Formal Verification Engineer

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle’s software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world’s highest performance automotive compute platforms.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Silicon Engineering Lead.

You will:

• Define and drive formal strategy for first-pass silicon success. Own the formal verification sign-off approach across complex IP and SoC designs, utilizing advanced formal techniques (e.g., Bounded Model Checking, Datapath Validation, Connectivity, Sequential LEC, etc.)
• Architect robust and scalable FV environments. Develop and deploy reusable formal testbenches, methodology flows, and high-coverage SVA assertion suites for systemic deployment across multiple design blocks and projects
• Technical leadership & mentorship. Serve as the team's formal Subject Matter Expert, training and guiding logic designers and verification engineers to effectively incorporate formal methods into their workflows
• Strategic planning and test plan execution. Collaborate with Architecture and Design teams to translate complex system and IP specifications into comprehensive formal verification test plans
• Drive FV Infrastructure & Reporting. Maintain and enhance continuous integration, regression flows, and dashboarding to provide clear, actionable formal verification status and sign-off metrics to leadership
• Advanced bug-hunting and debugging. Apply state-of-the-art formal techniques (e.g., assume-guarantee, abstractions, reductions) to tackle and efficiently decompose the most challenging, intractable verification problems