Founded by [Jump Trading](https://www.jumptrading.com/) alums, [Monad Labs](https://www.monadlabs.xyz/) is a tech startup using low-latency programming, compiler optimization, and multithreaded computing to build an ultra-high-performance smart contract platform. The work entails building an optimal stack-based VM that supports multithreaded computation, as well as developing and implementing an efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) algorithm enabling a network of nodes to come to consensus.

**The Role**

Monad Labs is looking for strong software engineers who enjoy solving challenging performance engineering and low-level optimizations problems. Candidates with experience developing systems with lean memory and compute limits are an ideal match. You will be part of a small, deeply technical team, working on high-impact problems in a fast-paced environment. Although we are building a new blockchain, previous experience with crypto is not expected.

**Who you are**

- Resourceful and self-motivated
- Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator
- Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
- Opinionated about software architecture
- Motivated to push the limits of system performance through repeated optimization
- Interested in building high-value fault-tolerant distributed systems

**What you’ve done**

- Years of C++ development experience
- HFT or embedded systems development, such as writing software for packet processing, communication, codecs, robotics, etc.
- Excellent instincts for software architecture
- Knowledge of performance optimization/profiling tools
- Knowledge of proper memory management
- Knowledge of unix, shell scripting, and python
- Ideal but not required: Bachelors in technical field; 5 years’ experience

**What you’ll be doing**

- Optimizing a high-performance multithreaded stack-based VM, as well as ancillary functionality (disk I/O, computation metering, network)
- Identifying bottlenecks through profiling, and evaluate design choices for accelerating computation flow
- Designing and implementing architecture improvements
- Contributing to developer tooling
- Tech stack: C++, clang, LLVM, gdb, perf, unix, git

**Why work with us**

- Work on extremely challenging problems with massive potential impact
- Competitive salary, along with equity
- Mental wellness and fitness stipend
- Shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
- Flat organization

**Salary and benefits**



Monad Labs’ benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off; insurance coverage; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 10 company-observed holidays.

Senior Software Engineer, Low-Latency Systems

[Monad Labs](https://www.monadlabs.xyz/) is a venture-backed startup building the **Monad blockchain**, a high-performance smart contract platform built to bring world adoption to decentralized apps. Monad delivers 1000x the throughput of Ethereum—10,000 transactions per second—while maintaining backward-compatibility for Ethereum smart contracts, offering users and developers the best of both worlds.

Founded by [Jump Trading](https://www.jumptrading.com/) alums, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, authoring novel open source code to implement a new, high-performance, high-reliability, high-value system.

After recently [raising](https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/monad-labs-raises-19m-to-grow-its-smart-contract-platform-and-improve-the-ethereum-space/) a $19 million seed round backed by [Dragonfly Capital](https://www.dragonfly.xyz/), [Placeholder Capital](https://placeholder.vc/), [Naval Ravikant](https://nav.al/), and other leaders in the crypto space, we are hiring a few more exceptional engineers who want to work on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment.

## The Role

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Applied Cryptographer who is interested in cryptographic protocols and their application to blockchain. You will play a leading role in designing and implementing critical components of the blockchain, such as signature schemes, threshold encryption, distributed key generation, and zero-knowledge proofs. Your work will significantly contribute to the security and scalability of the platform.

### Who you are

- Resourceful and self-motivated
- Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator
- Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
- Opinionated about software architecture
- Motivated to push the limits of system performance through repeated optimization
- Interested in building high-value fault-tolerant distributed systems

### Requirements:

- Advanced degree in applied cryptography
- 5 years of experience in applied cryptography in an academic or industrial setting
- Excellent knowledge of modern cryptography primitives, such as zero-knowledge proofs, signature schemes, threshold encryption, and MPC
- Strong programming skills in languages like python or C++

### **Bonus:**

- Research publications
- Contributions to open source projects
- Startup experience

### What you’ll be doing

- Designing and implementing crucial cryptographic components of the blockchain, such as signature schemes, threshold encryption, distributed key generation, and zero-knowledge proofs.
- Conducting literature review and researching opportunities to incorporate the latest advances into the workflow.

### Why work with us

- You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact
- You’ll work with and learn from a small, exceptional [team](https://www.monadlabs.xyz/team)
- You’ll receive a competitive salary, along with equity
- You’ll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
- You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
- Your work will be deeply impactful, enabling much cheaper and more efficient decentralized computation and ultimately paving the way for new dapps that improve many people’s lives.



Senior Applied Cryptographer

[Monad Labs](https://www.monadlabs.xyz/) is a venture-backed startup building the Monad blockchain, a high-performance smart contract platform built to bring world adoption to decentralized apps. Monad delivers 1000x the throughput of Ethereum—10,000 transactions per second—while maintaining backward-compatibility for Ethereum smart contracts, offering users and developers the best of both worlds.

Founded by [Jump Trading](https://www.jumptrading.com/) alums, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, authoring novel open source code to implement a new, high-performance, high-reliability, high-value system.

After [raising](https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/monad-labs-raises-19m-to-grow-its-smart-contract-platform-and-improve-the-ethereum-space/) a $19 million seed round backed by [Dragonfly Capital](https://www.dragonfly.xyz/), [Placeholder Capital](https://placeholder.vc/), [Naval Ravikant](https://nav.al/), and other leaders in the crypto space, we are hiring a few more exceptional engineers who want to work on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment.

**The Role**

Monad Labs is looking for an exceptional quant to work on data science and machine learning problems in the blockchain space.  The work will be challenging, as it will involve predictive modeling for a variety of topics like transaction dependencies, user behavior, network behavior, etc.  We’re looking for someone who has excelled in other environments where predictive analytics had a direct impact on the bottom line, such as high-frequency trading or traditional tech.  Your work will directly impact the performance and economics of one of the biggest upcoming blockchain projects in the space.

**What You’ll Do**

- Work on greenfield predictive modeling problems related to blockchain performance and system/user behavior. Problems may be open-ended; you’ll have to devise and prototype a variety of approaches before finding the correct solution.
- Implement production-grade solutions and take end-to-end ownership of production prediction pipelines.

**Who You Are**

- At least 3 years of experience building predictive models, preferably at a HFT firm
- You’re creative, self-motivated and independent
- You have excellent knowledge of predictive modeling techniques including linear regression, decision trees, and neural nets
- You know numpy and pandas like the back of your hand
- You’ve built something significant from scratch
- Strong Bonus: You are crypto-native

**Why work with us**

- You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact
- You’ll work with a small, exceptional team (bios here: https://monad.xyz/team)
- You’ll receive a competitive salary and competitive total compensation package
- You’ll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
- You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
- Your work will be deeply impactful, enabling a much cheaper and more efficient computation platform



Quantitative Researcher

Monad

We are building the Monad blockchain, an ultra-high-performance EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain designed to bring world adoption to decentralized apps. We help the EVM scale by enabling parallel execution and other significant innovations in distributed consensus and smart contract execution.

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