About Us
Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the
decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the
industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain
computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain.
Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global
trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial
institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top
Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink
Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the
United States and United Kingdom.
About the Role
Chainlink Labs is seeking Research Engineers 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 (crypto economics), 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.
Your Impact
* 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 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.
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.
Our Stack
* We use Go, Typescript, Solidity, Python, LATEX, git, and Linux/Unix.
Smart contracts are on track to revolutionize how all agreements work, through
an entirely new system of technologically enforced contract guarantees.
Chainlink enables next-generation smart contracts that can be written about
any/all events in the real world, the details of our approach can be found in
our whitepaper. We are well recognized for providing highly secure and
reliable blockchain connectivity to the world's largest enterprises such as
Google, Oracle, SWIFT, and many more.
_Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer_
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