Research Interns

Job Description

Research Internship | Chainlink Labs

The Tone:
This is a Research Internship at Chainlink Labs, located remotely and globally. Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform, bringing capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The company provides essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, and payments. This Research Internship supports Chainlink’s mission to build the world’s most secure and flexible decentralized oracle technologies, contributing to identifying and solving key research challenges and building production solutions. The role is crucial for keeping Chainlink at the forefront of oracle system deployment and fueling the success of the smart contract ecosystem.

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

• Team: Research Interns will collaborate with top domain experts in applied cryptography, mechanism design (cryptoeconomics), and distributed systems.
• Mission: 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
• Identify: Pinpoint short- and long-term research challenges critical to Chainlink’s success in collaboration with core engineering.
• Transition: Facilitate the transition of innovations from Chainlink Labs into production solutions.
• Innovate: Study, invent, and build cutting-edge oracle technologies alongside research scientists and technical advisors.
• Monitor: Stay abreast of the evolution of relevant technology ecosystems and participate in technical communities for effective application development and to guide research.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor of Science in computer science or equivalent professional experience, along with coursework in algorithms, data structures, and discrete math.
• Experience: Professional software development experience is required, coupled with familiarity with the academic process and the ability to engage with existing literature on relevant research topics.
• Skills: Algorithms, data structures, discrete math, professional software development.
• Bonus: Advanced computer science or related degree; coursework in applied and theoretical cryptography, mechanism design, or distributed systems; familiarity with Go or Rust; broad knowledge of blockchain technologies, specifically smart contracts.