ZK Research Engineer (Blockchain - Zones team)
Logos
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Description
Join Logos as a ZK Research Engineer to work on the development of decentralized web technologies, focusing on privacy and cryptography.
Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web.
Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states.
Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.
**About Logos Execution Zone (LEZ)**
Logos Execution Zone (LEZ) is a programmable blockchain that cleanly separates public and private states while keeping them fully interoperable.
Developers can build apps that operate across transparent and privacy-preserving accounts without changing their logic.
Privacy is enforced by the protocol itself through zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), so it is always available and automatic.
## What you'll do
- •Actively participate in research and prototype ideas.
- •Transform research prototypes into production.
- •Conduct code reviews.
- •Plan, implement, and ship end-to-end functionality.
- •Profile bottlenecks and harden cryptographic components.
## Conditions
- •Negotiable compensation, dependent on skills and experience.
- •Payment in any mix of fiat/crypto.
Requirements
- •Experience with modern cryptography.
- •Familiarity with zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs).
- •Experience with blockchain or other peer-to-peer systems.
- •Motivation by decentralisation and privacy.
- •Solid Rust knowledge.
- •Understanding of zk-based blockchain systems.
- •Ability to propose improvements to the core protocol.
- •Experience working across different time zones.
- •Strong asynchronous teamwork.