Research Engineer

September 13

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Chainlink Labs

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Finance • Fintech • Web 3

Chainlink Labs is a leading player in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. The company is pioneering the use of decentralized systems to facilitate onchain transactions for financial institutions and marketplaces. By collaborating with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols, Chainlink Labs is driving the transition to a tokenized asset economy and aims to become the global standard for onchain finance. With expertise in cryptography and a robust track record in security, Chainlink Labs provides a platform that powers a global system of onchain finance.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🌐 Web 3

📋 Description

• Work with Chainlink core engineering to identify short- and long-term research challenges critical to the company’s success and transition innovations from Chainlink Labs into production. • Work with research scientists and technical advisors to study, invent, and build cutting-edge oracle technologies. • Stay abreast of the evolution of relevant technology ecosystems and participate in relevant technical communities. • Build production solutions that keep Chainlink at the forefront of oracle system deployment and fuel the success of the smart contract ecosystem. • Collaborate with domain experts in applied cryptography, mechanism design (crypto economics), and distributed systems.

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. in computer science or equivalent professional experience along with coursework in algorithms and data structures and discrete math. • Familiarity with academic process and ability to engage with existing literature on relevant research topics, e.g. by performing literature searches and comprehending papers in a wider context. • Professional software development experience is required. • Advanced computer science or related degree and coursework in applied and theoretical cryptography, mechanism design, distributed systems, or related fields (preferred). • Familiarity with Go or Rust (preferred). • Broad knowledge of blockchain technologies and familiarity specifically with smart contracts (preferred). • Ability to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

🏖️ Benefits

• All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. • Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).