The Role
As a Research Engineer, you’ll be focused on performing in-depth technical overviews regarding investments and new products
The role will focus on 3 pillars:
- Technical Analysis & Investment Research: Conduct rigorous technical analysis and assessments of potential investment opportunities within the web3 ecosystem, providing essential data and insight to inform investment decisions
- Product Research & Development: Collaborate with the product development and engineering teams within our portfolio companies to assist in the design and implementation of Alchemy products within their business
- Industry Trends & Insights: Produce highly technical, quantitative content about our investments, upcoming trends and new products, and more generalized macro market analysis for the industry
Responsibilities:
- Technical and Whitepaper Analysis: Conduct in-depth technical assessments of potential investment opportunities and current portfolio companies to assist in investment due diligence
- Research Content: Produce in-depth quantitative market research and content that will live and be redistributed through our various content channels
- Portfolio Engineering: Assist our portfolio companies in integrating Alchemy products throughout their tech stack, from first principle systems designs perspectives
- Open Source Contribution: Contribute to leading open source GitHub repositories, focusing on creating public goods for the greater web3 community
- Product Overviews: Provide the rest of the team with technical overviews of emerging products and protocols, down to the cryptography or mathematics behind the product
- New Product Development: Help prototype and implement new products for Alchemy based off the synthesis of technical due diligence and research implementation
What We’re Looking For:
- 2-4 years as a researcher or engineer within the web3 space
- Experience in writing and deploying highly complicated Solidity contracts
- Ability to understand highly technical concepts and distill them down to easily understandable content for the rest of the team and our greater audience
- Experience in protocol or systems designs for high velocity web3 startups or protocols
- Has been following the space closely to understand the relevant narratives and trends that are going to create 80% of the impact within the ecosystem
- Has lived the founder’s life or has a strong understanding of what that’s like
- Has to be extremely confident paired with a strong technical background that can actively contribute to industry-advancing conversations
- Has worked at a startup before or has a passion for helping startups succeed and thrive
- Major or minor in computer science or mathematics
- Experience working in a theoretical computer science lab or role
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