Role overview
About Status
Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.
With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.
What you'll work on
- Apply ZK proof systems to the RLNP2P context
- Analyze existing proof systems with the goal of reduce RLNâs proving time
- Write specifications and communicate research findings through write-ups
- Break down complex problems, and know what can and what canât be dealt with later
- Perform security analysis, measure performance of and debug circuits
What we're looking for
- Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience.
- Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
- Experience with Open Source software.
- Deep understanding of Zero-Knowledge proof systems (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo2, zk-STARK), elliptic curve cryptography, and circuit design.
- Strong distributed systems experience, or strong network software experience.
- Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers.
- Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
- A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
Tags & focus areas
Used for matching and alerts on DevFound Zero Knowledge Research Dev Remote Blockchain Crypto Ethereum Java Rust Zk Snark