About the company
Unit 410 is an experienced team of security, infrastructure, and cryptocurrency engineers. We empower the largest stakeholders to use their crypto in secure and novel ways. To do so, we build institutional-grade systems and solutions for secure network participation. Before Unit 410, we’ve worked at companies like Coinbase, Google, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We’ve long believed in the potential of cryptocurrency and are excited to continue pushing forward the state of the art through industry-leading key generation, encryption, and network participation. Done right, bleeding-edge participation offers scaling, efficiency, and governance improvements over existing layer 1 protocols. But this comes with novel security challenges. Protecting online key material and managing the risk of slashing requires new architectural patterns, hardening, and methods for secure cryptographic signatures. We’re excited to continue to mature solutions across these areas and more. We also believe that network participation is not a zero-sum game and there’s no shortage of work towards scaling crypto, so we’ll continue to liberally open sourcing the tools we’ve built. To date we’ve shared many tools such as a Polkadot Transaction Parser, Polkadot Multisig WebApp, GCP SSH Certificate Authority, MPC for Tendermint Validators, Vault Shamir (in Go), Horcrux (CLI for Shamir), and many more.
Job Summary
Job Responsibilities
📍Support Institutions: Identify new opportunities to support institutions participating in new networks .
📍Proactively identify risks and new ways to provide a great experience.
📍Ship Projects: Work with Unit 410 engineers to prioritize and deliver technology that supports participating with new digital assets.
📍Research Protocols: Research new opportunities for existing protocols we support.
📍Participate in Communities: Collaborate with the communities developing new networks to understand and push for long term success.
📍This includes proposals, blog posts, open sourcing our software, and supporting new projects.
Nice To Have
📍Previously worked closely with layer 1 and layer 2 protocols (building, participating, researching). 📍Has published research, analyses, articles, or blogs on blockchain projects or protocols. 📍Experience working with, and deriving insights from, on-chain data.