Remote Lean 4 Formal Verification Scientist

Alignerr; Wellington; On-site; NZD 14,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Freelance autonomy

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking a Formal Verification Scientist to translate advanced mathematics into machine-verifiable Lean 4 proofs, pioneering automated proof assistants in AI research.

This fully remote hourly contract offers 10–40 hours per week with flexible scheduling, enabling you to work from anywhere while delivering rigorous formalizations and contributions to frontier mathematical AI systems.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in Mathematics, Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, or closely related field.
• Strong proof-writing background across algebra, analysis, topology, logic, or discrete math.

Responsibilities

• Translate informal mathematical proofs into clean, structured Lean 4 formalizations with emphasis on clarity and correctness.
• Analyze proofs across domains to identify hidden assumptions and formalizable sub-structures.
• Push boundaries of proof assistants by tackling problems where automated tools struggle.
• Explain why automated provers break down due to complexity, missing lemmas, or library gaps.
• Formalize classical proofs and compare machine-verifiable structures to textbook arguments.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to design and refine formal verification pipelines.
• Guide proof decomposition, lemma selection, and structuring strategies for formal models.

Skills

Proof writing

Lean 4

Formal reasoning

Education

Master's degree in Mathematics or related field

Tools

Lean 4

Coq

Isabelle/HOL

Agda

Job description

Alignerr is seeking a Formal Verification Scientist to translate advanced mathematics into machine-verifiable Lean 4 proofs, pioneering automated proof assistants in AI research.

This fully remote hourly contract offers 10–40 hours per week with flexible scheduling, enabling you to work from anywhere while delivering rigorous formalizations and contributions to frontier mathematical AI systems.