About the company
Offchain Labs is a New York-based company building Arbitrum, a suite of scaling solutions for Ethereum. Arbitrum One and Nova are powered by Nitro, our proprietary technology stack. Nitroās next-generation rollup architecture provides 7x more throughput than Ethereum and lower fees without sacrificing any security. Prysm is an official Ethereum proof-of-stake client written in Go. Both individuals and institutions can use Prysm to participate in Ethereum's decentralized economy by running a node and earn rewards by running a validator to help secure the Ethereum blockchain. Upcoming Stylus will enable users to deploy programs written in popular programming languages like Rust, C, C++, and more, side-by-side with existing Solidity dApps on the same Arbitrum blockchain.
Job Summary
What you'll do:
šAttack fundamental challenges to building scalable, secure, reliable, user-friendly blockchain systems šReason through the emerging trends in the crypto and blockchain space and identify (non)obvious opportunities for Offchain Labs šProactively perform feasibility studies and analysis for new protocols, architectures, and feature enhancements šDesign and write technical specifications and academic papers šDesign and build proofs of concept šCollaborate with research colleagues, share knowledge and expertise, and solve problems together šWork with teams across the broader organization, including engineering, product, and business development, to think beyond current technical limitations in delivering the best experience for developers and users
Who you are:
šDoctorate degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline, or Masterās degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience š1ā2 years of relevant research and development experience in academic and/or industry settings šDeep expertise in one or more distributed systems, security, or cryptographic research areas (e.g., distributed protocols, design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, formal methods, secure multi-party computation, system security, and/or their application to data protection and privacy, authentication, payments, and cryptocurrencies) šFamiliarity with or willingness to learn blockchain technologies
The future of finance is here ā whether youāre interested in blockchain, cryptocurrency, or remote web3 jobs, thereās a perfect role waiting for you.
