Senior Researcher, Mechanism Design

🕒 March 28

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $180k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧬 Research Scientist

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Category Labs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2022

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

Blockchain • Crypto • Fintech

Category Labs is a company focused on building high-performance decentralized systems and next-generation blockchain infrastructure. With a team comprised of experts from high-frequency trading, Category Labs designs scalable solutions for complex challenges in decentralized technology. The company is known for its Monad blockchain, which is EVM-compatible and capable of handling 10,000 transactions per second with minimal hardware requirements.

📋 Description

• You’ll design and evaluate mechanisms that optimize for economic security, decentralization, performance, compatibility with existing infrastructure, and ease of use. • You’ll evaluate potential attack vectors and evaluate ways to mitigate the threat of attacks. • You’ll advise the team on technical merits of other systems that are potential partners, such as bridges and DeFi protocols. • You’ll stay up to date on mechanism design in other blockchains and develop opinions on various practices • You’ll collaborate with our engineering team to design and test new mechanism options. • You’ll write about your findings for both internal and public audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of mechanisms and policies in existing blockchains, with strong opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of existing mechanisms. • Excellent knowledge of major DeFi primitives (AMMs, bridges, oracles, etc) • Excellent technical communication skills • Extreme technical curiosity • Attention to detail • Creativity • Resourcefulness and independence • Clarity of thought • Enthusiasm about learning and teaching • Enthusiasm for Monad’s mission of enabling far more decentralized computation • Nice to have: Previous experience at a L1 or L2 blockchain protocol, Experience with applied cryptography, Experience with distributed systems, Experience with game theory, Ability to code, e.g. for implementing simulations

🏖️ Benefits

• World class benefits package (medical/dental/vision) • Unlimited paid time off • 401(k) retirement plan + company match • Lunch and dinner stipend (in-office NYC) • Monthly wellness benefit • Paid parental leave