Chainlink Labs

Research Engineer

Chainlink Labs

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsGoLinuxOraclePythonRustSoliditySwiftTypeScriptUnixWeb3

About the role

  • 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).