Cryptography Engineer with Zero Knowledge

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About Codex

We’re a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology
We’re building the next generation storage engine that attempts to “untie the knot” of incentivized storage
Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward
We’re looking for an experienced p2p networking engineer with hands-on experience designing and implementing state of the art networking protocols and distributed systems

Key responsibilities

  • Research,design and implement proof systems for remote auditing schemes
  • Implement zk friendly hashing functions
  • Familiarity with state of the art proving backends such as arkworks, bellman, etc…
  • Write specifications and design documentation
  • Document and communicate research findings to the wider community
  • Perform security analysis, measure performance of and debug circuits

You ideally will have

  • Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
  • Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
  • Experience with Open Source software
  • Deep understanding of Zero-Knowledge proof systems and corresponding tooling 
  • Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers
  • Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology
  • A strong alignment to our principles:

Bonus points

  • Experience and interest in decentralized storage and p2p technologies
  • Experience designing and implementing zk-friendly hashing functions
  • Experience with WebAssembly tooling

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role
Just explain to us why in your cover letter]

Hiring Process 

The hiring process for this role will be:

  1. Interview with People Ops team
  2. Interview with Codex team member
  3. Pair programming task w/ Codex team member
  4. Interview with Codex team member
  5. Interview with Codex Program Lead

Compensation

The expected compensation range for this role is $120,000 – $150,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process)
We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto

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