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World · 9 hours ago

Security Engineering Internship

positionUnited States
timeInternship
remoteRemote
seniorityIntern

World is building a real human network designed to accelerate people in the age of AI. The Security Engineering Internship will focus on developing a distributed analytics system for the Detection & Response team, working on blockchain-based verifiable compute for Detection Engineering.

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Responsibilities

Internship in our Detection & Response team to work on a distributed analytics system
Execute a smart contract that incentivizes any third party to run a specific set of code, against a specific set of data, publish the output, and prove that the calculation was done correctly
Help get a challenging and interesting project off the ground
Build an entirely new automated detection and response system
Protect the 17 million+ verified World ID users processing millions of identity and financial transactions a day
Rapidly scale to protect billions of users using trusted and untrusted hardware, much of which we will not own
Publish audit events to the public blockchain for the highest possible transparency and trust of the World ID system
Build decentralized detection & response using those logs while maintaining the strongest possible privacy protections

Qualification

Verifiable computeRust programmingCritical thinkingCommunication skillsRiscZeroSuccinctBoundlessZkVM frameworksCross-functional collaborationFast-paced environment

Required

Studying / researching / working with verifiable compute (e.g. zero knowledge ML or zero knowledge virtual machines)
Some exposure to Rust programming
Strong critical thinking and communication skills
Comfort working cross-functionally with different teams
Energized by working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Preferred

Prior hands-on use of RiscZero, Succinct, Boundless, or other zkVM frameworks

Company

World

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World connects users through a privacy-focused network with secure digital asset management.
dateFounded in 2019
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://world.org

H1B Sponsorship

World has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$135M
2025-05-21Undisclosed· $135M

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