GPU Design Verification Engineer

Position Summary Samsung, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, is founded on a simple philosophy – the endless pursuit of excellence will create a better world for all. At Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) and Advanced Computing Lab (ACL), we are building a center of excellence for Intellectual Property (IP) that is applied to high-performance computing devices (mobile, automotive, and other custom market segments) consumed by millions of people around the world. Come build with us! Role and Responsibilities As a Staff GPU Design Verification Engineer – Formal Verification, you will contribute to block and subsystem level formal verification for Samsung's next-generation mobile GPU. In this individual contributor role, you will execute formal verification in collaboration with architecture and RTL teams to ensure functional correctness, power gating mechanisms, and alignment with architectural intent. You bring solid expertise in formal methods and GPU or semiconductor design verification, with an interest in exploring new approaches as methodologies evolve. Leveraging your technical foundation, you will contribute to block-level formal verification strategy and execution by defining verification goals, properties, coverage objectives, and sign-off criteria for critical GPU features, including clock and power gating. You architect and implement formal verification environments by collaborating with RTL and architecture teams to develop assertions, properties, and formal models using industry-standard formal tools and methodologies to validate complex graphics and compute behavior. You ensure functional correctness by applying formal techniques to exhaustively verify corner cases, state-space behaviors, and safety properties that go beyond what simulation-based verification can achieve. You contribute to debug analysis and root-cause resolution by analyzing formal failures, tracing counterexamples, and working closely with design and architecture teams to ensure verification aligns with architectural intent and improves design robustness. You apply formal verification techniques including proof depth, bug hunting, complexity handling, bounded proof, failure triaging, cover scenarios, and convergence analysis to achieve formal verification closure on assigned GPU design features. You exercise independent judgment in execution, methods, and evaluation criteria — breaking down complex verification problems into actionable tasks and delivering results with minimal guidance. You contribute to project execution using Confluence, JIRA, and relevant planning techniques, and maintain documentation including formal verification test plans, convergence reports, and complexity analysis. You participate in knowledge-sharing and foster a culture of ownership and engineering rigor within the team.