Research Internship

About the Role

Chainlink Labs is seeking Research Interns to support its mission of building the world’s most secure and flexible decentralized oracle technologies. Research Engineers will work directly with top domain experts in applied cryptography, mechanism design (cryptoeconomics), distributed systems, and other disciplines to identify and solve key research challenges and build production solutions that keep Chainlink at the forefront of oracle system deployment and fuel the success of the smart contract ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with Chainlink core engineering to identify short- and long-term research challenges critical to the company’s success and to transition innovations from Chainlink Labs into production.
• Working with research scientists and technical advisors to study, invent, and build cutting-edge oracle technologies for the benefit of the company and community.
• Staying abreast of the evolution of relevant technology ecosystems and participating in relevant technical communities for more effective application development and to guide research toward practical and impactful work.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• Coursework in algorithms, data structures, and discrete math.
• Familiarity with academic process and ability to engage with existing literature on relevant research topics (e.g., performing literature searches and comprehending papers in a wider context).
• Professional software development experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced computer science or related degree.
• Coursework in applied and theoretical cryptography, mechanism design, distributed systems, or related fields.
• Familiarity with Go or Rust.
• Broad knowledge of blockchain technologies and familiarity specifically with smart contracts.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• We use Go, Typescript, Solidity, Python, LATEX, git, and Linux/Unix.
• All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
• Overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).