Senior Formal Verification Engineer
Hemel HempsteadRISC-VRTL / HDLVerificationKernel / LinuxpermanentPosted Apr 20, 2026via personio
Job overview
This role involves leading technical decision-making, mentoring engineers at all levels, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the development of formal verification methodologies.
Your typical day would involve building cutting-edge formal verification testbench environments to find bugs and build proofs of bug absence in SoCs containing processors, video/GPUs, networking, AI/ML designs. Beyond the technical work, you will have line management responsibilities – where you would drive delivery and development of individuals in your team.
Responsibilities:
• Drive formal verification strategy, defining methodologies and driving adoption across complex RTL designs.
• Architect and oversee scalable formal environments, including advanced assertion development and reusable frameworks.
• Drive deep formal analysis to achieve exhaustive coverage of critical design properties and corner cases.
• Own debug and root-cause analysis of complex failures, guiding resolution across cross-functional teams.
• Lead equivalence checking, verification planning, and coverage closure for high-impact projects.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence best practices, while improving verification flows, automation, and tool utilization.
Requirements:
Education
Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate in EEE/ECE/CS/Maths/Physics
Technical Skills:
Linux/Unix
Verilog/ SystemVerilog /VHDL
Digital design
Open-source projects in design/verification
RISC-V/Arm/x86/MIPS
SVA/PSL/Theorem proving
Tcl/Python/Bash
Soft Skills:
Problem solving
Ownership
Autonomy
Team spirit
Attention to details
Language skills: English
Experience:
4-8 years of relevant design/verification experience
5-10 years of non-design/verification experience
>2 years of FV experience
Delivery experience: ability to autonomously execute middle scale projects (3 - 6 months)
Right to work:
We provide sponsorship for exceptional candidates, upon conditional terms and conditions.
In Return:
You’ll apply your formal verification expertise to technologies that shape and support millions of devices for years to come. This role gives you the opportunity to step into a field where you can grow your technical leadership and impact.
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