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Formal Verification Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Beaverton, OR), Hybrid (Cupertino, CA)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Formal verification engineer responsible for end-to-end formal verification across multiple silicon blocks and IPs within Apple’s SoC organization, collaborating with design teams to prove properties, model security threats, and improve verification efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Working with Apple Silicon's 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

  • A minimum of a BS degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field
  • Interest in learning and becoming an expert in SoC, CPU, GPU, or Cellular design
  • Detail oriented approach and desire to overcome challenges
  • 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 verificationSecurity attack modellingScripting
Nice to have:Formal methods
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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