Chainlink Labs
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.
Research Engineer
Research EngineerResearch EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2017H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
179 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor DegreeExperience acceptedEnglishCloudDistributed SystemsLinuxOraclePythonRustSoliditySwiftType ScriptUnixWeb3Go
Job 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.
Job 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).
