# Research Intern

**Company**: Ritual
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with its private testnet already live and running.

The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI.

As a Research Intern at Ritual, you will:

- Prototype new mechanisms and work to productionize your research

- Operate at the frontier of modern cryptographic schemes and open-source AI

- Collaborate closely with the engineering and product teams to ensure your research has real-world impact

- Release your work into the open-source world and build alongside the Ritual community

You should be:

- Intellectually curious about the latest advancements in machine learning, cryptography, and how they intersect

- Motivated to see your research go beyond academic papers and have a tangible impact

- Experienced in taking research projects or experiments from ideation to prototype code or implementation, either independently or coordinating with engineering teams

- Able to quickly iterate and develop proofs-of-concept

Nice to have:

- Existing research or writing published in conferences or journals

- Comfort with algebraic structures, distributed systems, mechanism design, or statistical modeling

By joining Ritual, you will:

- Be part of a team building the next generation of AI infrastructure hardened by cryptographic schemes

- Work completely in open-source and ship weekly

- Maximize your knowledge across fields that typically don't intersect

Ritual is open to exceptional individuals of all backgrounds for research internships.

## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- cryptography
- open-source AI
- algebraic structures
- distributed systems
- mechanism design
- statistical modeling

### Nice to have
- existing research or writing in conferences or journals

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