Smart Contract Engineer

Overview

Smart Contract Engineer

We are seeking a Smart Contract Engineer to design and implement next-generation protocol primitives that enable machine-verifiable commitments, state attestations, and autonomous coordination across decentralized environments.

This role sits at the intersection of protocol research and systems engineering, contributing to the foundations of next-generation physical intelligence systems — where digital protocols coordinate and verify actions across real-world environments

Responsibilities

• Design cryptoeconomic systems enabling verifiable commitments and programmable state transitions

• Research identity, attestation, and reputation primitives within decentralized environments

• Develop mechanisms for secure cross-network coordination and trust minimization

• Formalize security assumptions and adversarial models for protocol components

• Prototype and benchmark new consensus or validation schemes

• Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize research outputs

• Author technical specifications and research documentation

• Contribute to audits and formal security reviews

• Engage with the broader research community where appropriate

• Engage with the broader research community, including opportunities to contribute to publications, open-source research, and intellectual property

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in distributed systems, cryptography, or applied mathematics

• Experience designing blockchain or decentralized protocol mechanisms

• Deep understanding of consensus systems and cryptoeconomic incentives

• Familiarity with digital identity, attestation systems, or verifiable data models

• Proficiency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages

• Ability to move from theoretical design to implementation

Nice To Have

• Experience with zero-knowledge systems or verifiable computation

• Knowledge of decentralized identity (DID) or credential frameworks

• Background in mechanism design or formal protocol modelling

• Experience contributing to L1/L2 or interoperability protocols

• Published research or open-source protocol contributions