2027 Digital Infrastructure Intern - NYC
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Join Galaxy Digital's NYC Summer Internship Program as a 2027 Digital Infrastructure Intern. You will spend nine weeks on-site at our New York HQ working on real products and problems alongside our Digital Infrastructure team. Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, operating the Helios campus in Texas with a multi-gigawatt pipeline of over 5.7 GW of potential capacity, and delivering on-chain infrastructure for institutions including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization.
What you'll do
- Become a technical and strategic expert on blockchain infrastructure and on-chain protocols, including Staking, DeFi, and Tokenization
- Work across Galaxy's infrastructure business, partnering with the Staking, DeFi, Tokenization, Edge, and GK8 teams
- Own a Digital Infrastructure scoped project from start to finish and present results to the team at the end of the summer
- Support the development of a blockchain infrastructure-focused operating business with a full suite of products, focusing on creating new products and processes
- Use data and AI-assisted tooling to speed up research, analysis, and prototyping
- Conduct and summarize core research findings and propose new product suites
What you bring
- Interest in and knowledge of the cryptocurrency ecosystem
- Critical thinking skills with a solutions-oriented mindset
- Strong emotional intelligence and comfort communicating with others
- Proactive and entrepreneurial spirit
- Self-directed, curious, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative workflow
- Comfort working across multiple workstreams and teams in a whitespace environment
- Strong organizational skills
- Demonstrated interest in building on-chain personal projects in areas such as DeFi, Prop AMMs, institutional custody, tokenization, or staking, validators, and node infrastructure
- Undergraduate or master's student graduating between December 2027 and June 2028 (master's students must have fewer than two years of relevant, full-time work experience)
Nice to have
- Pursuing a degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or engineering
- Strong understanding of AI and agentic workflows
- Smart contract proficiency in Solidity, Rust, or similar languages
- Data analysis skills in Python or SQL
What we offer
- $55 per hour
- Nine-week on-site internship in New York, June 7 - August 6, 2027
- Professional development programming, social events, and networking opportunities with senior leaders
- Free daily snacks and weekly lunches
- Access to Employee Resource Groups
About Galaxy
Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering on-chain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets and developing data center infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Galaxy has 41 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 14 in Engineering, 10 in Legal & Compliance and 5 in Security. 7% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and India. 8 were posted in the last 7 days. The median advertised base salary is $189k, from 14 listings that publish pay.
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