Cryptography Research Engineer Intern (Fall/Winter 2024)

Join Ripple as a Cryptography Research Engineer Intern

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world.

The Role

The Cryptography Research Intern will be joining the RippleX Research team. RippleX operates on the belief that realizing the Internet of Value hinges on how easily new technology works for more people, and how effectively we can change the way the world operates today.

Responsibilities

• Explore the next generation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols to support the latest advancements required to further the state-of-art of XRPL and more broadly the crypto ecosystem.
• Collaborate with engineers and product teams to drive critical projects into a tangible roadmap.
• Design and write technical specifications and academic papers for innovative projects and independently develop proof of concepts to validate your research.
• Closely collaborate with the engineering team and be responsible for the implementation of your research.
• Provide review and guidance to the leadership to ensure business and strategic alignment.
• Set milestones for timely and on-budget completion of high-quality work.
• Be a representative of Ripple research in the community via active participation in standards bodies, academic conferences, social media, organizing and participating in workshops, hackathons, etc.
• Work with teams across the broader organization, including engineering, product, legal, compliance, finance, and business development to think beyond the technical design in delivering the best experience for our developers’ community.

Requirements

• Strong familiarity with the latest blockchain cryptography and security.
• Deep understanding of elliptic curve and pairing-based cryptography, multi-party computation, and threshold cryptography.
• Familiarity with privacy-enhancing technologies such as homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, federated learning, and zero-knowledge primitives.
• Skilled in Python, C/C++, Rust, or Go and familiarity with cryptographic libraries.
• A passion for and knowledge of decentralized technologies.
• An open-minded research approach and genuine intellectual curiosity with a mindset of continuous learning.
• Strong communicator, well-versed in communicating to varied audiences.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.
• Currently enrolled in a PhD program (Cryptography, Computer Security, Computer Science, Mathematics).

Preferred

• Understanding of the XRPL.
• Direct experience working in Crypto/Blockchain.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity.
• Comprehensive health and mental healthcare.
• Retirement benefits.
• Family forming and support benefits.
• Employee giving match.
• Mobile phone stipend.
• Generous vacation policy.
• Industry-leading parental leave policies.
• Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens.
• Professional development budget.
• R&R days.
• Generous wellness reimbursement.
• Weekly onsite & virtual programming.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.