcome challenges is required
  • Formal Method or Formal Verification technologies knowledge is a plus
  • Knowledge and experience in interpreting hardware specifications
  • Proficiency in any scripting language with excellent debugging skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Passionate about developing world-class/innovative formal verification solutions

Skills

Required:Formal verificationMicro-architecture specificationScripting
Nice to have:Security modeling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation may be eligible
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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