Summary

About The Role

Our team in Palo Alto, CA, is looking for interns pursuing Masters or PhDs to join us in bringing the benefits of decentralization to the masses.

You'll join the Blockchain Core team and work alongside other engineers and researchers to solve complex problems in scalability, performance, reliability, and decentralization of Aptos L1. Our interns are critical contributors to our Open Source products.

Projects you may be working on:

Horizontally scaling the blockchain to increase the TPS multifold

• Improve the tooling to generate transaction load and benchmark TPS
• Produce a high-quality research paper on blockchain execution sharding

What were looking for:

• You are pursuing a Master or Doctorate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• You have strong computer science fundamentals (distributed computing, data structures & algorithms, etc) specific to the projects you are applying for in above
• Experience with a low-level programming languages such as Rust or C/C++
• You excel in executing independent research and coding up your solution
• You want to work in a fast-paced environment that values its employees and customers
• You are excited about the benefits of decentralization and curious about blockchain/web3 technology
• You are available to complete a 3-month internship starting in May/June 2024 and work at our Palo Alto, CA office

Skills

• C++
• Rust