Engineering Internship, Ava Labs
Summer 2025
Pay rate (USD): $30 per hour
3+ days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
Smart contracts platform for dApps
Posted today
Smart contracts platform for dApps
201-500 employees
Posted today
Pay rate (USD): $30 per hour
3+ days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance that enables the world to have a more prosperous future.
Role
Who you are
- Must be enrolled in a computer science bachelor’s degree program
- Must be able to work in our NY office in a Hybrid work format
Desirable
- GPA of 3.5 or above in a Computer Science degree program
- Must be familiar with concurrency
- Strong interpersonal skills (examples: leading a student organization or working successfully in teams)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Ability to work cross-functionally with different groups and teams
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements
- Ability to work independently and in a team, take initiative, and communicate effectively
What the job involves
- Join us for a unique paid spring/summer internship that offers the opportunity to contribute to the fastest blockchain in the industry
- As an intern, you will work closely with the Platform Engineering Group and other employees who will help you apply your knowledge and grow your skills on projects that have potential to have direct impact on the business
- You’ll also get to have some fun and network through optional social events
- If you’ve demonstrated a commitment to academic success and motivation to apply your knowledge outside of the classroom, you are a great candidate!
- Our Platform Engineering Group (PEG) that this internship is assigned to works on a variety of interesting problems that only the blockchain industry can provide
- They work on innovating areas, such as; Consensus, Cryptography, Storage, P2P networking, EVM design, SDK, and Interoperability
Our take
The highly secure and decentralized nature of blockchain technology makes it an attractive prospect for financial projects - but historically, this has come with a compromise on transaction speed and scalability, with Ethereum and Blockchain speeds barely breaking into double digits per second.
Ava Labs’ open-source platform Avalanche enables companies to launch decentralized applications with all the benefits of blockchain, whilst processing a record-smashing 4,500 transactions per second. The company's strategy has been to tailor its blockchain to specific applications, establishing a reputation in the sector through efficient hard-and-fast use cases with low fees. This has allowed it to operate alongside blockchain giants like Ethereum that hoard large amounts of the DeFi market.
In answering the strong appetite for a cheaper and more scalable blockchain consensus, Ava Labs has found a keen audience, and secured the ability to pursue its goal of opening the space up to more users. The Avalanche platform has become the first to partner with Amazon Web Services, becoming part of a project to bring blockchain technology to government and enterprises. The company also partnered with digital identity verification provider Blockpass, to collaborate towards furthering the safety, security and capabilities of the ecosystem.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$350m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$230m
LATE VC
Total funding: $586m
Company benefits
- 401k (non-matching)
- Commuter Benefits
- Comprehensive Insurance
- Short-term/long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Happy Hour Fridays
- Team Activities
- Remote-friendly Networking
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote Friendly
- Volunteer Time-Off
Company HQ
Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
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Leadership
Kevin Sekniqi
(COO & Chief Protocol Architect)Former Researcher and Software Engineer at Microsoft and NASA, with a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.
Emin Gun Sirer
(CEO)Founder of Bloxroute Labs and professor at Cornell for 20 years with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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