Research Assistant
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Department
- Department of Computing
- Rank
- Research Assistant/Associate
- Position type
- Full-time
- Reference
- 260714024
- Application deadline
- 21 Jul 2026
Duties & Responsibilities
- Assist the project leader in researching price manipulation mitigation in Ethereum decentralized finance applications.
- Conduct research and engineering on software and blockchain security.
- Design, implement and deploy scalable security analysis frameworks and software systems.
- Develop automated analysis, testing, and evaluation pipelines using program analysis, fuzzing, differential testing and AI-assisted software analysis.
- Contribute to open-source software, prototype deployment, benchmarking and research publications.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience in software security, program analysis, software testing and/or fuzzing.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Go or Python.
- Preference given to those with experience building research prototypes or software systems.
Appointment
- Contract — three months
Key Dates
- Not specified