Postdoc in AI-based formally verified code generation

Job description

AI is rapidly becoming the primary author of the world's software. Today's models generate code at a speed no human can match — but how can we trust code we did not write ourselves? Formal verification offers a path to mathematically guaranteed correctness, yet combining it with AI-based code generation raises deep and largely unsolved challenges.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will tackle exactly this question: how to generate code with AI and formally verify that it does what it should. Your work will combine modern AI/LLM-based code generation with formal methods to produce software that is both fast to create and provably trustworthy.

The position is part of SAFIR (Secure AI for Intelligent Resilience and Confidentiality in the Cloud), a EUR 2.5M collaborative project between KTH, Saab, Nvidia, Ericsson, Red Hat, CanaryBit and RISE, building next-generation secure and dependable AI for critical domains such as telecom, defence and cloud. You will join the Machine-Intelligence for Networks and Distributed Systems (MINDS) research group at the Department of Computing and Learning Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), in an international and dynamic environment with strong academic and industrial collaborations. You will have access to international supercomputing resources and a state-of-the-art in-house lab equipped with NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs and ten NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs.

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Candidate is able to collaborate with other researchers.
• Candidate is able to carry out work to a large degree in independence
• The candidate should be aware of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Research expertise in formal verification.
• Research expertise in AI.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Join us at KTH

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To apply for the position

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The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Cover letter, stating your expected date of doctoral graduation (PhD defence).
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Maximally two pages long.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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