Senior Software Engineer, Backend

World is a network of real humans, built on privacy-preserving proof-of-human technology, and powered by a globally inclusive financial network that enables the free flow of digital assets for all. It is built to connect, empower, and be owned by everyone. This opportunity would be with Tools for Humanity.

The AI & Biometrics team is building a biometric recognition system that can work reliably with more than a billion users and enables them to claim their free share of WLD. We use cutting-edge machine learning models deployed on custom hardware to enable high-quality image acquisition, identification, and fraud prevention, all while requiring minimal user interaction. We further leverage the latest cryptography methodologies to process biometric data in a privacy preserving, secure manner. We are building a biometric recognition and fraud detection engine that works on the 1bn people scale. Therefore, its performance needs to out-perform all the current recognition technologies. We leverage our powerful custom-made iris recognition and presentation attack detection device, the Orb, combined with the latest research from the field of AI and Deep Learning. Our uniqueness system is based on a state-of-the art privacy preserving cryptographic methodology - a custom implementation of anonymized multi-party computation (aMPC).

We are the team responsible for developing the backbone of the WorldID protocol and for designing, developing and implementing the integrations between the core system and its satellites. This means working directly with the Mobile, R&D, and infrastructure teams. As part of our daily work, we interact with best-in-class cryptography and distributed systems researchers with whom we collaborate to scale the WorldID protocol to billions of users.

*This role is an onsite in our Munich office

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