World · 9 hours ago
Security Engineering Internship
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.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinanceFinTechInternetPrivacy
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
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
World connects users through a privacy-focused network with secure digital asset management.
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Funding
Current Stage
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$135M2025-05-21Undisclosed· $135M
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