Formal Verification Intern

Posted on 10/31/2025

Apple

Apple

No salary listed

London, UK

In Person

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, amazing people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every single day.

Description

In this highly visible role, you will be at the centre of a System-on-a-chip (SoC) design verification effort collaborating with design, with a critical impact on getting high quality and bug-free functional products to millions of customers quickly. While working on complete formal verification for single or multiple design blocks and IPs, you will collaborate with members of the team. Please read key responsibilities below to achieve desired outcomes. Our internship opportunities in the UK are available for 3-6 months at our London Bishopsgate site.

Responsibilities

  • Understand numerical hardware implementations
  • Create corresponding formal specifications
  • Develop formal verification plans
  • Prove mathematical properties, find bugs and improve architectures together with design teams
  • Design novel and innovative solutions for verifying sophisticated numerical hardware
  • Implement re-usable and optimised formal models and verification tools

Minimum Qualifications

  • Strong background in logic or mathematics
  • Experience developing rigorous proofs
  • Good knowledge of at least one programming language
  • Excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication in English
  • Currently enrolled in penultimate year of a Master's or PhD Degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Electronic Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Understanding of formal methods/formal verification for real-world systems
  • Understanding of computer architecture and operating systems
  • Understanding of algorithms, data structures, and programming paradigms
  • Experience with Theorem Provers such as Lean, Rocq, or Isabelle
  • Experience using Generative AI for improving the productivity or quality of your work