Cryptographic Software Engineer
PrivateAI is a crypto AI platform for processing, analyzing, and monetizing research and other data assets. It uses knowledge graphs and privacy-preserving techniques, and offers data marketplace, analytics, and collaboration features for researchers, data contributors, AI companies, and enterprises.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Funding history
About PrivateAI
PrivateAI develops an AI-driven knowledge-graph platform that helps users upload, structure, search, visualize, and analyze unstructured research data. Its ecosystem includes a data marketplace where contributors can share and sell datasets, with payments and incentives using the PGPT token. The platform emphasizes privacy by design, access controls, encryption, and planned fully homomorphic encryption capabilities. It offers free, premium, and enterprise plans, serving individuals, small teams, research labs, data analytics and GenAI companies, healthcare organizations, and larger businesses seeking scalable AI and data-analysis capabilities.
Skills
About the Role
You'll directly contribute to advanced research efforts in data security, generating and evaluating new data privacy solutions, supporting product teams with security expertise, and solving complex cryptography-related challenges. You'll conduct novel research in the field, combining intellectual curiosity with practical, results-driven work that builds on existing knowledge to produce actionable benefits for end users.
Requirements
- Qualified software/cryptographic engineer with multi-year distributed ledger experience
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Well versed in data governance, quality, semantics, health data topics and related data transformation including methods of de-identification and privacy preserving analytics and computing
- In depth expertise in cryptographic design and analysis, cryptographic protocols, fully homomorphic encryption, encryption standards, secure computing, privacy-enhancing technologies
- Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities
- Programming experience in Java, C/C++, or Python
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP and Docker or Kubernetes
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- 5+ years of experience with security, encryption, architecture, and design
- Experience with encryption and decryption within AI and LLM environments
- Experience with fully homomorphic encryption
- Masters/PhD or equivalent education and experience in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field
Responsibilities
- Develop an original research agenda and directions, and perform independent analysis of products using cryptographic mechanisms
- Contribute to ongoing projects
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to ensure seamless integration and alignment of solutions with goals and best practices, and participate in implementation
- Design and implement cryptographic technologies and algorithms
- Communicate with subject matter experts and adopt innovations
- Stay at the forefront of emerging cryptography trends, technologies, and best practices, and apply this knowledge to enhance data protection strategies
- Provide expertise and guidance in cryptography, data security and privacy, encryption and adjacent areas for products
- Build resilient and scalable architecture, driving innovation and cost efficiency
Benefits
- Performance-dependent bonuses including commission from funding raised
- Vesting in the form of tokens
- Access to personal networks and prestigious memberships of the company, its advisors and the CEO
- Paid invitations to conferences or business events in global tech and finance hotspots