Apple

Formal Verification - AI/ML Engineer

Apple$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field; 10+ years industry experience
  • Hands-on experience building AI/ML applications with LLMs
  • Proficient in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch
  • Strong mathematical foundation or formal methods background
  • Genuine interest in domain-specific AI applications
  • Software engineering best practices expertise
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

  • Build AI applications leveraging LLMs for formal verification workflows
  • Develop and fine-tune LLM-based systems for hardware verification
  • Collaborate with verification engineers to identify AI opportunities
  • Prototype AI-driven approaches for property synthesis and specification translation
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging AI research into production tools
  • Establish best practices for AI development within the organization

Benefits

  • Work on cutting-edge AI technologies in a collaborative environment
  • Opportunity to influence formal verification practices at Apple
  • Be part of a mission-driven team focused on productivity and quality
  • Access to resources and support for professional development
  • Engagement with leading experts in both AI and hardware verification
Full Job Description
Apple's Hardware Technologies Formal Verification team is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to work at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Formal Verification. In this role, you will explore, prototype, and build AI-powered systems - with a focus on Large Language Models - to augment and transform how formal verification is performed on Apple Silicon.\nYou will work closely with formal verification engineers, design engineers, and EDA tool developers to identify high-impact opportunities and deliver practical, domain-specific AI applications.

You will be responsible for: Building domain-specific AI applications that leverage LLMs and other ML techniques to accelerate formal verification workflows - from specification interpretation to property generation, proof debugging, and beyond. Developing and fine-tuning LLM-based systems tailored to hardware verification tasks, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic tool-use frameworks, and domain-adapted models. Collaborating with formal verification engineers to deeply understand FV methodologies, pain points, and opportunities where AI can meaningfully improve productivity, quality, and coverage. Prototyping novel AI-driven approaches for tasks such as automatic SVA property synthesis, natural-language-to-formal-specification translation, proof strategy recommendation, and intelligent counterexample analysis. Evaluating and integrating emerging AI/ML research into practical, production-quality tools and workflows used by the FV team. Establishing best practices and infrastructure for AI application development within the FV organization.

A minimum of a bachelor's degree in relevant field and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.

Strong hands-on experience building AI/ML applications, particularly those leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) - including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG architectures, agentic systems, or LLM-based tool chains. Demonstrated ability to take AI capabilities from prototype to production - you have shipped or deployed AI-powered tools or applications, not just trained models. Proficiency in Python and modern ML/AI frameworks and tooling (e.g., PyTorch, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or similar). Background in formal methods, mathematical logic, or a strong mathematical foundation - whether through academic training (e.g., formal methods, type theory, automated reasoning, mathematical logic) or applied experience. You don't need to be an FV expert, but a quantitative and rigorous mindset is essential. Genuine interest in domain-specific AI applications - you are excited about going deep into a specialized engineering domain rather than building general-purpose AI products. Software engineering best practices - version control, testing, API design, and building maintainable, collaborative codebases. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - you will work across disciplines with FV engineers, design engineers, and tooling teams. Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity - you will need to identify opportunities, propose solutions, and drive them forward. Experience working on or contributing to LLM tooling, frameworks, or infrastructure (e.g., inference engines, model serving, evaluation harnesses). Prior exposure to hardware design or verification concepts (RTL, SystemVerilog, assertions, EDA tools). Familiarity with formal methods, SAT/SMT solvers, model checking, or theorem proving. Experience with code generation or analysis tasks using LLMs. MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - though exceptional industry experience is equally valued.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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