About the company
Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 225 million, over 1.2 million smart contracts created and 2.56 billion total transactions processed since inception. The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
Job Summary
Your Responsibilities
šSupport design and implementation of the Miden compiler to Miden assembly. šImproving and hardening the compiler frontend and gradually shift to trickier problems in the backend. šProvide feedback and inform design decisions of the Miden Virtual Machine, and features of the Miden Assembly language. šInterface with the teams working on designing and implementing higher-level languages we target.
What You'll Need
šPrior experience working on production compilers or compiler projects, e.g. clang/gcc or LLVM/MLIR etc šPassion for compiler development and developer tooling. šIntellectual curiosity and willingness to learn. You donāt have to know it all, so long as you make up for it in ability to pick up complex topics quickly, are comfortable digging into tricky algorithmic code, and are the type of person to dig in to a problem until you understand it thoroughly. šExperience in Rust.
