What you'll be doing:

📍Define cryptography principles and best practices within the Aptos blockchain and ecosystem. 📍Establish cryptographic standards by writing Aptos Improvement Protocols (AIPs). 📍Evaluate cryptographic libraries for their safety and performance. 📍Design, implement, maintain and audit cryptographic schemes, such as signature schemes, authenticated data structures, secret sharing, distributed pseudo-random functions, and zero-knowledge proofs 📍Publish research work to top conferences 📍Contribute across the Rust Blockchain code stack, the Move framework, and many of the SDKs (e.g., Typescript, Python, Rust) 📍Work closely with engineering and partner teams.

What we’re looking for:

📍Prior experience in cryptography or security 📍Experience programming in Rust, TypeScript (JavaScript), or Python 📍Familiarity with smart contracts 📍Ability to write technical documentation and specifications 📍Fluent in English