Security Research Internship
certik
New York, NY / Seattle, WA / San Francisco Bay Area, CA / Remote
Posted Aug 24, 2022
- Other
- Remote
Job description
**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. ### 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. ### Requirements - Pursuing Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Cybersecurity related field. - Experiences in vulnerability discovery and exploitation on web applications or system software. ### Preferred - Experiences in WASM or Rust/Go development is a plus. - CTF experiences are a plus as well.