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Job Description

Digital currencies like Bitcoin have captured the imagination of the press. Related startups are generating a great deal of VC interest and investment because of the potential significance of any disruption of the financial payment industry. Its fundamental technical innovation is the decentralized transaction ledger called the ‘block-chain’. It allows bitcoin to prevent double-spending of currency by recording all transactions in an open ledger without the need for a central authority. Such a distributed, public, secure, peer-to-peer transaction record enables not just the exchange of bitcoins but many secondary uses that the research and startup community are exploring such as digital marketplaces.

The Special Innovations Projects group within Intel Labs is looking for an intern to investigate hardware and software capabilities that advance the performance, robustness, and scalability of open, decentralized ledgers. Working with a team of distributed systems, operating systems, and security technologists, you will have an opportunity to conduct research in areas including cryptographic protocols, distributed consensus, and applications of decentralized data stores.

The ideal candidate must have good communication and interpersonal skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

– Candidate must be enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields.

– Must have at least 1 year of work experience and technical depth in the areas of distributed systems, distributed databases, cryptography, or operating systems.

– Must have 1 years of proficiency developing System & Application SW.

Preferred Qualifications:

– Familiarity with distributed consensus algorithms, trusted execution environments, or fault tolerant replication.

– Familiarity with operating system design and implementation.

– Familiarity with cryptographic protocols for identity verification.

Job Types: Internship.

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