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**Internship Program at Nomadic Labs**

**About Nomadic Labs**

**Nomadic Labs** is a leading research and development center in Paris, dedicated to advancing the Tezos protocol within an international, decentralized, and vibrant ecosystem (such as the Tezos Foundation, Trilitech, and others). With a focus on core development, our mission is to enhance security, scalability, and functionality across the Tezos ecosystem.**Internship Overview**
- The internship program offers an exciting opportunity to join our engineering teams, contributing to the development of the Tezos blockchain. Interns will:- Collaborate closely with experienced engineers on innovative projects.
Gain hands-on experience in blockchain, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation.
Implement prototypes and make meaningful contributions to the Tezos blockchain.
Be considered for junior engineering positions upon successful completion of the internship, with a minimum starting salary of €55,000.
All internships are in-person with possibility of remote work one day per week.

**Expectations and Skills**- A solid understanding of computer science principles.
Ideally, experience or coursework in modern programming languages, particularly in **OCaml **and **Rust **- experience in **Scala **or **Haskell **are also considered relevant.
Should be in the final year of master studies, PhD students are also very welcome.
Fluent in Technical English.
Strong interest in Web3 and Blockchain.
Experience working in an agile environment is a plus.
Sense of collaborative work, continuous learning, and effectiveness.

**Skills You’ll Develop**:
Software Engineering (continuous delivery, code reviews, test driven development, team work)
-Blockchain Protocol Design and Implementation (Layer 1 & 2)
-Secure Distributed Systems & Networking (Gossipsub, libp2p)
-Rust/OCaml Programming (Prototyping)
-Scripting & Automation (Bash, Python, Ansible)
-Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
-CI/CD Pipelines & Cloud Infrastructure (GitLab, Capacity Planning)

**Internship Topics**Core Layer 1**:
- The Core Layer 1 team is focusing on the “Layer 1” of Tezos. This layer offers a secure settlement layer for the full stack. It is a full-fledged blockchain equipped with a fast and secure proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, an on-chain governance mechanism, and a smart contract execution platform, all this running on top of a P2P permissionless network.- Proposed internship topics:_**Proposer Lotteries**: Prototype different Proposer lottery mechanisms and compare their performance and properties under various network conditions.
- **Parallelized Operation Validations**: Design and implement a system for validating multiple operations simultaneously to enhance throughput and scalability.

**Core Layer 2**:- Proposed internship topics:_**Gossipsub Protocol**: Define a clear model or specification for the Gossipsub protocol and derive property-based tests for validation.
- **EVM Node in Rust**: Prototype the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) node in Rust and compare its performance with the existing OCaml implementation.
- **DAL Node in Rust**: Prototype the Data Availability Layer (DAL) node in Rust, migrating it from OCaml and comparing performance with the existing version.

**Core Tezos X**:

- The Core Tezos X team is preparing the next iteration of the Tezos blockchain. The current focus is on the implementation of a fast and secure RISC-V proof-generating virtual machine and on an hypervisor for proof-generating virtual machines.- Proposed internship topics:_**Optimizing RISC-V interpreter (written in Rust).** Explore several techniques of optimization for the RISC-V interpreter in a wide range starting from low-level micro-optimizations to fine tuning of runtime code generation.
- **Hypervisor of proof-generating virtual machines. **Prototype a concept of hypervisor for the proof-generating virtual machines that are at the heart of the Smart Rollups technology. Demonstrate parallelization and adapt the fraud detection system to handle parallelization.

**Engineering Infrastructure**:
- The Engineering Infrastructure creates the condition for the software engineers to move fast. This includes tooling and online services that are typically expected to implement a continuous delivery practice.-
**Monitoring & Alerting**: Create new dashboards or improve existing ones for non-critical systems, refining alerts to ensure accurate thresholds.
- **Infra Playbook**: Improve incident response playbooks and enhance onboarding materials for new team members.
- **Automating Non-Critical Tasks**: Identify and automate repetitive, low-risk tasks using scripts (bash, Python, or Ansible).
- **CI/CD Pipeline Improvements**: Optimize or improve non-critical CI/CD pipelines by refactoring parts or reducing execution times.
- **Capacity Planning**: Perform capacity planning analysis to identify trends in resource usage and make scaling recommendat