Formal Methods (Lean 4) Expert
Mercor (client confidential) · Remote
- Pay
- $95/hr
- Commitment
- hourly
- Source
- mercor
About this role
## Role Overview Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to strengthen expert-level reasoning in frontier models. We are hiring formal-methods experts to author and review challenging formal-verification and theorem-proving problems and to evaluate AI-generated proofs and formalizations for correctness and rigor. ## What You'll Do - Design expert-level problems in formal methods: theorem proving, program verification, and formalization of mathematics - Review problems authored by peers for clarity, genuine difficulty, and ground-truth correctness - Evaluate and compare AI model outputs (proofs, tactics, formalizations), delivering Accept / Revise / Reject verdicts with detailed written rationale ## Ideal Qualifications - Strong background in formal verification / interactive theorem proving, with hands-on experience in Lean 4 (and mathlib), Coq, Isabelle, or Agda - Familiarity with type theory, mathematical logic, and program verification - Strong technical writing and meticulous attention to detail
Skills & domains
- ai-training
- rlhf
- sme
- annotation
- Life, Physical, and Social Science