Protocol Researcher

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Nethermind Full time

**What are we all about?**:
We are a team of builders and researchers on a mission to empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build on decentralized systems.

Our expertise covers several domains: Ethereum and Starknet protocol engineering, layer-2, cryptography research, protocol research, decentralized finance (DeFi), security auditing, formal verification, real-time monitoring, smart contract development, and dapps and enterprise engineering.

Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in the blockchain space, we frequently collaborate with, such as Ethereum Foundation, Starknet Foundation, Gnosis Chain, Flashbots, Forta Protocol, Lido, EigenLayer, Open Zeppelin, RISCZero, Aleph Zero, and many more.

Today, there are nearly 200 of us working remotely from over 45+ countries.

**Are you the one?**

**Responsibilities**:
As a **_protocol researcher_**, you will participate in research on, for example:

- L2 designs
- Prover coordination and sequencer design, decentralization, incentivization.
- Levels of finality.
- L2 governance, PoS vs PoG.
- Auctioning the right to build a block.
- Various flavors of staking: vanilla staking, restaking, liquid staking, and systemic risks they come with.
- Consensus algorithms
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of the known consensus protocols? When a given protocol work well, and when does it not?
- How do we incentivize participants in the consensus algorithms?
- How finality in consensus algorithms is achieved?

**Skills**:

- A strong understanding of distributed protocol design. Particularly, a demonstrable ability to identify the trade-offs faced by protocols when deployed on blockchains.
- Ability to identify mechanism design problems and propose solutions.
- Familiarity with Ethereum: how it works and why?
- Familiarity with various designs of L2s.
- Ability to express thoughts precisely.

**Nice to have**:

- Knowledge about cryptography, or
- Knowledge about game theory.
- Published work in relevant fields, blog posts and forum posts also count.

**Perks and benefits**:

- Fully remote
- Flexible working hours
- Plus equity

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