About the Company

Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia University and Yale University, CertiK is a leading Web3 security company focused on securing blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications through cutting-edge security research, formal verification, and AI-powered technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides end-to-end security solutions including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance services for some of the largest projects in the digital asset ecosystem.

Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation.

About You
You are a hands-on compliance professional who understands how regulatory frameworks and licensing applications work from initial scoping through final submission readiness. You can turn complex regulations into clear guidance and client deliverables, manage both structured audit requests and fast-changing BD needs, and know when an issue requires escalation to senior Compliance or Legal.

About the Role
You will be the first-line compliance owner for AI outputs and related client deliverables. You will support stakeholder groups including client-facing teams and commercial services. You will turn the raw AI output into accurate and usable deliverables, and work as/with Engineering to convert recurring compliance work into reusable workflows and knowledge assets. 

• 3 or more years of Engineering experience in compliance, regulatory consulting, digital assets, fintech, financial services, compliance audit, or a law firm.
• Hands-on experience with at least 1 licensing application, regulatory registration, or end-to-end regulatory-readiness project.
• Strong understanding of regulatory analysis, evidence review, and licensing documentation.
• Ability to produce clear guidance, mappings, presentations, and client reports.
• Strong client communication and cross-functional project-management skills.
• Ability to manage urgent and ambiguous requests from client-facing team while maintaining quality.
• Strong written and spoken English; professional Chinese proficiency is preferred but not required.
• Familiarity with digital-asset regulation, VASP licensing or similar frameworks is preferred.
• Basic understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination risk, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review.

This role must be performed outside the United States. We are unable to consider candidates who will work from within the U.S.

About the Company

Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia University and Yale University, CertiK is a leading Web3 security company focused on securing blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications through cutting-edge security research, formal verification, and AI-powered technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides end-to-end security solutions including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance services for some of the largest projects in the digital asset ecosystem.

Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation.

About You
You are a detail-oriented self-starter with a strong interest in regulatory compliance, digital assets, and AI. You are comfortable researching unfamiliar regulatory topics, organizing complex information, and producing clear first drafts. You are eager to learn how licensing applications and compliance reviews work in practice and can support both structured audit requests and fast-changing client-facing needs.

About the Role
You will support the Engineering team in regulatory research, licensing analysis, AI output review, and client-deliverable preparation. You will work with client-facing teams, compliance reviewers, and Engineering to organize regulatory knowledge, prepare initial drafts, and convert recurring compliance work into reusable mappings, templates, and workflows. All material regulatory conclusions and client deliverables will be reviewed by an experienced compliance professional.

• Research and summarize regulatory frameworks and licensing requirements.
• Support licensing and regulatory-readiness projects, including applicability research, gap analysis, evidence requests, policy review, and application-document preparation.
• Organize regulatory requirements into structured modules, evidence categories, checklists, and mappings.
• Review AI outputs for factual consistency, source traceability, missing information, and formatting issues.
• Prepare initial drafts of compliance analyses, evidence guidance, client reports, pitch-deck content, and review materials.
• Support the maintenance of regulation-to-service mappings, evidence checklists, and submission-material reuse mappings.
• Organize customer-provided materials and identify potential evidence gaps for reviewer confirmation.
• Record reviewer feedback and update templates, evaluation cases, and compliance knowledge assets.
• Support coordination and request tracking across client-facing teams, compliance reviewers, and Engineering.
• Escalate unclear regulatory interpretations and unsupported conclusions to experienced reviewers.

• Current enrollment in or recent graduation from a program in law, finance, accounting, risk management, public policy, business, computer science, or a related field.
• Strong research, analytical, and structured-writing skills.
• Strong attention to detail, particularly when reviewing regulatory sources, citations, and customer materials.
• Ability to organize complex information into clear checklists, summaries, presentations, and reports.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines.
• Strong written and spoken English; professional Chinese proficiency is preferred but not required.
• Interest in digital-asset regulation, financial compliance, licensing, or AI-assisted compliance workflows.
• Familiarity with digital-asset regulation, VASP licensing, or similar regulatory frameworks is preferred.
• Previous internship, coursework, or project experience in compliance, law, audit, fintech, digital assets, or regulatory research is preferred.
• Basic understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination risk, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review is preferred.

This role must be performed outside the United States. We are unable to consider candidates who will work from within the U.S.

About the Company

One of the fastest-growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security, CertiK is a true market leader. To date, CertiK has worked with over 4,798 clients, secured over $597 billion worth of digital assets, and has monitored over 17,000 projects. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Yearn, and Chiliz.

Investors = Insight Partners, Sequoia, Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Lightspeed, Advent International, SoftBank, Hillhouse Capital, Goldman Sachs, Shunwei Capital, IDG Capital, Wing, Legend Star, Danhua Capital and other investors.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Solidity Compiler Frontend Engineer to join our team working on cutting-edge blockchain compiler infrastructure and formal verification tools. You will participate in developing and optimizing the frontend components of Solidity compilation pipelines, with a focus on static analysis, type checking, and integration with formal verification systems.

• Design and implement frontend components for the Solidity compiler, including lexical analysis, parsing, AST generation, and semantic analysis.
• Optimize compiler performance and improve error reporting and diagnostics.
• Develop integration layers between the Solidity compiler and formal verification tools.
• Contribute to the evolution of Solidity language features and specification.
• Collaborate with security researchers to implement static analysis and security checks.
• Maintain and improve existing compiler infrastructure and tooling.

• 3+ years of professional experience in Solidity compiler development or related compiler projects (e.g., EVM-based languages, smart contract compilers)
• Strong proficiency in Java with deep understanding of Java based compiler development and optimization
• Solid foundation in compiler theory, including parsing techniques, type systems, and intermediate representations
• Experience with formal methods or formal verification tools (e.g., SMT solvers, theorem provers, or verification frameworks)
• Strong understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and smart contract execution models
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Experience with LLVM or similar compiler infrastructure
• Knowledge of programming language semantics and type theory
• Contributions to open-source compiler projects
• Experience with Solidity or other blockchain programming languages

• Opportunity to shape the national conversation on blockchain and security.
• Collaborate with industry-leading security researchers, technologists, and global institutions.
• Flexible work environment and mission-driven culture.

Compensation: If the role is performed in the US, the target annual compensation is $140,000 - $220,000. The exact compensation at which this job is filled will be determined by the skills and experience of qualified candidates.

#blockchain

#startups

#hiring

CertiK accepts applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

CertiK is proud to offer medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) plan with company matching, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, HSA (with high deductible plan), FSA, and other benefits to all full-time employees, along with flexible paid time off and holidays. CertiK also offers a variable commission program for business development sales roles.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

CertiK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.

CertiK will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.

https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf

All CertiK employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

Why us? 

Blockchain technology is enabling a rapidly-growing era of innovation for the digital world. It is crucial that blockchain code such as protocols and smart contracts are provably secure and correct. Once deployed, they are public and cannot be changed. Vulnerabilities and bugs in such programs regularly put millions of dollars at stake. This is where CertiK comes in. We are the leading blockchain security company. Our goal is to secure the cyber world by applying cutting edge techniques from academia to secure blockchain code. Come and join this ambitious mission as a research software engineer to work on automated analyses for provably secure and correct blockchain applications! 

What you will do

You will design and develop tools that automatically ensure the correctness of smart contracts or identify security issues and bugs in smart contracts. We have software engineer positions available at all levels of seniority. Title and responsibilities will be commensurate with experience and background.

As part of our multinational team of programming language experts, you will participate in the development of tools that rest upon techniques such as symbolic model checking, SAT/SMT solving, abstract interpretation, data flow analysis, and deductive verification. You will have the opportunity to work on all stages of tool development from idea generation to implementation and iterative improvements. Our team is highly supportive and collaborative with great opportunities to learn and grow.

About you

You have a background in programming language theory and automated reasoning and love to work on the forefront of applying results from theoretical computer science. You love to tackle computationally hard problems and have a proven track record of achieving results, where results are people using your tool to do their jobs. You are collaborative: you share ideas, love to brainstorm with peers, and give and receive feedback. You are comfortable with the unknown and understand that #startuplife means that you will be wearing multiple hats.

• Extend the scope and depth of our automated program verification tools and brainstorm, design, and implement new tools.
• Adapt and improve algorithms for symbolic software model checking. Examples include bounded model checking (BMC), counterexample-guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR), and property directed reachability (IC3/PDR).
• Build and extend translators from different input languages into intermediate representations, optimizing the generated models for automated analysis.
• Identify new classes of security properties of smart contracts and formalize properties for use in our automated verification tools.
• Closely collaborate with other software engineers in developing tools and set technical direction for solving problems in consultation with your team and management.
• Work on all aspects of delivering working software that meets customer needs, including analysis, design, automated testing, operations, CI/CD, measuring results, incorporating customer feedback, and support.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or 5 years of equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of software development experience (includes internships, software developed during research, and open-source development).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with one or more of the following: model checking, formal verification, SAT/SMT solving (Z3, CVC4, Yices, MathSAT, SMTInterpol), abstract interpretation, or closely related disciplines. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of fundamental computer science concepts such as data structures, algorithms, mathematical logic, and automata theory.

• PhD in the broader field of automated reasoning.
• Publication record in conferences like POPL, CAV, TACAS, FMCAD, FM, etc.
• Experience in functional programming (OCaml or Haskell).
• Strong and creative problem-solving skills; always willing to learn and embrace new technologies and to collaborate.
• Prior experience in a professional software development environment.

About the Company

Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness. 

Compensation

Target annual base salary for this role performed in the US is $115,000 - $230,000.

The exact compensation at which this job is filled will be determined by the skills and experience of qualified candidates.

#LI-Remote

#blockchain

#startups

#hiring

CertiK is proud to offer medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) plan with company matching, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, HSA (with high deductible plan), FSA, and other benefits to all full-time employees, along with flexible paid time off and holidays. CertiK also offers a variable commission program for business development sales roles.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

CertiK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.

CertiK will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.

https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf

All CertiK employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.