Research Intern, Crypto
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies across AI bio healthcare consumer crypto enterprise fintech games and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $44B in assets under management across multiple funds.
The Role
a16z crypto research is a new kind of multidisciplinary lab that bridges the worlds of academic theory and industry practice to advance the science and technology of the next generation of the addition to fundamental research we collaborate with portfolio companies to solve hard technical and conceptual problems. Research interns will have the opportunity to learn from the firms investment and engineering teams although this is a research role with no responsibility for investment decisions. We are seeking students with a strong research background and an interest in blockchains and web3 to join the group for the summer. Specific research areas of interest include cryptography security distributed computing economics (both micro and macro) incentives quantitative finance political science and governance and market and mechanism design. This list is not exhaustive and we encourage applicants with different backgrounds who may have unique perspectives on the space to apply.
To join our team you should be excited to:
- Pursue fundamental research on topics relevant to the firm
- Collaborate with a16z cryptos full-time researchers and other student interns
- Collaborate with portfolio companies on technical research problems
- Contribute to blog posts white papers and other public expository content
- Meet with visitors from academia and industry and attend seminars
Preferred Qualifications
- Enrolled in a PhD program in a relevant field such as computer science economics mathematics operations research political science etc. (Exceptional masters and undergraduate students will also be considered.)
- Passionate and knowledgeable about blockchains/Web3 and their underlying technologies
- Familiar with fundamental research and publishing in peer-reviewed conferences and journals
Internship Details
- A typical schedule will have an intern spending ⅓ of the time pursuing their own research (typically in collaboration with other lab members) ⅓ of the time collaborating on portfolio-related problems and ⅓ of the time meeting with visitors/attending seminars etc.
- In-person residency required in New York NY
- Duration of internship June 2 2026 August 21 2026 (minimum residency 10 weeks maximum 12 weeks)
- The anticipated weekly rate for this role is $4000 per week plus a $500 per week housing stipend actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience skills and scope
Materials to upload
- Resume/CV
- List of Publications/Blog Posts/Any Public Content (optional but recommended)
- Twitter github personal website public crypto wallet (optional)
- Research statement (1-page max PDF optional but recommended)
- Letters of recommendation (1-2 letters optional but recommended): recommenders should email their letters of support to with the name of the applicant in the subject line
- For full consideration please submit applications by November 10 2025
a16z culture
- We do only first class business and only in a first class way
- We take a long view of relationships because we are in the relationship business
- We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
- We are all different we recognize that and we win
- We celebrate the good times
- We do it for the team
- We play to win
At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity age marital or family status disability Veteran status and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves our portfolio companies and the World.
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Andreessen Horowitz hereby reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.
Required Experience:
Intern
Key Skills
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- C/C++
- Data Collection
- Research Experience
- Signal Processing
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning
- Tensorflow
About Company
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
