Category Labs

Research Scientist

• 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.

Senior Researcher, Mechanism Design

Full-stack Engineer

• Work on greenfield performance-oriented projects in a fast-moving startup environment
• Research ideas for accelerating EVM bytecode execution
• Design and implement performant production systems

Senior Software Engineer, Compiler

• Designing performant algorithms and architectures related to storage or recovery, in single-node or distributed environments.
• Researching new architectures

Senior Researcher, Mechanism Design

Senior Software Engineer, Compiler

Senior Researcher, Systems