Blockchain Security Apprenticeship

About Trail of Bits Trail of Bits helps secure the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.

As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. We help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.

Our team consumes, produces, and presents research as a natural part of doing business. When we make new discoveries or developments, we strive to share our knowledge and release our tools as open-source. It’s a practice that’s earned us industry accolades and helped contribute to our double-digit bottom line growth.

Role Our growing team is directing the future of blockchain security. We review blockchain code and smart contracts for security vulnerabilities. Between engagements, we build custom tools like Slither, Echidna, and Manticore to aid our process. Think of all of the security tools for x86 that you would have liked to have built yourself, but mature versions already existed. Few of those tools have been built yet for blockchain architectures. Join us to make a career-defining contribution. 

You will be at the forefront of blockchain security research. You will work alongside some of the best in the industry to review smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure code, and decentralized applications for security vulnerabilities, using both manual static analysis and our tool suite.

In the time between your engagements, you will work on self-study materials to further your understanding of the code, environment, and techniques used in professional software assurance audits. For the duration of the apprenticeship, you will be shadowing a senior security engineer, practicing in the off-hours, and reading on your own.

This is an intensive program designed to replace the two years of experience typically required of a Trail of Bits engineer; it is not an internship. You will be mentored by one of our senior security engineers, who will share their experience and help you to grow in the company.  This opportunity is intended for entry- to mid-level professionals with some experience in blockchain programming or operations. The ideal candidate is self-driven and is likely already learning how to use our tools and studying new programming languages.

We value communication with both Trail of Bits team members and customers, so you should enjoy working as part of a team.

Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusion Trail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.