Formal Methods Research Engineer for AI Oversight Tools

Convergentresearch; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision & dental

Paid time off

Life insurance

401(k) match

Job summary

Oath Technologies in Berkeley, CA seeks Research Engineers to build and apply formal methods tools for AI oversight. You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative team that blends research and engineering, developing scalable verification solutions and proving new approaches on challenging problems.

You will contribute to tool design, testing, and deployment, while learning quickly and expanding your expertise in verification, programming languages, and AI risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Experience building formal methods tools for production environments.
• Direct experience with proof assistants (Lean, Coq, Isabelle), SMT solvers, or related tools.
• Background in programming language theory, or in taking formal methods from research into deployed systems.
• Experience working in research and/or engineering teams delivering ambitious results.
• An ability to learn quickly, build quickly, and pivot when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to Oath's research goals: building tools, applying them to real systems, and iterating based on what works.
• Help scale Oath's tools to large, long-running experiments intended to map the frontiers of AI oversight capabilities.
• Take deep ownership of problems, from framing the question, to overcoming obstacles, to delivering a working solution.
• Collaborate closely with a small, high-context team, including significant use of AI agents as part of the day-to-day workflow.
• Help set technical direction as the team and its workstreams grow, not just execute someone else's plan.
• Document your work and reasoning so it doesn't stay trapped in one person's head.

Skills

Formal methods

Proof assistants

PL theory

Research collaboration

Fast learner

Tools

Lean

Coq

Isabelle

SMT Solvers

Job description

Oath Technologies in Berkeley, CA seeks Research Engineers to build and apply formal methods tools for AI oversight. You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative team that blends research and engineering, developing scalable verification solutions and proving new approaches on challenging problems.

You will contribute to tool design, testing, and deployment, while learning quickly and expanding your expertise in verification, programming languages, and AI risk mitigation.