Monad Labs is hiring a Remote Senior Applied Cryptographer
\nMonad Labs is a venture-backed startup building the Monad blockchain, a high-performance smart contract platform built to bring world adoption to decentralized apps. Monad delivers 1000x the throughput of Ethereumโ10,000 transactions per secondโwhile maintaining backward-compatibility for Ethereum smart contracts, offering users and developers the best of both worlds.\n\nFounded by Jump Trading alums, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, authoring novel open source code to implement a new, high-performance, high-reliability, high-value system.\n\nAfter recently raising a $19 million seed round backed by Dragonfly Capital, Placeholder Capital, Naval Ravikant, and other leaders in the crypto space, we are hiring a few more exceptional engineers who want to work on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment.\nThe Role\n\nWe are looking for an exceptional Senior Applied Cryptographer who is interested in cryptographic protocols and their application to blockchain. You will play a leading role in designing and implementing critical components of the blockchain, such as signature schemes, threshold encryption, distributed key generation, and zero-knowledge proofs. Your work will significantly contribute to the security and scalability of the platform.\nWho you are\n\n\n* Resourceful and self-motivated\n\n* Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator\n\n* Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment\n\n* Opinionated about software architecture\n\n* Motivated to push the limits of system performance through repeated optimization\n\n* Interested in building high-value fault-tolerant distributed systems\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\n* Advanced degree in applied cryptography\n\n* 5 years of experience in applied cryptography in an academic or industrial setting\n\n* Excellent knowledge of modern cryptography primitives, such as zero-knowledge proofs, signature schemes, threshold encryption, and MPC\n\n* Strong programming skills in languages like python or C++\n\n\n\nBonus:\n\n\n* Research publications\n\n* Contributions to open source projects\n\n* Startup experience\n\n\n\nWhat youโll be doing\n\n\n* Designing and implementing crucial cryptographic components of the blockchain, such as signature schemes, threshold encryption, distributed key generation, and zero-knowledge proofs.\n\n* Conducting literature review and researching opportunities to incorporate the latest advances into the workflow.\n\n\n\nWhy work with us\n\n\n* Youโll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact\n\n* Youโll work with and learn from a small, exceptional team\n\n\n* Youโll receive a competitive salary, along with equity\n\n* Youโll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one\n\n* Youโll be part of a flat, results-driven organization\n\n* Your work will be deeply impactful, enabling much cheaper and more efficient decentralized computation and ultimately paving the way for new dapps that improve many peopleโs lives.\n\n\n\nSalary and benefits\n\nMinimum full-time salary of $200,000. (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)\n\nMonad Labsโ benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off; insurance coverage; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 10 company-observed holidays. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Crypto, Ethereum, Python and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n
$62,500 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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