Apply to the Lagrange Internship Program
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At Lagrange, we believe the future of computation will be verifiable by design. From cryptography to artificial intelligence, defense systems to blockchain infrastructure, our research depends on one principle: mathematical truth as the foundation of trust.
Lagrange’s internship program offers rolling admission for exceptional researchers eager to help build that future and work at the frontier of cryptography. Interns contribute to designing and implementing systems in cutting-edge research areas such as zero-knowledge proofs, fully homomorphic encryption, lattice-based cryptography, and verifiable compute mechanisms, applied to AI, defense, and blockchain.
Participants gain access to the full suite of Lagrange’s resources to transform ideas into real-world impact and mentorship from top researchers. Learn more about the work accomplished in Lagrange’s 2025 internship program and 2024 internship program at our Engineering blog.
Why Intern at Lagrange
At Lagrange, interns don’t work on mock exercises or theoretical exercises detached from application. They collaborate directly with the cryptographers, engineers, and scientists advancing the frontier of verifiable computation.
Interns work alongside experts from Yale, HKUST, UIUC, and beyond—gaining hands-on experience in succinct zero-knowledge proofs and their applications across AI, databases, blockchains, and defense systems.
You’ll get to:
- Collaborate directly with world-renowned cryptographers and engineers from leading universities.
- Work on real-world projects in succinct zero-knowledge proofs, applied to AI, databases, and distributed systems.
- Get hands-on experience with DeepProve, Lagrange’s zkML framework powering verifiable AI inference.
- See your work move from theory to deployment—intern contributions have been integrated into core libraries and live demos.
- Innovate at the intersections of AI, cryptography, distributed systems, and hardware acceleration.
- Gain access to GPUs, private development environments, and Lagrange’s internal research knowledge base.
- Contribute to technologies advancing national defense, cryptography, and verifiable AI infrastructure used across industries.
Guided by Visionary Research
The program is directed by Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou, Chief Scientist at Lagrange and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. As Co-Director of the Yale Applied Cryptography Laboratory, Papamanthou’s research spans verifiable computation, privacy-preserving systems, and blockchain security—earning support from the NSF, JP Morgan, and Protocol Labs.
With over 15,000 citations and pioneering contributions that have shaped modern cryptography, Papamanthou brings a visionary yet hands-on approach to mentoring interns. His goal is simple: to equip the next generation of researchers with both the theoretical foundation and practical tools to build the infrastructure of verifiable AI and secure computation.
Build the Next Generation of Verifiable Systems
Lagrange’s internship program continues to expand as part of our mission to accelerate progress in verifiable AI, secure computation, and applied cryptography. Interns have the opportunity to work on foundational problems, publish papers, and build technologies that shape the future of trust in computation.
Applications are open year-round for driven researchers ready to turn theory into deployed infrastructure.
