8 months ago
San Jose, CA, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Formalize locking protocols in TLA+ and Spin to prove the absence of deadlocks and circular waits.
- Apply ESBMC and CBMC bounded model checking to C source code for data races, pointer-safety issues, and invariant violations.
- Verify memory-barrier placement across ARMv8 and RISC-V hardware memory models.
- Use LLMs to synthesize formal invariants and environment harnesses, then audit the results for logical soundness.
- Analyze concurrency state-space explosion and investigate rare interleaving failures in kernel primitives.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing or have completed a PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, with relevant research projects and publications.
- Deep proficiency in C, including memory alignment, volatile keywords, and hardware interrupts.
- Ability to read ARMv8 assembly and assess whether compiler optimizations compromise synchronization.
- Strong understanding of L1/L2 cache coherency, MESI, lock hierarchies, weak-memory hardware, and memory barriers.
- Ability to model software as a discrete state machine and reason rigorously about formal proofs and model-checker failures.
Benefits
- Three-month, full-time research internship.
- Work focused on high-assurance concurrent-kernel verification and automated formal methods.
Tech Stack
C
Categories
About NIO Inc.
NIO Inc. builds and sells premium smart electric vehicles, plus services such as Battery-as-a-Service and autonomous driving subscriptions. The public company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Jiading, Shanghai, designs, develops, and jointly manufactures models like the ES8, ET5, and ET7, and operates in China and parts of Europe; its shares trade on the NYSE and Singapore Exchange.