**Who this is for** This role is for a Senior Formal Verification Engineer with 6+ years of experience, looking to develop verification tools for GPU kernels. Y
Work type: onsite
Location: US, CA, Santa Clara
Salary: $184,000 – $287,500/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a Senior Formal Verification Engineer with 6+ years of experience, looking to develop verification tools for GPU kernels. You will be instrumental in proving kernel correctness for use in various environments, including safety-critical systems, by combining formal methods and AI. **Key highlights** Join NVIDIA's Deep Learning Safety Team to design and implement scalable verification tools for GPU kernels. This position involves developing new verification approaches, integrating AI into formal verification workflows, and automating tasks like specification formalization and bug fixing. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 6+ years of relevant work experience and an MS or PhD in Computer Science, Compute Engineering, or equivalent. - Possess formal methods experience (symbolic execution, SMT solving, model checking). - Have strong programming skills in C/C++ or Rust, and experience with SCM and build systems. - Are capable of working independently, defining project goals, and leading development efforts.
We are now looking for a Senior Formal Verification Engineer for GPU Kernels! Modern AI performance relies on highly optimized GPU kernels — performance-critical code where bugs can be hard to catch and expensive to miss. NVIDIA's Deep Learning Safety Team is hiring engineers to build the verification tools that prove these kernels behave correctly, enabling their deployment in a large range of environments, including safety-critical systems. The mission is to design and develop scalable verification tools for GPU kernels. You will design and implement new verification approaches that can handle the massive concurrency and complex memory model of the latest GPU architectures.
Formal methods alone cannot scale to modern GPU kernels, and AI alone cannot offer safety guarantees — the team's bet is that the combination can, and you will help build it. Join the team supporting compiler and kernel developers for safe autonomous driving.
What you'll be doing:
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and delivering verification tools for GPU kernels. The scope of these efforts ranges from developing new algorithms to evaluating them, from building tools to automating workflows, from joining architecture discussion to learning the latest technologies from the research community. The AI + formal methods intersection is an active research area — expect to read papers, prototype ideas from them, and contribute back where it makes sense.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD.
You will also be eligible for equity and [benefits](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/).
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 27, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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