Formal Verification Engineer - New College Grad 2026

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‑ and 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. Key Responsibilities Identify key behaviors for verification to write clear test plans for complex designs. Execute test plans 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 the 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. Qualifications 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/SystemVerilog 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. Benefits & Compensation 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. EEO Statement NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr NVIDIA