Staff Rust Engineer, Cryptography Team

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Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Rust and/or C++
• Demonstrated ability to deliver software projects from inception to completion
• Understanding of algorithm design and computer architecture
• Experience writing multi-threaded, concurrent software
• Ability to think across layers of abstractions
• Mathematical aptitude, especially in linear and abstract algebra
• Experienced and well-versed in Linux, version control, scripting, and build systems
• Understanding of technology tradeoffs and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Strong written and verbal communications skills

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to internal and open-source zk-SNARK proving codebases
• Analyze their performance, and propose and implement optimizations
• Modify and refactor the codebases to utilize hardware coprocessors
• Read and implement zero-knowledge cryptography research
• Reverse engineering high-level algorithms from open-source software and smart contracts
• Designing or analyzing arithmetic constraint systems for verifiable programs
• Work closely with the FPGA engineers to specify algorithms implemented in hardware
• Work with the systems software engineers to interface efficiently with hardware acceleration units