# Research Intern, Summer 2027

Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to deliver significant improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in Series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team. We’re the team behind Monad, a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1. We write the core software that runs it: a parallel-execution EVM, a custom state database, and a BFT consensus client, all developed in the open. The Role We’re hiring Summer Research Interns to pursue advanced research in mechanism design, cryptoeconomics, distributed systems, programming languages, cryptography, and governance. This list isn’t exhaustive; if you bring a valuable and relevant perspective, we encourage you to apply. This internship offers a rare chance to work at the frontier of decentralized systems: advancing the underlying science and technology while delivering real impact at scale. Research projects will draw on the challenges of building a first-of-its-kind blockchain, as well as new directions that decentralized systems make possible. You’re also welcome

- **Id**: 3909597
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/category-research-intern-summer-2027>
- **Role**: Early Careers
- **Role family**: Early Careers
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T02:39:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T05:17:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5968
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Blockchain & Crypto, Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments, Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 39660
- **Name**: Category
- **Domain**: category.xyz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/category>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 4500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: week
- **Usd annual**: 234000

## Technologies

- **Ethereum** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Monad** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T05:46:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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