15 Research jobs

Notional is a decentralized protocol that enables fixed-rate, fixed-term crypto-asset lending on Ethereum. Notional is backed by leading firms like Pantera Capital, Parafi Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Group, IDEO CoLab, Nascent, and 1Confirmation. We are looking for a DeFi analyst to support the growth of Notional’s ecosystem by identifying protocol integration opportunities and deriving business insights from the analysis of on-chain activity. You will be responsible for analyzing DeFi protocols, determining how these protocols should integrate with Notional, and providing recommendations for where Notional should allocate its resources based on your research and analysis. This will require you to have a passion for DeFi, a deep technical and financial understanding of Notional and the mechanics of DeFi protocols, and a desire to get your hands dirty. This role is perfect for someone with strong technical skills, intellectual curiosity, and a deep...

What is BlockFi? BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. We build bridges between traditional finance and digital markets that enable growth for all participants. We’re a team of builders and strivers, proud to champion financial inclusivity and offer economic opportunities around the globe. We provide the same inclusivity to our team members. BlockFi is a place where diversity is celebrated, individuality is recognized, and every single team member is valued. We are changing the status quo to be the first financial company that people love, and we rely on our people to make it happen! BlockFi is looking for a Cryptographer to join our growing team!  About Your Team At BlockFi, our Security Team works across the entire spectrum of technologies and products that power our business, protecting over ~$10B in...

We are looking for a programmer who will help design and develop projects related to cryptocurrencies. Required: - Higher technical education - Knowledge of blockchain and cryptocurrency market - Proficiencies Node.js, C#, Solidity - Minimum qualifications from 5 years - Languages: Russian, English Job: Participation in the development and support of a platform for the analysis and sale of cryptocurrencies. The platform is being developed for Desktop and Web site. https://www.terminal.global/en/

Seeking program manager  with strong computer science or engineering background  to assist Protocol Labs Research initiatives and support independent research-development labs across multiple disciplines. Research at Protocol Labs We’re not an ordinary Research Lab. We’re working hard to build the core protocols of the decentralized web pursuant to our vision for the future of the Internet. As part of our research team, you’ll be enabling outcomes at the forefront of our mission. Our research team is granted both the freedom to develop knowledge by working on novel applications and a responsibility to contribute those skills toward advancing the flagship projects of Protocol Labs and the research endeavors of leading institutions in the field. Our efforts range from supporting pure basic research to building agile, modular “research-development” labs dedicated to turning cutting-edge research into workable technologies. You’ll feel at home working with us if your...

What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs? Protocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more. As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds. We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

We seek talented researchers and engineers who have a fiery passion to build foundational infrastructure for the fabric of human knowledge; who wish to work on the bleeding edge of cryptographic primitives & high performance computing; and who understand the value of creating resilient, open, and excellent software. CryptoCompute Lab Protocol Labs has created a new research lab focused on cryptography and high performance computing (CryptoCompute Lab). This lab supports engineering teams by solving "problems-to-be" before they impact operational systems and networks (such as IPFS, libp2p, and Filecoin) and also supports them on existing bottlenecks. In 2020 alone, CryptoComputeLab delivered, among many other things:- A production-ready implementation of the Proofs of SpaceTime used by Filecoin.- The fastest implementation: zkSNARK implementation based on Groth16- The above power the live Filecoin network, producing around 4 Million zkSNARKs per day, the largest...

Seeking an experienced cryptographer to help us research and develop state of the art cryptosystems to upgrade the internet. Research at Protocol Labs This isn't an ordinary Research Scientist position.  Your expertise is mostly driven by both a hunger to learn and a need to work toward solving important problems.  Our research scientists are granted both the freedom to develop their knowledge by working on novel applications, and a responsibility to contribute those skills toward advancing the flagship projects of Protocol Labs.  You’ll feel at home working with us if your knowledge and optimism enables you to name a few unusual possible approaches when you’re first presented with a problem that people often consider intractable.   We see cryptography often acting as the last line of defense in a world that’s rife with malicious actors.  We examine a broad spectrum of potential projects, like Filecoin, that rely on providing various cryptographic guarantees to users....

We seek to hire a Cryptoeconomics Research Scientist to further our research and understanding in the field of cryptoeconomics. CryptoEconLab CryptoEconLab at PL aspires to become a research hub for research on economic incentives, coordination games, and novel marketplaces. We aim to develop capacity to design, validate, deploy, and govern large-scale economic systems. CryptoEconLab strives to empower projects in the ecosystem through novel incentives and advance humanity’s understanding of multiagent systems and algorithmic steering of economic networks. As a Cryptoeconomic Research Scientist you will… Participate in cutting-edge cryptoeconomic research, design, and analysis. Develop novel incentive systems and protocols while studying and learning from existing ones. Collaborate with cross functional teams to validate design specifications and turn research into implementations. Analyze existing incentive systems and propose improvements to policy design....

We are seeking an experienced and self-motivated distributed systems researcher to join us in understanding how to globally scale decentralized systems.  ConsensusLab ConsensusLab is a newly formed group in Protocol Labs Research that focuses on consensus and related distributed computing problems that lie at the heart of decentralized systems. We help engineering teams by addressing key bottlenecks in operational systems and networks (such as Filecoin, IPFS and libp2p) and collaborate with academia and the wider open-source community to deliver world-class research in understanding how decentralized systems scale and interconnect.  Consensus Research at Protocol Labs has delivered significant impact to our operational systems. Our work powers the largest Decentralized File Storage Network in the world. With the launch of ConsensusLab, we will be greatly expanding our research on the topic, with foci on consensus protocols, sharding, and parallel execution. Learn more...

We are seeking an experienced and self-motivated distributed systems engineer to join us in building next-generation, globally scalable decentralized systems. ConsensusLab ConsensusLab is a newly formed group in Protocol Labs Research that focuses on consensus and related distributed computing problems that lie at the heart of decentralized systems. We help engineering teams by addressing key bottlenecks in operational systems and networks (such as Filecoin, IPFS and libp2p) and collaborate with academia and the wider open-source community to deliver world-class research in understanding how decentralized systems scale and interconnect.  Consensus Research at Protocol Labs has delivered significant impact to our operational systems. Our work powers the largest Decentralized File Storage Network in the world. With the launch of ConsensusLab, we will be greatly expanding our research on the topic, with foci on consensus protocols, sharding, and parallel execution. Learn...

About the Opportunity   Our mission is to help the next billion people experience the future of finance. We’re looking for UX Researchers to help define the future of our products, set strategies, and develop a culture of research driven user experience. We have offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, and while this role is listed in San Francisco,   we are remote-first and believe in you working wherever you work best.   Okcoin's customer base is evolving as more everyday people embark on their crypto-finance journey. We are seeking an experienced UX researcher to help us augment growth initiatives and dive deeper with testing for our Learn squad. You will regularly provide insights around the optimal voice, tone, and language to help our customers continuously grow in their confidence, knowledge, and applied understanding of crypto and DeFi concepts. You will be an instrumental part of the team, advising on roadmaps and key decision-making in...

About the Opportunity   Our mission is to help the next billion people experience the future of finance. We’re looking for UX Researchers to help define the future of our products, set strategies, and develop a culture of research driven user experience. We have offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, and while this role is listed in San Francisco,   we are remote-first and believe in you working wherever you work best.   Okcoin's customer base is evolving as more everyday people embark on their crypto-finance journey. We are seeking an experienced UX researcher to help us augment growth initiatives and get deeper with testing for our DeFi-centric squads. You will regularly provide insights around how to help our customers continuously grow in their confidence, knowledge, and applied understanding of crypto and DeFi concepts, including our Earn product and staking needs. You will be an instrumental part of the team, advising on roadmaps and key...

About the Opportunity   Our mission is to help the next billion people experience the future of finance. We’re looking for UX Researchers to help define the future of our products, set strategies, and develop a culture of research driven user experience. We have offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, and while this role is listed in San Francisco, we are remote-first and believe in you working wherever you work best.  Okcoin's customer base is evolving as more everyday people embark on their crypto-finance journey. We are seeking an experienced researcher to help us up-level our surveying and analytical capabilities, and uncover insights about current and potential users to shape our product and marketing strategy. As our first quant-centric research hire, you will be an instrumental part of the team, advising on personas, user journeys, and UX analytics-based decision-making for Okcoin. Success will be measured by designing, executing, and...

The Company As the world's most advanced peer-to-peer crypto-products trading platform and API, BitMEX gives knowledge, confidence, and precision to hundreds of thousands of traders, transacting billions of USD per day. BitMEX Academy is the education arm of the BitMEX family of crypto trading businesses. Our mission is to provide first in class education experiences where anyone interested in learning more or skilling up in crypto trading or any relevant subject areas can come for deep, accessible and impactful instruction. Our goal is to become the go to provider of these education experiences for the expanding crypto community and demystify the mechanics of trading crypto to a wider audience. Join us, as we build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem of BitMEX, through strategic investments in emerging cryptocurrency technology, and create the future of digital financial services. Overview We are seeking an experience Academy Research Associate to join our new...