Ritual is hiring a
Research Intern in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a researcher in AI and cryptography at Ritual, a company building a sovereign layer for AI. The role involves prototyping new mechanisms, collaborating with the engineering team, and releasing work into the open-source world.

Requirements

• Intellectually curious about the latest advancements in machine learning, cryptography, and how they intersect
• Desire to see your research go beyond academic papers and have a tangible impact
• Experience with taking research projects or experiments from ideation to prototype code, or implementation either on your own or coordinating with engineering teams
• Quick iteration and development cycles on writing and/or proof-of-concept

Responsibilities

• Prototype new mechanisms
• Work to productionize your research
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product team
• Release your work into the open-source world and build alongside the Ritual community

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus points if you have existing research or writing in conferences or journals
• Have some level of comfort with algebraic structures, distributed systems, mechanism design, or statistical modeling

Benefits

• Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure hardened by cryptographic schemes
• We work completely in open-source and ship weekly
• Maximize your knowledge gradient around fields that typically would not intersect
• We’re open to exceptional people of all backgrounds for research (e.g. high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees)