The Automated Reasoning Group is seeking an applied scientist with broad interest and expertise in automated solving, interactive theorem proving, programming language semantics, machine learning and generative AI. You will combine your expertise with that of your coworkers to build new tools that solve code analysis problems previously considered beyond reach. Our application areas span all the way from Infrastructure as Code to high-performance cryptography written in assembly code, while our methods span from interactive theorem proving to automated test generation.
Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on AWS. They harness the power of the cloud to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. Using automated reasoning technology and mathematical proofs, AWS allows customers to answer questions about security, availability, durability, and functional correctness. We call this provable security, absolute assurance in security of the cloud and in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/
Key job responsibilities
- Work with customer teams to understand the nature of their software and the properties they need to establish of it.
- Identify tools and methods capable of addressing the verification needs of customers, including any novel analysis capabilities required.
- Use tools spanning from fuzzers to model checkers, to interactive theorem provers to establish program properties.
- Explore generative AI techniques to help customers formalize their requirements, find revealing tests, generate required boiler plate for testing and model checking, and find and repair program proofs.
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About the team
You will be working with a team of formal verification specialists spanning recently hired PhDs to industry veterans. Our vision is to provide solutions that are proven correct without compromising performance.
About the team
You will be working with a team of formal verification specialists spanning recently hired PhDs to industry veterans. You will work collaboratively to deliver results in the form of verified code and tools to accelerate code verification for our customer teams.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Discrete Mathematics, or a related discipline
- Experience with interactive theorem provers, particularly Lean or Coq
- Knowledge of one or more methods of defining semantics: operational, denotational, axiomatic, etc.
- Experience with automated software analysis techniques: abstract interpretation, data flow, model checking, etc.
- Experience applying machine learning and generative AI tools.
- Programming experience in languages targeting validation like Danfy, Lean, Spark, etc.
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