Security Research Internship
CertiK is a Web3 security platform providing blockchain and smart-contract audits, formal verification, compliance and risk intelligence, monitoring, and validator services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About CertiK
CertiK is a New York-based Web3 security company founded in December 2017 by professors from Yale and Columbia. Its current offerings include smart-contract and blockchain audits, formal verification, penetration testing, DLT security, KYC and regulatory compliance services, SkyInsights risk analytics, Skynet security intelligence, validator operations, AI Auditor, CertiK Hunt, and Skylens.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Work on security research topics including malware analysis, vulnerability detection, network anomaly detection, mobile app analysis, reverse engineering, and fraud detection. Compensation is $3,000–$8,000 per month.
Requirements
- Pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related Cybersecurity field.
- Experience in vulnerability discovery and exploitation on web applications or system software.
Responsibilities
- Develop analysis tools to facilitate security discovery and design mitigation techniques to deter security threats.
- Review implementations of sandboxes, virtual machines, network modules, and critical distributed systems.
- Perform vulnerability discovery and develop proof-of-concept exploits for large distributed system implementations.
- Publish research findings in academic and industry venues.
- Conduct malware analysis.
- Detect vulnerabilities and network anomalies.
- Analyze mobile applications and perform reverse engineering.
- Investigate fraud detection techniques.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with high deductible plan
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Flexible paid time off and holidays