External Research Collaborator, Formal Mathematics – AI
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External Research Collaborator building AI pipelines that convert mathematics into verified Lean 4 code. Supporting RWS’s mission to unlock global understanding through language and content technology.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, scale, and maintain multi-agent AI pipelines translating complex mathematical texts into verified Lean 4 code
- Evaluate pipeline performance and diagnose verification and compilation failures
- Implement engineering solutions to improve autoformalization reliability
- Research and implement automatic tactic generation and domain-specific proof-search strategies
- Expand and curate the client’s dataset by formalizing missing mathematical results, theorems, and proofs
- Conduct peer reviews of AI-generated Lean statements and proofs
- Ensure mathematical faithfulness, proof integrity, logical validity, and code quality
- Promote idiomatic, modular reuse of the Mathlib library
- Collaborate with global mathematics, Lean, and Mathlib open-source communities
- Support domain-specific formalization projects in areas such as algebra, analysis, and topology
- Develop evaluation methodologies to benchmark machine-learning-driven formal reasoning tools
Requirements:
- Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a closely related quantitative field with a strong focus on formal methods, mathematical logic, or theoretical computer science
- Exceptional mathematical foundation with ability to understand, translate, and verify graduate-level mathematical proofs
- Hands-on practical experience writing formal proofs in Lean 4
- Familiarity with the design and structure of Mathlib
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python
- Experience working with LLMs, prompt engineering, and multi-agent developer tools
- Ability to manage open-ended research and engineering projects independently in a remote or collaborative setting
- Preferred: Active contributor to Mathlib or other formal proof repositories such as Coq or Isabelle/HOL
- Preferred: Background in Machine Learning for Code, Automatic Theorem Proving, or reinforcement learning for symbolic reasoning
- Preferred: Familiarity with compiler design, AST manipulation, or parser development in the context of Lean
- Preferred: Strong track record of open-source software contributions or research publications in formal methods, AI, or mathematics
Benefits:
- Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination policy
- Inclusive work environment focused on diversity and career growth
- Opportunity to collaborate with global mathematics, Lean, and Mathlib open-source communities
- Remote or collaborative working setting
- Professional and research collaboration opportunities








