Research Engineer

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 to identify and solve key research challenges and build production solutions that keep Chainlink at the forefront of oracle system deployment.

Overview

Department

Research

Job type

Full time

Compensation

Salary not specified

Location

United States, North America

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About Us

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.

Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked amongFortune's Best Workplaces in Technology,Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and theTop 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more atchain.linkorchainlinklabs.com.

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.

Additional Information

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 ourwhitepaper. We are well recognized for providing highly secure and reliable blockchain connectivity to the world's largest enterprises such asGoogle,Oracle, SWIFT, and many more.

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).

We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes.The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application.We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.

Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via thisform.

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