CPU Formal Verification Engineer

Join Intel's Silicon Engineering Group

Step into a role where your expertise directly impacts Intel's next-generation server CPUs – the engines powering cloud infrastructure, AI workloads, and enterprise computing worldwide. Working with industry-leading process technologies, you'll help deliver the performance breakthroughs that keep Intel at the forefront of the server market.

Your Mission: Architect the Future of Server Computing

The Mindset We're Seeking:

• Intellectual Curiosity – You question assumptions, dig deeper, and identify verification gaps others might miss.
• Collaborative Excellence – You thrive in cross-functional partnerships, working seamlessly with architects, designers, and fellow verification engineers.
• Technical Leadership – You can distill complex formal verification concepts into clear, actionable insights for diverse technical audiences.
• Adaptive Innovation – You pivot gracefully when designs evolve, turning challenges into opportunities for verification breakthroughs.
• Results-Driven Impact – You're obsessed with delivering verification quality that gives Intel absolute confidence in our silicon.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications: You must possess a B.S. in Computer Engineering/ Electrical Engineering or any STEM Degree with 6+ years of experience listed below; OR a M.S. in Computer Engineering/ Electrical Engineering or any STEM Degree with 4+ years of experience listed below; OR a PhD in Computer Engineering/ Electrical Engineering or any STEM Degree with 6+ months of experience listed below. The experience must include the following areas:

• Computer architecture knowledge with emphasis on out of order processor execution, memory hierarchy, and memory management.
• Hands on experience with industry standard formal verification tools such as JasperGold, Questa Formal, VC Formal.
• Experience with formal abstractions and other complexity reduction techniques.
• Experience with a hardware modeling language, such as Verilog, VHDL, or System Verilog and industry standard logic simulation tools.
• Experience in assertion writing, checker development, coverage analysis, failure debug, root cause analysis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Intel Architecture ISA and system architecture, x86 assembly language.
• Post-silicon debug and analysis.
• Research publications, patent filings, or other evidence of personal technical innovation in validation methodology advancement.
• Experience with applying sequential equivalence checking in complex micro-architectures.
• Programming experience in at least one language: C/C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, TCL, etc.
• Intel or industry experience in pre-silicon verification of CPU cores, including specific areas of technical ownership/expertise relevant to CPUs.

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Additional Locations: US, California, Santa Clara, US, Texas, Austin

Business Group: The Silicon Engineering Group (SIG) is a worldwide organization focused on the development and integration of SOCs, Cores, and critical IPs from architecture to manufacturing readiness that power Intel's leadership products.

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits: We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $139,710.00-197,230.00 USD The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Work Model for this Role: This role will require an on-site presence. Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.