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Systems Verification & Concurrent Kernel Architecture Research Intern

San Jose-US · Intern · Internship

Sponsorship not specified$38k-$46kDetected 47 days ago
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About the role

  • JOB DESCRIPTION About NIO NIO is a pioneer and a leading company in the premium smart electric vehicle market.
  • This internship is a 3-month intensive study to determine the practical limits of using automated formal methods to guarantee the safety of concurrent kernel primitives.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing or completed a PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field with relevant research projects and publications.
  • Low-Level Systems Mastery: Deep proficiency in C
  • ability to reason about memory alignment, volatile keywords, and hardware interrupts.
  • Formal & Logical Rigor: The ability to model software as a discrete state-machine.
  • You must be a detective capable of pruning models to find one-in-a-billion interleaving failures.
  • Deep proficiency in C
  • The ability to model software as a discrete state-machine.
  • ability to reason about memory alignment, volatile keywords, and hardware interrupts. You should be comfortable reading ARMv8 assembly to ensure compiler optimizations haven't compromised synchronization.
  • Concurrent Intuition: A visceral understanding of L1 / L2 cache coherency (MESI), lock hierarchies, and why a "correct" C program can fail on weak-memory hardware if barriers are missing.
  • Formal & Logical Rigor: The ability to model software as a discrete state-machine. You should prefer a "proof of absence" (no bugs exist) over a "proof of presence" (one test passed).
  • The Researcher's Grit: Persistence in the face of "state space explosion" or cryptic model-checker errors. You must be a detective capable of pruning models to find one-in-a-billion interleaving failures.

Skills

  • NIO is a pioneer and a leading company in the premium smart electric vehicle market.
  • Transitioning a kernel from a monolithic "Big Kernel Lock" to fine-grained concurrency is a high-risk engineering challenge.
  • Traditional testing is mathematically incapable of catching the non-deterministic "Heisenbugs" inherent in parallel execution.
  • Using SMT-based tools to achieve high-assurance "push-button" verification without the years-long overhead of manual theorem proving.
  • Roles and Responsibilities

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $38.00 - $46.00.
  • Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
  • Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only. It does not include discretionary bonus, equity, or benefits.
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