Cryptographic Engineer at Horizen Labs


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633 days ago
✅ 28 applications

About the Job

Who We Are:
Our mission is to provide certainty to the world’s information. Founded in 2019, Horizen Labs is a crypto-first developer that builds blockchain products and tools at the heart of the decentralization revolution. We are world leaders in zero knowledge cryptography and key web 3.0 tools that enable programmable blockchains that are secure, scalable and privacy preserving.

Our company is creating a culture of empowered individuals, who aren’t afraid to bring their ideas to life. We are looking for creative individuals to join our team of the best and brightest minds in the blockchain space. You will experience the exhilaration of joining a fast growing and innovation focused company with support from some of the industry’s top thought leaders, including Digital Currency Group, Kenetic Capital, Sound Ventures, and Liberty City Ventures.

We believe diversity drives the innovation and engagement necessary to build a truly remarkable product. We operate on a hybrid model with a distributed global workforce who works in partnership with our satellite offices in New York City, NY, Milan, Italy, and the latest opening now in Odessa, Ukraine. This allows us the flexibility to go to where the talent is. Are you ready to help us change the future with the next cutting edge blockchain technology? Join us!

The Role:
We are looking for an engineer who will contribute in building the cryptographic infrastructure of our Web 3.0-enabled blockchain ecosystem.

You will be involved in the design and implementation of our zero-knowledge Layer 2 scaling solution based on STARK-proven virtual machines.

Our international team works in a stimulating and innovative environment, where people’s technical expertise and experience contribute to the development of cutting-edge blockchain technology.

Requirements:
Experience in implementing zero-knowledge proving systems or related cryptographic primitives;
Comfortable in implementing low-level operations such as finite field arithmetics, hash functions, etc.;
Enthusiastic about algorithmic improvements and code optimization.
Furthermore, any experience with

Plonk, STARKs, AIR circuits,
EVM, zk-VMs,
C/C++/Rust programming language
though not mandatory, it is welcomed.

We offer:
Competitive salary, yearly bonus, and stock options
Flexible working hours, fully remote if preferred
The opportunity to work with talented minds on innovative, high-quality open source solutions.
If you want to get more knowledge about our technology, read our Whitepapers at the website: https://www.horizen.io/research/

Horizen Labs is an equal opportunity employer
Horizen Labs is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.


Skills

Experience in implementing zero-knowledge proving systems or related cryptographic primitives.

Compensation

upon candidate's experience and expectations + Equity


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