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Lead Protocol Engineer

Rated Labs

Rated Labs

London, UK
Posted 6+ months ago

About Rated

Rated offers node and node operator ratings, robust data pipelines and the most comprehensive infrastructure dataset, for Ethereum. In a few short months since founding, we have built a product that users love, and a product that offers a real service to the ecosystem.
Our mission is to promote transparency, good standards and improve the foundation of Web3. Put simply, we cannot imagine a world where anywhere near 1% of the worlds transactions run on a blockchain, without transparency at the base layer.
We are here to enable this future.

💼 The Role

We are looking for a Protocol Architect to join Rated Labs.
You will be spearheading the effort to design and build a protocol will bring our next big product release, onchain. You will be part of a talent-dense, multidisciplinary team, with strong product sensibility and user-mindedness, backed by some of the premier investors in the industry, on a mission to keep the world’s machines accountable and aligned.

🛠️ The Skills

  • You are deeply technical, and are adept at explaining advanced concepts in cryptography in simple terms. Some examples might be:
    • Multiples types of proofs (STARK, SNARK, Fraud proofs etc)
    • State roots
    • KZG commitments & equivalent schemes
  • Familiarity with both EVM and non-EVM blockchain environments, understanding the unique challenges and opportunities each presents in protocol design.
  • Expertise in data availability solutions, their trust-assumption vs cost tradeoffs, as well as implications in scalability and security.
  • Hands-on experience in developing and deploying production blockchain systems.
  • Demonstrable critical analysis and thinking skills.
  • You are able to put your ideas together into prototypes.
  • You thrive working in multidisciplinary teams.
  • Bonus points for proficiency in Ethereum Layer 2 and Layer 3 solutions.
👲 The Person
  • 2+ years in crypto as a Protocol Researcher, Engineer, or Designer with a strong and demonstrable interest in cryptography.
  • You have a good understanding of the overall industry state of the art in terms of architecture components and stacks.
  • You might be a Research inclined Engineer, or conversely an Engineering inclined Researcher. You might be very strong academically, but also have a strong practical sense about you.
  • You are ambitious, intellectually curious, maniacal about details but at the same time value the elegance in simplicity.
  • Is ideally based anywhere between CET-1 and CET+1

👥 The Team

  • We’re a highly technical 12 person team (and growing!), working in a hybrid/remote set-up, with a home base in London, UK.

🎁 The Offer

  • Competitive salary & equity package
  • Flexible PTO
  • New MacBook
  • Budget for conferences and learning
  • Hybrid/remote work set-up with a homebase in London
  • We are also offering visa sponsorship for candidates who wish to relocate to the UK.