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Mission

You will be working on a research grant from Innosuisse on the topic of "Self-recovery of end-to-end encrypted vaults". This work entails helping develop cryptographic algorithms in collaboration with the C4DT team, a laboratory (Professor, PhD candidates, Research Software Engineers, semester students) writing software libraries and applications, and evaluating them through user tests. The duration of the grant is 2 years.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Supporting research with experiments and evaluations

• Writing of libraries and documentation

• Managing parts of the project

• Participating in other C4DT related projects (open source services evaluation, server maintenance, workshops organization, ...)

Profile

• Higher education in computer science or equivalent

• Very good expertise in cryptography: elliptic curves, zero knowledge proofs, post quantum algorithms

• Interest in the topics of C4DT: digital trust in general, Open Source Software, digital sovereignty

• Excellent command of several programming languages (Golang, Rust, Typescript), test-driven development, automatic deployment

• Intelligent use of LLM tools as support for your work, not as replacement

• Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new technologies

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Working knowledge of French or German is welcome

We offer

• A small, dynamic and friendly team (fresh bread most Mondays)

• A stimulating and engineering- focused working environment

• Integration in larger community of Research Software Engineers

• An opportunity to develop skills and experience in innovative knowledge transfer and exchange approaches, in a world-class and highly sought-after organization

Informations

Contract Start Date : 08/01/2026

Activity Rate Min : 60.00

Activity Rate Max : 80.00

Contract Type: CDD

Duration: 1 year, renewable

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