About the company
Nillion is a secure computation network that is fundamentally changing the way high-value data is stored and used throughout the world. Processing transactions via blockchain was the tip of the iceberg of what information and industries decentralized technology and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) can impact. The Nillion network expands these technologies into new use cases and verticals like AI, biometric data, health data, voting, consumer data and more.
Job Summary
Requirements
📍5+ years of academic research experience in cryptography 📍Qualified to a PhD or Postdoc degree in cryptography 📍Several international scientific publications 📍Deep understanding of MPC 📍Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English 📍Extensive experience working with internal and external stakeholders 📍Have highly effective communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills 📍Ability to understand, formally describe and prove mathematical concepts in writing 📍The ability to write formal security proofs in the UC framework 📍Publications in the domain of MPC, ZKP or FHE
Responsibilities
📍Developing new protocols and their security proofs 📍Creating variants of existing protocols (synchronous/asynchronous, computational/ITS, passive/active, static/mobile adversaries, boolean/arithmetic, etc.) 📍Verifying existing Nillion protocols and their security proofs 📍Proof-reading existing written material (e.g. technical whitepaper) 📍Writing new security proofs for existing Nillion protocols 📍Optimizing existing protocols for performance 📍Giving internal presentations for educational purposes 📍Participating in brainstorming sessions for new ideas
