Security Research Internship

CertiK • Seattle, NY

3d • $3,000 - $8,000

About The Position

About CertiK One of the fastest-growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security, CertiK is a true market leader. To date, CertiK has worked with over 3,200 Enterprise clients, secured over $310 billion worth of digital assets, and has detected over 60,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Yearn, and Chiliz. Investors = Insight Partners, Sequoia, Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Lightspeed, Advent International, SoftBank, Hillhouse Capital, Goldman Sachs, Shunwei Capital, IDG Capital, Wing, Legend Star, Danhua Capital and other investors. About the role We are seeking security research interns to join a top-notch security research team. We are working on a wide range of security research topics, including malware analysis, vulnerability detection, network anomaly detection, mobile app analysis, reverse engineering, and fraud detections. Multiple research tasks are ready to be explored.

Requirements

• Pursuing Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Cybersecurity related field.
• Experiences in vulnerability discovery and exploitation on web applications or system software.

Nice To Haves

• Experiences in WASM or Rust/Go development is a plus.
• CTF experiences are a plus as well.

Responsibilities

• Develop analysis tools to facilitate security discovery and design mitigation techniques to deter security threats.
• Review system implementation of sandbox, VM, network modules, and critical distributed system.
• Perform vulnerability discovery and develop PoC exploits to large distributed system implementations.
• Publish research findings in related academic and industry venues.

Benefits

• CertiK is proud to offer medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) plan with company matching, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, HSA (with high deductible plan), FSA, and other benefits to all full-time employees, along with flexible paid time off and holidays.
• CertiK also offers a variable commission program for business development sales roles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern