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03 September 2025
Kanazawa University, Faculty of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineering, Japan
Job Posting
- Start of employment: February 1st, 2026 or any early possible date afterwards.
- Deadline for application: September 12th, 2025
- Employment status:
- A full-time associate professor (tenured) or
- A full-time assistant professor (non-tenured, 5-year term)* * the employment period may be renewed depending on performance
.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Masahiro Mambo
More information: https://www.se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025091202_ec_en.pdf
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Job Posting
We are currently looking for an outstanding candidate for a 4-year PhD researcher position in the area of symmetric-key cryptography. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Lorenzo Grassi, towards a PhD degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
The research topics will focus on
- design dedicated symmetric-key primitives operating over prime fields and/or integer rings, that can provide efficient solutions for rising applications of practical importance such as Format Preserving Encryption, Multi-Party Computation, Homomorphic Encryption, and Zero-Knowledge;
- analyze the security of those symmetric-key primitives, with the goals to improve the current cryptanalytic results, and to develop new innovative security arguments.
(The implementation of those schemes will *not* be part of the PhD.)
We are looking for a candidate who has recently completed, or is about to complete, a master's degree in cryptography, mathematics, computer sciences, or a closely related field. The master's degree must have been awarded, with good results, before starting the PhD. The candidate must be highly motivated and be able to demonstrate their potential for conducting original research in cryptography.
The vacancy is open until a suitable candidate has been found. Applications will be screened continuously, and we will conclude the recruitment as soon as we find the right candidate. The starting date is negotiable (not before March 2026).
Interested and qualified candidates should apply at https://www.tue.nl/en/working-at-tue/vacancy-overview/phd-on-symmetric-cryptography-over-prime-fields-and-integer-rings?_gl=1*sdu9b*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTI2MTQxMjkxNy4xNzU2NDQ5ODI3*_ga_JN37M497TT*czE3NTY0NDk4MjYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTY0NDk4MjYkajYwJGwwJGgw
Closing date for applications:
Contact: For specific inquiries relating to the position, please email Dr. Lorenzo Grassi - email: l.grassi@tue.nl
(Important: Do *not* send your application via email!)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Job Posting
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Prof Wang Huaxiong: hxwang@ntu.edu.sg
Input-Output Group - remote
Job Posting
IOG, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.
About Partner Chains: IOG’s Partner chains Tribe is an innovation project built using Substrate. It aims to simplify blockchain deployment, operation and interoperability by combining modular technology with proven security, liquidity, and reliability. Partner Chains empowers developers and validators to create optimized blockchains without network or technology stack lock-in, fostering a new era of interoperable and scalable solutions.
As a Cryptographic Engineer you will contribute to the design, implementation, and integration of secure cryptographic protocols across Partner Chain initiatives. This role bridges applied research and engineering, focusing on translating cutting-edge cryptographic designs into robust, production-grade systems. The cryptography engineer will collaborate closely with researchers, protocol designers, software architects, product managers, and QA teams to ensure cryptographic correctness, performance, and system alignment. A strong emphasis is placed on high assurance coding, cryptographic soundness, and practical deployment readiness.
Who you are:Closing date for applications:
Contact: Marios Nicolaides
More information: https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/831252A3E6/
King's College London
Job Posting
Eamonn Postlethwaite and Martin Albrecht are looking to hire an intern for four months to work on the Lattice Estimator. The internship will be based at King’s College London and is funded by a gift from Zama. We are ideally looking for someone in a PhD programme also working on lattice cryptanalysis who is happy to interrupt their studies for a few months to help us improve the estimator. We’re offering a salary of roughly £4,400 per month before tax.
This would involve reviewing and closing tickets, reviewing the literature for what is currently missing from the estimator to add it and reviewing the code already there for correctness.
If you’re interested, please get in touch to discuss this position. We are somewhat flexible on timing.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Eamonn Postlethwaite <eamonn.postlethwaite@kcl.ac.uk> and Martin R. Albrecht <martin.albrecht@kcl.ac.uk>
More information: https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/internship-position-on-the-lattice-estimator/
NVIDIA; Santa Clara, CA or Remote, US
Job Posting
What you will be doing:
- Develop and optimize scalable high-performance cryptographic primitives, algorithms, and building blocks on the latest GPU hardware architectures.
- Emphasize robust long-term software architectures and designs that effectively utilize many generations of hardware.
- Work closely with internal teams (product management, engineering) and external partners to understand feature and performance requirements and deliver timely cuPQC releases.
- PhD or MSc degree in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related science or engineering field is preferred (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience designing and developing software for cryptography in low-latency or high-throughput environments.
- Strong mathematical foundations.
- Advanced C++ skills, including modern design paradigms (e.g., template meta-programming, SFINAE, RAII, constexpr, etc.).
- Strong collaboration, communication, and documentation habits.
- Experience developing libraries consumed by many users.
- Experience with CUDA C++ and GPU computing.
- Programming skills with contemporary automation setups for both building software (e.g., CMake) and testing (e.g., CI/CD, sanitizers).
- Strong understanding of mathematical foundations and algorithms used in cryptography, including but not limited to finite field arithmetic, lattice-based cryptography, and cryptographic hash functions.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Lukasz Ligowski
More information: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/Senior-Math-Libraries-Engineer--Post-Quantum-Cryptography_JR2002083
King's College London
Job Posting
We are recruiting a postdoc to work with us on “practical advanced post-quantum cryptography from lattices”.
Here “advanced” does not mean Functional Encryption or Indistinguishability Obfuscation, but OPRFs, Blind Signatures, Updatable Public-Key Encryption, even NIKE (sadly!).
We are quite flexible on what background applicants bring to the table
- Do you like breaking newfangled (and not so newfangled) lattice assumptions?
- Do you like to build constructions from those assumptions?
- Do you like to reduce lattice problems to each other?
- Do you think we can apply tricks from iO or FE to less fancy protocols?
All of that is in scope. If in doubt, drop us an e-mail and we can discuss.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Martin Albrecht <martin.albrecht@kcl.ac.uk>
More information: https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/postdoc-position-in-lattice-based-cryptography-2/
University of Surrey, UK
Job Posting
The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineeringis seeking to recruit a full-time lecturer in Cyber Security to expand our team of dynamic and highly skilled security faculty and researchers. This post is part of a strategic investment of six academic posts across the School in the areas of Cyber Security, AI, Robotics, and Satellite Communications.
The Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS), within the School, has an international reputation in cyber security and resilience research excellence in applied and post-quantum cryptography, security verification and analysis, security and privacy, distributed systems, and networked systems. SCCS is recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre as an Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) and as an Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE). Its research was also a core contributor to Surrey’s 7th position in the UK for REF2021 outputs within Computer Science. Surrey was recognised as Cyber University of the Year 2023 at the National Cyber Awards and is again shortlisted for 2025.
This post sits within the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security and this role encourages applications in the areas of systems security, web security, cyber-physical systems, cyber resilience, ethical hacking, and machine learning for security. We welcome research with applications across diverse domains, particularly communications, space, banking, and autonomous systems. Candidates with practical security experience and skills will complement our existing strengths in cryptography and formal verification.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Professor Steve Schneider s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk
More information: https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=14998