Zero Knowledge Research Engineer

This role will be part of a new team that will make a provable and private WASM engine that runs everywhere. As a research engineer, you will be responsible for researching, designing, analyzing and implementing circuits that allow for proving private computation of execution in WASM. This includes having a deep understanding of relevant ZK proof systems and tooling (zk-SNARK, Circom, Plonk/Halo 2, zk-STARK, etc), as well as different architectures (zk-EVM Community Effort, Polygon Hermez and similar) and their trade-offs. You will collaborate with the Vac Research team, and work with requirements from our new Logos program. As one of the first hires of a greenfield project, you are expected to take on significant responsibility,  while collaborating with other research engineers, including compiler engineers and senior Rust engineers.

Key responsibilities

  • Research, analyze and design proof systems and architectures for private computation
  • Be familiar and adapt to research needs zero-knowledge circuits written in Rust Design and implement zero-knowledge circuits in Rust
  • Write specifications and communicate research findings through write-ups
  • Break down complex problems, and know what can and what can’t be dealt with later
  • 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 (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo2, zk-STARK), elliptic curve cryptography, and circuit design
  • 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 if

  • Experience in provable and/or private computation (zkEVM, other ZK VM)
  • Rust Zero Knowledge tooling
  • Experience with WebAssemblyWASM

[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:

  • Interview with our POps team
  • Interview with team member from the Vac team
  • Pair programming task with the Vac team
  • Interview with Vac team lead
  • Interview with Vac Program lead

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

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Compiler Engineer (Rust/Zero-Knowledge)

About Status

Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. 
With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.
As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. 
As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper).
As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception.  Our team is currently 150+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. 
We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

Who are we?

Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralized web.
We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries and publications. Custodians of protocols that reflect a set of principles – liberty, privacy, etc.
You can see a sample of some of our work here: Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging, Privacy-preserving p2p economic spam protection in Waku v2, Waku v2 RFC. Our attitude towards ZK: Vac <3 ZK.
The role?
This role will be part of a new team that will make a provable and private WASM engine that runs everywhere. As a compiler engineer, you will be responsible for researching, designing, analyzing and implementing zero-knowledge circuits that allow for proving private computation of execution in WASM. This includes having a deep understanding of relevant ZK proof systems and tooling (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo 2, zk-STARK, etc), as well as different architectures (zk-EVM Community Effort, Polygon Hermez and similar) and their trade-offs. You will collaborate with the Vac Research team, and work with requirements from our new Logos program. As one of the first hires of a greenfield project, you are expected to take on significant responsibility, while collaborating with other research engineers, including protocol engineers and senior Rust engineers.
Key responsibilities 

Analyze and implement proof systems and architectures for private computation
Design and implement zero knowledge circuits in Rust
Perform security analysis, measure performance of and debug circuits
Write specifications and communicate research findings through write-ups
Break down complex problems, and know what can and what can’t be dealt with later

You ideally will have 

Experience with compilers, VMs, domain-specific languages
Familiarity with Zero-Knowledge Proofs (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo2, zk-STARK), elliptic curve cryptography, and circuit design
Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers.
Experience with Open Source software
Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology
A strong alignment to our principles:

Bonus points if 

Experience with hardware instruction set architectures
Experience in provable and/or private computation (zkEVM, other ZK VM)
Rust Zero Knowledge tooling
Experience with WebAssembly

[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].
Compensation
We pay a competitive salary based on experience, plus a grant of Status Network Tokens vesting over a three-year period. More info on SNT here here: 
Hiring process
The hiring process for this role will be:

Interview with Angel from our Talent team
Interview with team member from the Vac team
Pair programming task with the Vac team
Interview with Oskar, the Program lead
Interview with Jacek, Research Lead

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.
 

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Cryptography Engineer with Zero Knowledge

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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Senior Mobile Product Designer

Senior Mobile Product DesignerRemote

About Brave

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. And we’re just getting started. Already, 50 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.

The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!

SummaryAs a Senior Mobile Product Designer at Brave, you will be responsible for designing the behavior (interaction design) and visual UI of a range of Brave’s mobile products, and refining the usability and design of existing mobile features. You will participate in gathering deep insight into user behaviors and user needs through user research, as well as identifying and communicating opportunities for innovation and differentiation.

Responsibilities

  • Define, test, and iterate on the interaction design of new and existing mobile features
  • Create user-flows, detailed product wireframes, prototypes & beautiful visual UI that adheres to our design system
  • Ensure all aspects of our mobile products are easy to use and delightful
  • Participate in user research to guide product design decisions (contextual inquiry, usability testing, competitive analysis, etc.)
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, and developers

QualificationsWe are looking for someone who is both strategic and execution-based and whose passion is to create a mobile experience that people love to use.

  • Has at least 3 years of product-based UX design experience focused primarily on mobile app design
  • Has a track record of designing successful and delightful mobile applications
  • Has a deep understanding of mobile design patterns and best practices for both iOS and Android
  • Has a portfolio of mobile app design work demonstrating skill in user research, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping/testing, visual design and design systems

*Portfolio must be included in the application to be considered.

Nice to haves

  • Icon design and animation experience
  • Passion for human privacy 
  • Experience with crypto and Web3 products

Working at Brave

  • Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
  • Competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
  • Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
  • Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a flat-feeling org structure
  • Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web
  • Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?

United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $100,000 – $180,000 USD, depending on experience.

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Risk Monitoring Analyst (PH)

Join the leading Crypto Brand in the Philippines!Who we areWe are one of the earliest and largest crypto platforms in Southeast Asia offering exchange and wallet services to our users. Our product lineup also includes electronic payment service and e-wallet. Through our wallet, users can send money to anyone, pay for bills, shop online at over 100,000 merchants, receive money transfers from 200+ countries even without a bank account, and of course view and purchase cryptocurrencies.

What you'll do

    • Perform risk assessment by analyzing current business and identifying potential risks
    • Liaise with business and product in conducting business risk mitigation process and solutions
    • Setup business risk monitoring metrics and alerts to detect risk and react to find the root cause
    • Automate the process and improve the efficiency continuously
    • Record and report any serious accidents when needed

What we expect from you

    • Bachelor’s degree or above in Risk Management, Business, Finance, Statistics, or Engineering, or in other quantitative fields.
    • Minimum of 3 years experience in a risk analyst position
    • Demonstrates the ability to speak in front of groups, with the ability to lead meetings and take command of discussions
    • Has the ability to evaluate situations and make clear, well thought out decisions, taking clear and concise actions
    • Possesses strong analytical skills in SQL/Python or other language and Business Intelligence tools like Tableau, Metabase, etc.

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Senior Unity Integrations Engineer

is a leading blockchain research and development firm specializing in infrastructure solutions for the decentralized web. Alongside its contributions to significant ecosystems such as Ethereum, Polkadot, Filecoin, and more, ChainSafe creates solutions for developers across the web3 space utilizing our expertise in ,  and  As part of the mission to build innovative products for users and better tooling for developers, ChainSafe embodies an open-source and community-oriented ethos.

At ChainSafe, you’ll be part of a global remote team that believes in the community’s vital importance and contributes to advancing humanity with open-source and decentralized technology. To learn more about ChainSafe, look at or check out our work on .

Who we need

As a Senior Unity Integrations Engineer, you will be responsible for developing integrations on top of the existing Unity Gaming SDK and working with clients to help them expand their solutions using the SDK. Simply said, we need someone who thrives in taking ideas and working their way towards the solution and its execution, with the rest of the stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead brainstorming possible solutions to challenging problems
  • Innovate on current and future gaming-related products
  • Be responsible for the technical decisions and their justification
  • Work in a small team with external parties to build on top of ChainSafe’s Gaming SDK

Requirements

  • 4+ years working as a software engineer
  • Excellent technical communication skills and ability to distill complexity
  • Experience in Unity development, building Unity-compatible code libraries and plugins
  • Experience with version control, continuous integration, and test-driven development
  • Good understanding of software design patterns and their implementations in C#
  • Ability to build clean architecture designs
  • Understanding of .NET Runtime

Bonus points

  • Technical understanding of distributed systems and/or blockchain technology
  • Experience working with clients and consulting processes
  • Experience leading a team
  • Passion for web3 and participation in gaming or web3 communities

Hiring Steps

  • Selected candidates will be invited to a 15-20 minute screening call with one of our tech recruiters
  • Next, candidates will be invited to a 60-minute alignment interview with one of our team members
  • Lastly, candidates will be invited to a 60-minute interview with the program lead

Why Join ChainSafe

Founded by developers for developers, ChainSafe is a remote-first company with an international team. We continue to provide opportunities for personal and professional growth, value autonomy and responsibility, have a results-driven environment, and offer flexible work hours.

We care deeply about  and look for these attributes in every new team member. In addition, we recognize the benefits of cultivating a diverse team and aspire to embed respect for all people into our culture. We encourage women, the LGBTQIA+ community, people of colour, and members of any other group underrepresented in the space to apply.

How to Apply

Please fill out the Greenhouse application form below and ensure that you attach your resume and link your Github/Gitlab profile or any software project you have contributed to.

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Product Marketing Manager – Platform

As stewards of the Polkadot and Substrate ecosystem, Parity is laying the foundation for a better web which respects the freedom and data of individuals and empowers developers to create better services through decentralised technology. The internet is too important to billions of people for it to be at the mercy of a few powerful companies. 

Like Polkadot, Parity was built on a foundation of being decentralised and open, which trickles down to how we work. We’re a distributed organisation and have been from the beginning. Being distributed isn’t just a way of doing business—it’s a mentality that is at the core of our culture. We have a flat structure that pushes power to the edges and empowers our people to take ownership of their role, authority coupled with responsibilities.

About the team:

Within Parity’s Marketing Communications department the Product Marketing team is growing rapidly.  We bring the value of the developer experience, DOT token, protocol and governance, and the ever-expanding ecosystem of parachain teams and dApps to the market. This includes owning messaging and positioning, delivering high-value marketing launches, and ensuring our Ecosystem Development teams are fully enabled to drive Polkadot awareness, demand, and adoption of our products and technologies.

About the position:

  • Define the strategic positioning for the Polkadot platform as a product, meaning the protocol, related features, operations, and services, by working closely with the Product and Engineering teams and accounting for customer needs, market dynamics, and industry shifts
  • Own and deliver the overarching messaging and content for the Polkadot platform in alignment with the strategic objectives of Polkadot
  • Deliver content to promote the platform through a multitude of channels and audiences, particularly to decision makers and developers who wish to build in Web3, as well as to end-users who want to explore the ecosystem via dapps, stake, or participate in governance
  • Support the Ecosystem Development department with relevant sales collateral, briefings, or events

About you:

  • You have experience and a successful track record of executing on messaging, enablement, and awareness for technology and ecosystems solutions
  • You are a blockchain and crypto enthusiast with a passion for storytelling
  • You understand the nuances of Web3 platforms, such as governance, consensus, security, staking
  • You are able to roll up your sleeves working with various marketing functions to develop long-form, source content such as presentations, video scripts, and social media content
  • You show a high degree of accountability and collaboration skills to develop and coordinate cross-functional marketing campaigns, projects, and programs
  • You are a problem solver using a combination of analytical insights as well as intuition
  • You are data driven in order to measure, analyse, and iterate and develop new content based on key metrics and goals to ensure optimal performance
  • You will be reporting to the Product Marketing Platform Lead

About working for us:

For everyone who joins us:

  • Competitive remuneration packages, including tokens (where legally possible), based on iterative market research
  • Parity is a remote first company. You may work +/-5 hours from Central European time zone, US based candidates must be located in the Eastern Time Zone
  • You may also co-work in our hubs in Berlin, London, or Lisbon
  • Collaborative, fast-paced, and self-initiating culture, designed to mimic an open source workflow
  • Energising and collaborative team and company retreats all over the world
  • Opportunity to learn more about Web3 while on the job, with access to some of the brightest minds in this space; we have plenty of educational initiatives such as internal sessions, all-hands, AMAs, hackathons, etc.
  • Teammates who are genuinely excited about their job, impact, and Parity’s mission
  • Opportunity to relocate to Germany or Portugal

For those joining us as employees in Germany, Portugal, or the U.K.:

  • 28 paid vacation days per year
  • Work laptop (macOS or Linux-based) and equipment to enable you to work successfully
  • £2,500 yearly learning and development budget for conferences or courses of your choice

Not a perfect match to our requirements? We’re still excited to receive your application and hear how you think you can help us achieve our mission.

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Technical Support Engineer (Linux) – Lisbon

Parity Technologies builds core infrastructure for blockchains and Web 3.0 technologies. This means dealing with P2P networking, consensus algorithms, cryptography, databases, and decentralised applications. We strive to write the fastest, lightest, and safest core technology in Blockchain and write lots of open-source code.

We have built and launched live networks like Kusama and Polkadot atop the Substrate blockchain framework at Parity Technologies. We want to bring to these networks first-class end-to-end user experiences which tell a story of how easy it is to use these next-generation blockchains. 

The Role

As a Technical Support Engineer you are the go-to for any and all issues related to the hardware that enables our employees to be productive while they are in the office or on the go. You are responsible for fixing the myriad of problems brought to to you with an unparalleled instinct for diagnosing the issue and a passion for helping others. 

Not content to just consider an issue resolved by a quick fix, you want to understand our users regular workflows in order to identify the best solution for any problem that pops up, and you are excited to learn new skills that broaden the scope of problems you can help fix. While you have the knowledge and expertise to work with machines, you enjoy interacting with people and helping someone new. 

Core Responsibilities

  • Support for all internal technical operations.
  • Solve enterprise scale problems by creatively engineering automated solutions.
  • Install, configure, and maintain Linux and Mac workstations.
  • Troubleshoot and provide solutions for networking and connectivity issues.

What We Value

  • Have enough knowledge of Linux and Mac operating systems to be comfortable and sure when helping your colleagues.
  • Manage the command line interface with ease – both in Linux and MAC environments
  • Passion and good knowledge of common Open Source Software products
  • Have great knowledge and interest in the fast-changing consumer and professional IT device market.

About the position 

This is a highly varied ‘all things support’ type position, the successful individual will be supporting all levels of employee technical support issues.  The ability to build productive relationships with colleagues at remote locations around the world will make you successful in this role as will patience and a sense of humour. The End User Technical Support is part of the Security Team at Parity Technologies, so you will be working hands-on with end user security issues and exposed to security topics within an organisation which is building the infrastructure to build web3.

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Binance Accelerator Programme – Data analyst intern

Binance is the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, serving a greater mission to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption and increase the freedom of money.Are you looking to be a part of the most influential company in the blockchain industry and contribute to the crypto-currency revolution that is changing the world?

Responsibilities:

    • Conduct data collection and analysis using SQL and Python.
    • Automate data collection and aggregation processes to build reporting dashboards.
    • Collaborate with data engineers, product managers, and operation teams to provide statistics or business data that can help to drive business insights.
    • Use quantitative analysis and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand what drives our business, providing insights to help product managers, designers, and engineers to understand what drives growth and how to improve product.
    • Leverage insights from data by providing both ad-hoc insight analyses as well as scalable, self-service reports and dashboards.
    • Identify new opportunities and advocate your ideas

Requirements:

    • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or higher, preferably major in Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
    • Ability to manage a large amount of data meticulously.
    • Interested in data analysis and data collection.
    • Highly motivated, structured and methodical with high degree of initiative.
    • Strong problem solving, quantitative and analytical abilities.
    • Good communication skills in English, both written and oral

Working at Binance• Do something meaningful; Be a part of the future of finance technology and the no.1 company in the industry• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems• International work environment and flat organisation• Great career development opportunities in a growing company• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career• Competitive salary• Flexible working hours, Casual work attireBy submitting a job application, you confirm that you have read and agree to our .

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Marketing Intern (Partnership Project)

Binance is the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, serving a greater mission to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption and increase the freedom of money.Are you looking to be a part of the most influential company in the blockchain industry and contribute to the crypto-currency revolution that is changing the world?

Responsibility

    • Identify and manage Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and media across global markets, and in charge of end-to-end collaboration.
    • Engage and build global communities through one-on-one as well as one-to-many conversations.
    • Design and execute social and community led activities such as livestream, AMA, community engagement and content creation for global markets.
    • Analyze social media landscape to supply actionable insight (in real-time) to both the social and wider marketing team with hot topics, breaking news, sentiment/market observations.
    • Explore new channels and collaboration ideas for new user acquisition.
    • Track, monitor and understand marketing performance through insights and analytics.

Requirements

    • Currently pursuing a Bachelor or Master Degree.
    • Fluent in spoken and written English is a MUST.
    • Minimum 4 days per week commitment, for at least 3 months internship term.
    • Passion about online marketing and a solid understanding of performance marketing, conversion and online user acquisition.
    • Well-versed with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, and Telegram.
    • Willing to get his/her hands ‘dirty’, to get into the details to understand local nuances, user behaviors, crypto trends, and most importantly, willing to embark on a learning journey.
    • Passion for blockchain industry and extra-curricular experience to showcase entrepreneurial spirit is preferred.
    • Adaptable, open-minded, and comfortable to work with ambiguity and a fast-paced remote working environment.

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