Security Engineering Internship at World in San Francisco, CA

Summary: 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. 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 Required Qualifications: - 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 Qualifications: - Prior hands-on use of RiscZero, Succinct, Boundless, or other zkVM frameworks Required Skills: Verifiable compute, Rust programming Important Skills: Critical thinking, Communication skills Nice-to-Have Skills: RiscZero, Succinct, Boundless, zkVM frameworks, Cross-functional collaboration, Fast-paced environment