Lean Theorem Prover Engineer: AI-Enhanced Code Verification

DeepMind Technologies Limited; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus target 15%

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a talented researcher to formalize correctness and semantics in Lean with AI assistance from Mountain View, CA. You will work on verifying real-world codebases, translating languages like C/C++/Rust into Lean, and running large-scale experiments with AI-aided proof search.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or equivalent in CS or mathematics and have 3+ years of experience with Lean and AI agents, plus a track record of publications in top venues.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in computer science or mathematics.
• 3 years of experience with the Lean proof assistant.
• 3 years of experience with using AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Formalize correctness and security specifications of complex real-world systems in Lean with AI assistance.
• Encode the semantics of programming languages (e.g., C/C++/Rust) in Lean with AI assistance.
• Design and run experiments evaluating AI-driven autoformalization and proof search applied to verification of real-world codebases.
• Build infrastructure for applying formal verification at scale, translating code, orchestrating proof search, and integrating with Google-internal tools and models.

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Lean proof assistant

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a talented researcher to formalize correctness and semantics in Lean with AI assistance from Mountain View, CA. You will work on verifying real-world codebases, translating languages like C/C++/Rust into Lean, and running large-scale experiments with AI-aided proof search.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or equivalent in CS or mathematics and have 3+ years of experience with Lean and AI agents, plus a track record of publications in top venues.