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Cryptography Researcher

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Fully-remote

Zama
Zama

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Job description

Zama is building a suite of open source products that enables developers to create privacy-preserving applications for any platform, from cloud to blockchain

Zama was founded by Pascal Paillier, a pioneer in FHE, and Rand Hindi, a serial privacy entrepreneur, and has a team of veteran cryptographers, including Nigel Smart, Marc Joye, Ilaria Chillotti and others.

Role Description
As a cryptography researcher, your job main responsibilities will be to:

  • Conduct research on broad cryptography topics, from FHE to ZK to blockchain and other things that could be useful for Zama.
  • Contribute to new Zama technologies and IP.
  • Help developers to turning new technologies into actual product offerings.
  • Publish in top conferences

Preferred experience

He / She / They should have:

  • PhD or equivalent in mathematics, computer science or cryptography
  • Strong experience building and implementing cryptographic techniques
  • Passionate about open source and research
  • Be a friendly team player
  • Be obsessed with making things that actually work for users

We are a full remote company but you should ideally be in an European time zone.


Recruitment process

Our recruitment process is outlined in detail here: https://www.zama.ai/post/how-we-hire-at-zama

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