MIT Employee Roles: There are currently no open roles

Independent Contractor Roles: There are currently no open roles

We, the DCI, do not directly process applications for MIT. If you are interested in applying to MIT, please visit the MIT Admissions page

We offer:

• MIT Undergraduates: UROPs (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) - Please find all MIT UROP details here. Each UROP lasts a semester, but we encourage UROPs to return for multiple terms.

• MIT Graduates: Research Assistants (RA) - View some of our past RAs’ theses here. We mostly work with students who have completed one UROP term with us before entering into an MEng position.

• Non-MIT Undergraduates Co-ops and Graduate Collaborations - Undergraduates and graduate students can gain valuable experience from working in their field of interest with the DCI. We have already worked with students from MIT, Northeastern, UMass Amherst, and Boston University. You must already be enrolled actively in a program at another institute to partake in these roles.

To apply for student roles, please email your CV and the following details to dci@media.mit.edu, with “Interested Student CV/Resume” as the subject.

1) Type of opportunity (UROP, MEng, Co-ops, etc.)

2) Academic term of interest

3) Your school, program, and expected graduation date

4) Location during appointment *** We can not currently accept any student workers who are not physically in the US during their employment/appointment ***

5) Your relevant experience (please also share your GitHub if applicable)

6) DCI research area of research or desired mentor

As an MIT student you can apply for student research opportunities and join the below:

1. DCI slack channel- MIT email addresses only

2. DCI weekly research seminar meetings - Please email dci@media.mit.edu with your resume.

3. MIT Bitcoin Club - weekly seminars and yearly conferences

4. MIT Sloan Blockchain Club - weekly seminars and yearly conferences

Get involved with Bitcoin development!

• Clone Bitcoin Core and start hacking: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/

  • Please consider lurking for a while before opening a PR/Issue!

• Bitcoin-dev mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev?pli=1

• Join IRC channel: #bitcoin-core-dev on Libera

• Review club: Safe, welcoming environment to learn about hacking on Bitcoin 

  • Wednesdays @1PM ET on IRC https://bitcoincore.reviews/

Community events! 

Please keep an eye out for DCI-sponsored conferences and events. Here are a few other excellent event resources: 

• Join your local cryptocurrency meetup!

• Check out the Bitcoin and Blockchain Events Calendar

• Boston BitDevs (Boston, MA) | Meetup

Code with the DCI:

DCI Tips: Coding on these projects could lead to being scouted for upcoming student researcher positions before they are announced!

Get involved on Github to learn and talk to our researchers: DCI Github. Current projects to contribute to:

• OpenCBDC: Lead researcher Sam Stuewe (Project Language C++)

View theGitHub repo here