Onsite Formal Verification Cybersecurity Researcher

Sandia National Laboratories; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Flexible work arrangements

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories seeks a Computer Science researcher (R&D Cybersecurity) with expertise in formal methods to join our Digital Foundations & Mathematics group. The role focuses on developing formal verification for hardware and embedded software, publishing results, and collaborating across disciplines to tackle national security challenges.

The candidate will work on building and applying formal methods tools, contributing to analysis, synthesis, and high-performance computing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop formal verification capabilities that leverage domain-specific languages and interfaces to model checkers and theorem provers.
• Solve practical software and hardware engineering problems with real-world data using symbolic execution and discrete-event simulations.
• Engage capability development using languages such as Haskell, OCaml, Rocq, Python, C, Rust, Verilog, VHDL, NuSMV, and TLA.
• Evaluate emerging AI approaches to accelerate construction of formal models while maintaining high-assurance standards.
• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to address digital assurance problems with national security impact.

Skills

Haskell

OCaml

Rocq

Python

C

Rust

Verilog

VHDL

NuSMV

TLA

binary analysis

assembly languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

NuSMV

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories seeks a Computer Science researcher (R&D Cybersecurity) with expertise in formal methods to join our Digital Foundations & Mathematics group. The role focuses on developing formal verification for hardware and embedded software, publishing results, and collaborating across disciplines to tackle national security challenges.

The candidate will work on building and applying formal methods tools, contributing to analysis, synthesis, and high-performance computing