Research Intern

Job Description

Research Internship | Chainlink Labs

The Tone:
This is a Research Internship at Chainlink Labs, located in a fully remote, global setting. Chainlink is recognized as the industry-standard oracle platform, playing a crucial role in bringing capital markets on-chain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The company develops essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards that enable advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, and stablecoins. This role is vital for supporting Chainlink’s mission to build the world’s most secure and flexible decentralized oracle technologies, identifying and solving key research challenges, and building production solutions to maintain its leadership in oracle system deployment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Location: Fully Remote, Global

• Team: Will work directly with top domain experts in applied cryptography, mechanism design (cryptoeconomics), and distributed systems.
• Mission: 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.
• Tech Stack: Go, Typescript, Solidity, Python, LATEX, git, Linux/Unix

What You’ll Actually Do
• Innovate: Collaborate with Chainlink core engineering to identify critical short- and long-term research challenges and transition innovations into production solutions.
• Research: Partner with research scientists and technical advisors to study, invent, and build cutting-edge oracle technologies for the benefit of the company and the wider community.
• Monitor: Stay abreast of the evolution of relevant technology ecosystems to inform application development and guide impactful research.
• Engage: Participate actively in relevant technical communities for more effective application development and to direct research toward practical applications.

The Must-Haves
• Background: B.S. in computer science or an equivalent professional background, complemented by coursework in algorithms, data structures, and discrete mathematics.
• Experience: Demonstrated professional software development experience is required, along with familiarity with academic processes and the ability to comprehend and engage with existing literature on relevant research topics.
• Skills: Strong foundational knowledge in algorithms and data structures, discrete mathematics, and professional software development.
• Bonus: An advanced computer science or related degree; coursework in applied and theoretical cryptography, mechanism design, or distributed systems; familiarity with Go or Rust programming languages; and a broad understanding of blockchain technologies, specifically smart contracts.