R&D Engineer: Formal Methods for Secure Cryptography

Inria; Valbonne, Nice, Montpellier; Sur place; EUR 27 338 - 32 746; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Inria Côte d’Azur invites applications for a Research and Development Engineer in Formal Methods. The role focuses on extending and improving formal verification toolchains like EasyCrypt, Jasmin, and maskVerif, with emphasis on the Jasmin compiler and its Rocq/Coq formal model.

You will work across research teams within a European consortium, contributing high-quality, open-source software. Candidates should have a graduate degree or PhD with strong background in functional programming (OCaml),

Qualifications

• Graduate degree or equivalent; Doctorat valued.
• Strong background in functional programming and OCaml.
• Experience with a proof assistant, particularly Rocq/Coq; strong preference.
• Familiarity with formal methods and verification frameworks (EasyCrypt, maskVerif).
• Knowledge of hardware security, side-channel attacks, and masking techniques is desirable.

Responsabilités

• Extend and improve the reliability of the formal verification tools.
• Extend proof languages and program logics to support constructs from systems programming languages.
• Share hardware architecture descriptions across the consortium's tools.
• Strengthen automated verification capabilities for masking countermeasures.
• Design, implement, and validate robust software components; improve tooling.

Connaissances

OCaml

Programming language theory

Rocq/Coq

Formal methods

Hardware security

Low-level programming

Formation

Graduate degree

PhD

Outils

EasyCrypt

Jasmin

maskVerif

Assembly language

Description du poste

Inria Côte d’Azur invites applications for a Research and Development Engineer in Formal Methods. The role focuses on extending and improving formal verification toolchains like EasyCrypt, Jasmin, and maskVerif, with emphasis on the Jasmin compiler and its Rocq/Coq formal model.

You will work across research teams within a European consortium, contributing high-quality, open-source software. Candidates should have a graduate degree or PhD with strong background in functional programming (OCaml),