# Formal Verification - AI/ML Engineer

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. You 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. Description 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.

- **Id**: 2134750
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-formal-verification-aiml-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-04T13:17:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T19:47:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 188
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3753
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 835
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.218
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 273000
- **Max usd**: 542000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 890

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Formal Verification** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 187

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-09T01:28:51Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-09T01:39:59Z
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- Event: close; At: 2026-11-04T20:23:34Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-05T06:31:16Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T18:41:53Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-06T23:53:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.815
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 187
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:2, urgency, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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