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title: 'Compliance Engineer Intern at CertiK'
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# Compliance Engineer Intern at CertiK

- **Company:** CertiK
- **Location:** Europe / Asia
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/certik/0b497f25-210b-408e-b2c3-e005c841d867

## Job description

## 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.

## Responsibilities

- 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.

## Requirements

- 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.

## About CertiK

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CertiK is the largest Web3 security platform, providing end-to-end audit, compliance, and monitoring services for blockchain projects and financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $303.7M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017 (incorporated as Certified Kernel Tech LLC; LinkedIn lists 2018)
- **Founders**: Prof. Zhong Shao (Yale University) and Prof. Ronghui Gu (Columbia University)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Blockchain Security, Cybersecurity, Web3 Infrastructure, Compliance & Risk Management
- Target customers: B2B – crypto exchanges, DeFi protocols, stablecoin issuers, custodians, enterprises adopting DLT, and public blockchain ecosystems (e.g., Aptos, Ripple, Sandbox, Polygon, BNB Chain, TON)
- Mission/Purpose: “Security, compliance, and risk management for every stage of your Web3 journey” – from launch to scale, enabling projects to build with confidence, integrity, and real-time insights.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Contract Audits**: Manual code review combined with AI‑powered analysis and optional formal verification; supports Solidity, Rust, Go.
- **Formal Verification**: Proprietary hacker‑resistant kernel technology (CertiKOS) derived from academic research at Yale and Columbia.
- **Penetration Testing**: In‑depth assessment of off‑chain components, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Web3 applications.
- **SkyNet**: Real‑time security scoring and monitoring for 17,000+ projects (1.8M monthly active users).
- **SkyInsights**: On‑chain AML/CTF compliance, risk analytics, and transaction monitoring (300M+ address labels, 4,000+ incidents detected since 2020).
- **Proof of Reserves**: Attestation services for exchanges and custodians.
- **Bug Bounty Platform**: Fully managed platform with 0% fees on payouts, connecting projects with a global ethical hacker community.
- **DLT Advisory**: Strategy, architecture design, and security assessments for institutions building or integrating distributed ledger technology.
- **Validator & Node Operations**: Managed infrastructure for blockchain networks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Over $2 billion (source: LinkedIn, citing leading investors).
- **Key Metrics** (public data):  
  - Annual Revenue: $3.9M (LinkedIn estimate)  
  - Total Funding: $303.7M across 10 rounds (latest Series B in April 2022 led by Tiger Global Management and SoftBank Vision Fund)  
  - $483B market cap assessed, 115,000+ vulnerabilities detected, 90,000+ security audit findings  
  - 5,000+ enterprise clients, 500+ applications secured, 100M+ users protected  
  - Team of 125 employees ( +10.9% YoY growth) across 28 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Goldmann Sachs, Shunei Capital, Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Hillhouse Investment
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded into AML/CFT compliance (SkyInsights), SOC 2 Type II compliance, and regulatory partnerships in US, Singapire, Hong Kong, Japan, Abu Dhabi, Korea.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Academic Foundaton**: Founded by leading formal‑verification researchers from Yale and Columbia; CertiKOS is a hacker‑resistnt concurrent OS with published peer‑reviewed results.
- **Full‑Lifecycle Security**: One vendor for audits, monitoring, compliance, bug bounties, and node operations – reduces integration complexity for Web3 projects.
- **Scale & Trust**: Largest Web3 security auditor with >5,000 clients, industry recognition (clients inclue Aptos, Ripple, Polygon, BNB Chain).
- **Regultory Alignment**: Proactive invoement in global crypto policy (MiCA, DORA, HKSCF, MAS) gives clients a compliance edge.
- **Dual‑Layer Defense**: Combines AI‑drive analysis with manual expert review and optional formal‑verification – a rarer deep‑tech approach.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Compliance Sute**: Adding real‑time AML monitoring, risk intelligence, and regulatory advisory to capture institutional and enterprise demand.
- **Deeping AI/Formal Methods**: Leveraging AI to automate more of audit pipeline while maintaining formal verification rigor.
- **Geographic Scope**: Growing regulatory relationships in Asia, Middle East, and Europe to serve global VASPs.
- **Product Diversifiction**: Moving from single‑poit audit services to a full “security + infrastructure” platform (nodes, validators, bug bounties).

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful Mission**: Work on security that protects hundreds of billions in digital assets – directly shaping trust in decentralized finance.
- **Cutting‑Edge Technology**: Daily exposure to formal verification, AI security, blockchain internals, and both Web2/Web3 infrastructure.
- **Global & Remote‑Friendly**: Employees across 28 countries; office in New York but distributed workforce (remote‑first culture likely based on hiring patterns).
- **Career Growth**: Roles from Engineer III to Principal; senior positions in Blockchain Security Engineering (Solity, Rust, Golang) and Formal Methods.
- **Acadamic‑Industry Bridge**: Collaborate with founders who are active professors – access to latest research and top conferences.
- **Perks & Culture**: Not explicitly listed, but professional bug bount platform with 0% fees and team of respected security researchers suggests merit‑based, technically rigorous environment.

## Sources
1. [certik.com/company/about](https://www.certik.com/company/about) – Founders, background
2. [certik.com](https://www.certik.com/) – Products, metrics, client list
3. [certik.com/faq](https://www.certik.com/faq) – Service descriptions
4. [linkedin.com/company/certik](https://www.linkedin.com/company/certik) – Revenue, funding, employee count, valuation
5. [jobs.lever.co/certik](https://jobs.lever.co/certik) – Current job openings

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