ZK Integrations Engineer
We’re a fast-growing tech scale-up with $36M in funding, revolutionizing the modern internet with cutting-edge solutions that drive mass-adoption. We already work with major brands such as Uber, Amazon, North Face, Temu, Lego, BMW, North Face and 100’s more. Our secret? Removing all blockchain and crypto complexities that are barriers to creating user-friendly applications solving real-world use-cases. Our investors include Multicoin, Circle Ventures, Animoca, Valor, Alliance DAO, and more. With a community of over 1M followers across all socials and a CEO who has been featured on the NYSE and NASDAQ, we believe we are only at the beginning of making XION a global brand.
We are looking to hire a permanent internal ZK/MPC/FHE/experimental cryptography engineer, to help us create consumer applications and examples using modern, bleeding edge cryptographic tooling.
Examples of work this position would tackle:
- Help us complete our zkEmail authentication mechanism
- Spearhead zkJWT as an additional authentication mechanism
- Convert zkShuffle verification contracts and front-end sdk to be usable with our VM and client SDKs
- Create example applications utilizing zkPassport, zkTLS, zkFetch, zkShuffle, etc
- Work with the protocol team to optimize performance and usability of verification modules/contracts for common/popular proving systems (groth16, halo2, etc)
- Work with the DevRel team to help document and polish tooling for large scale dev use
- Liaise and work directly with some of the top teams in the space
Desired Experience:
- Professional competence with common blockchain languages, such as Javascript/Typescript, Solidity, Rust, Golang, etc.
- Direct hands on experience with popular ZK tool-kits, such as Circom, RiscZero, SP1, Noir, etc.
- Experience working with new, unpolished tools and codebases
- Experience delivering greenfield, minimally spec'd apps to minimal usage state
- Experience building applications for and receiving feedback from end users
Desired Traits:
- A taste for glass, pushing the limits of modern cryptography
- A consumer oriented drive. A desire to see your work in the hands of the masses
- A creative mindset, coming up with interesting, unexpected use cases for cryptographic tooling
- Enthusiastic, self-driven working style. The team is fully remote, and often work is async
- Autonomous, independent engineering personality.
What we provide:
- The largest consumer userbase in crypto
- Marketing, design, and product resources
- Access to brands and products in the web2 space for product collaboration and partnership
- Competitive compensation, industry notoriety
- Substantial impact on product direction
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