Ph.D. Student/Research Assistant in Cryptography and Privacy Engineering

Ph.D. Student/Research Assistant in Cryptography and Privacy Engineering TU Darmstadt, Department of Computer Science, ENCRYPTO; Germany The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) @CS Department @Technical University of Darmstadt offers a fully funded position for a Doctoral Researcher (Research Assistant/Ph.D. Student) in Cryptography & Privacy Engineering, available immediately and for initially 3 years with the possibility of extension.Our mission is to demonstrate that privacy can be efficiently protected in real-world applications via cryptographic protocols.TU Darmstadt is a top research university for IT security, cryptography and computer science in Europe. The position is based in the City of Science Darmstadt, which is very international, livable and well-connected in the Rhine-Main area around Frankfurt.Job descriptionYou work in the ERC Consolidator Grant project Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy (PRIVTOOLS), where we build composable protocols, optimizations and tools to protect data & functions in applications. We use Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Private Function Evaluation (PFE), and Private Set Operations (PSO) such as Private Set Intersection (PSI) & Private Set Union (PSU). You will design, optimize, implement and benchmark efficient cryptographic protocols and tools for their automatic generation, and publish & present your research results at top conferences and journals. You will also be involved in our teaching activities, e.g., the integrated course Cryptographic Protocols and the basic course Digital Technology, and supervise thesis students and mentor student assistants.Your profileCompleted Master's degree at a university with excellent grades in IT security, computer science, or a similar field (degree must be completed by starting date of employment).Extensive knowledge in applied cryptography/IT security and very good software development skills.Additional knowledge in cryptographic protocols such as MPC, PFE, PSO, compiler construction, and/or hardware synthesis is a plus.The working language at ENCRYPTO is English, so you must discuss/write/present scientific results in English. For the area of teaching, German is beneficial but not required.