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title: 'Engineering Intern - General / AI at Allium'
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# Engineering Intern - General / AI at Allium

- **Company:** Allium
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/allium/5d697ce5-b820-45c0-a101-86a05e1fb15e/application

**Skills:** Programming, SQL, Blockchain Data Analysis

> Allium seeks an Engineering Intern to collaborate with the founding team in accelerating AI efforts for blockchain data. The role involves working on production-ready infrastructure to standardize onchain finance data, supporting finance, engineering, and strategy teams with reliable, audit-grade answers and low-lat...

## Job description

THE 4 BIGGEST BLOCKCHAIN STRENGTHS ARE ALSO ITS WEAKNESS

- Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning
- Decentralization leads to too many standards https://xkcd.com/927/
- Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity
- Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations

Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.

BLOCKCHAINS ARE OPTIMIZED FOR WRITES, NOT READS.

They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668. Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result:

- Fragmented standards
- Exponential complexity
- No accountability for interpretation
- Events without economic meaning

Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record.

ALLIUM IS BUILDING THE SYSTEM OF RECORD FOR ONCHAIN FINANCE

Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history. We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record:

- Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income
- Standardization Gap: Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema
- Infrastructure Gap: Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale
- Accountability Gap: Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance

The result is a neutral, canonical data layer institutions can build on with confidence.

## FINANCE IS MOVING ONCHAIN

Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly. Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets. Raw blockchains cannot serve that role.

As AI agents begin transacting autonomously https://x.com/AlliumLabs/status/2019810793324482901?s=20, the requirement becomes even stricter. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.

Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.

## WHO WE SERVE

Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:

1. Finance, Accounting, and Risk Teams They need reliable, audit grade answers. They rely on Allium for financial reporting, reconciliation, compliance, risk monitoring, and defensible metrics that can stand up to auditors and regulators.
2. Engineers and Product Teams They need low latency, production ready infrastructure. They use Allium to power wallets, trading systems, payment rails, staking infrastructure, and real time applications that cannot break.
3. Strategy, Research, and Executive Teams They need clarity and insight. They use Allium to understand ecosystem economics, market structure, user behavior, competitive dynamics, and where capital is flowing onchain.

And of course...agents 🦞. Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

We love to empower our interns as full time engineers and treat them with the highest standards and expectations. You’ll work closely with our founding engineering team to accelerate Allium's AI efforts to make blockchain data easy to query & understand.

If you want to get a front row seat into a startup, go for it!

DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY ABOUT US (HTTPS://WWW.ALLIUM.SO/BLOG#LOVE) https://www.allium.so/blog#love

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WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT US:

- The Information's Top 50 Startups (https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-to-the-informations-50-most-promising-startups-of-2025)
- Mario Gabriele from The Generalist's Future 50 Startup List: https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-awardee-of-the-generalists-inaugural-future-50-startups
- Tomasz Tungus from Theory Ventures: https://tomtunguz.com/allium/
- Bucky Moore from Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/allium-series-a/

OK, NOW FOR SOME TOUGH LOVE. HERE ARE THE VALUES WE STRIVE FOR AT ALLIUM:

- Obsessiveness - The best people at Allium cannot put a problem down once they pick it up. We care more about the work than is strictly rational. Institutions trust us because our data is right. Right means caring about the small things. The decoded contract that ships with one wrong field. The label that is 99% accurate but wrong on the address that matters. The query that runs in 4 seconds when it should run in 400 milliseconds. Most companies tolerate these. We do not.

Obsessiveness shows up as depth of care. It is not measured in hours worked or visible effort. You should feel something physical when work ships half-right. That instinct is what we hire for.

- Pro Athlete Mindset - Consistency. Day in and day out, in pursuit of excellence. A win yesterday does not guarantee (or even imply!) a win tomorrow. I hope anyone who supports a failing sports team will feel the pain (cough Man United fans) of inconsistency
- Figure It Out & Extreme Ownership - Every day is unexplored territory. There are new engineering frameworks, new legal docs, new compliance, new sales, new regulations, and new operational procedures every single day. If you don’t know it, learn it. If you can’t learn it, find someone or a product that does it. If you can’t find someone, find someone who can find someone. It is never a lack of resources, but lack of resourcefulness.
- High Agency - (One of) the highest commonalities between all successful people is their responsiveness. Most successful billionaire CEOs still reply to emails within minutes (within working hours). And when you reply, respond fast with effective solutions - and even better, resolutions. If you’re looking for a superpower, you can’t go wrong with responsiveness. Well of course this doesn't make sense when you're an engineer coding in flow, but in general high agency of problem solving gets one very far in life
- Leading from the Front - No one is going to listen (and adopt) your suggestion unless you lead by example. It’s one thing to say We need to do XYZ this better & it’s another thing to build an MVP and say “This is the way we should do things”. The proof of work and momentum goes a long way.
- Strong Opinions On the Future (loosely held) - It is okay to be wrong, but what is not okay is not to have an idea of how a better future should be. Alliumites take pride in trying to improving everything about the company all the time.
- Sense of (Allium) business smell - There are number of folks who live to eat at Allium, but the Allium smell we are talking about is that we love folks who naturally want to know why and how the work they are doing builds leverage for their teammates and also relates to the business goals

## ABOUT THE TEAM

We invite people of all backgrounds (https://www.allium.so/about). We have engineers who learnt coding much later in life, who learnt coding on the side, we have engineers who are still in school and we also have engineers who went to the top schools (CMU, Stanford, UIUC, UPenn, Oxford, NUS, Cornell), all are welcome if one comes in with a curious mind and an infectious work ethic.

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## ADMINISTRATIVE BENEFITS

- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents
- Ownership - Meaningful early-stage equity. Every full-time employee receives a stock option grant so you can share directly in Allium's upside
- Time off - Flexible, trust-based paid time off. We encourage people to take the rest they need. In every country we hire, our policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation requirements
- Retirement - Company sponsored 401(k) plan in US so you can save pre-tax for the long term

Note: The sun never sets on Allium - we hire from any geographical location as long as you are willing to overlap 2 hours overlap on NYC mornings Mon-Thurs from 10am-12pm ET. We have people based in New York, Seattle, Singapore and Australia.

All applicants have to answer this pop quiz: "What is an Allium? What is your favorite Allium? https://www.allium.so/post/how-allium-got-its-name". Bonus points for the right pronunciation.

## About Allium

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Allium provides enterprise-grade blockchain data infrastructure, indexing and cleaning raw data from over 150 blockchains to deliver accurate, actionable onchain intelligence for institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ethan Chan (CEO) and Cheng Han Lee (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Data Infrastructure and Analytics, Blockchain Data
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (financial institutions, fintechs, wallets, exchanges, audit firms, consulting firms, stablecoin issuers, custodians, asset managers, hedge funds, government regulators)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To surface what’s real on the blockchain by separating economic signal from noise, providing institutions with verified, auditable, and production-grade data.

## Products & Services
- **Allium Core**: A unified data platform providing general SQL access to indexed blockchain data across 150+ chains and 10,000+ decoded protocols.
- **Allium Insights**: Interactive visualization dashboards for onchain analytics (e.g., stablecoin flows, DeFi adoption, wallet activity).
- **Allium Monitor**: Real-time alerting capabilities for complex on-chain events.
- **Allium Terminal**: A tool that turns blockchain noise into actionable intelligence.
- **APIs & Data Streams**: Real-time APIs and data feeds for wallets (e.g., MetaMask, Phantom), exchanges, and payment processors to power production applications.
- **Data Shares & Streams**: Data delivered to any destination (Snowflake, etc.) at any latency.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $20.8M (Series B of $40M announced, but details pending; prior $16.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures in July 2024, and $4.2M Seed round in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Theory Ventures, Markd, a16z crypto (uses Allium for State of Crypto report), Paradigm (co-authored research), Visa (stablecoin dashboard), Federal Reserve (cites Allium in analyses), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), MoonPay, MetaMask, Phantom, Grayscale, BCG, Big Four accounting firms.
- **Growth Signals**: 120% YoY headcount growth (48 employees), operates in 9 countries, manages 4+ petabytes of data, one of Snowflake’s top five data providers by volume, SOC 1 & 2 Type 1 and 2 certified, 99.9% uptime.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Accuracy**: Independent research found 0.000011% data deviation on Allium vs. 7%+ for community-built alternatives.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 1 & 2 Type 1 and 2 certified, auditable methodology, documented change management, self-healing data pipelines.
- **Breadth & Depth**: 150+ blockchains, 10,000+ decoded protocols, 4+ petabytes under management.
- **Institutional Trust**: Cited by the Federal Reserve, used by Big Four accounting firms, major fintechs, and leading crypto wallets.
- **Speed to Market**: Customers can launch 3-6 months faster by using Allium instead of building their own blockchain data infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding institutional adoption, deepening stablecoin and DeFi analytics, scaling data coverage across more blockchains, and strengthening partnerships with regulators and financial institutions.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the standard for enterprise blockchain data, powering everything from regulatory compliance to real-time wallet applications and investment research.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “By builders, for builders” – a team of engineers and data scientists from Meta, Google, Primer, and Poynt, focused on solving hard infrastructure problems.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Offices in New York, Singapore, and remote-friendly. Operates across 9 countries.
- **Notable Perks**: Work on cutting-edge blockchain data infrastructure used by top-tier institutions (a16z, Visa, Federal Reserve). High ownership and impact in a fast-growing company (120% YoY headcount growth). Opportunity to shape the data layer of the crypto economy.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on data accuracy, reliability, and production-scale systems. Tech stack includes SQL, dbt, Snowflake, and modern data infrastructure tools.

## Sources
1. [allium.so](https://www.allium.so/)
2. [allium.so/about-us](https://www.allium.so/about-us)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/allium](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/allium)
4. [linkedin.com/company/alliumlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/alliumlabs)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/allium/__e1S8iBf2GALTUadlV0aesYRtEEhsq7_SyHZC2S1qXDI)

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