April 26, 2023

Applied Cryptography Researcher at Spacemesh

Spacemesh is a open-source software and all software work done for Spacemesh is contributed to the world under a permissive software license.

To get a full sense of our motivation, vision, scope, and values please available here.

If you want to work on a layer one project, and be at the forefront of the next major tech disruption – decentralized programmable money – apply to join us.

We are looking for an exceptional applied cryptography researcher to join our growing research team.

You will be able to enjoy:

A flat and fully remote structure, with team members in The United States, Italy, Ukraine, Israel, Germany, India, Taiwan, and more.
Open source exposure
flexible hours
regular research and developers sync-up
Full responsibility for the quality and delivery of major platform components
A chance to work closely with the Spacemesh world-class researchers Iddo Bentov
Working closely with the open-source community
A tokens package and a competitive salary

Responsibilities:

Evaluate the security and implementation correctness of open source crypto software components and libraries.
Provide concrete recommendations for improving the security, implementation correctness, and quality of these components.
Coordinate and incorporate feedback on tasks from other members of the Spacemesh research team.
Communicate protocol specification to the dev team and assist developing software requirements for implementation.

Sample Tasks:

Review the group arithmetic functions of a specific crypto library for implementation correctness of the theoretical constructs and operations, and recommend additional test cases to improve the library’s quality.
Review the implementation correctness and the security of a new key derivation algorithm for creating elliptic curve signature key pairs from a random seed algorithm, based on published research.

Skills & Experience:

Excellent advanced math skills.
Advanced degree in applied cryptography.
Good familiarity with the latest academic research applicable to blockchain security and cryptography.
Good knowledge of modern crypto primitives.
Good understanding of elliptic curve based cryptography, in particular, signature schemes.
Good knowledge of modern elliptic curve signature theory.
Skillful in python (for prototyping or communicate spec in pseudo code).
Comfortable reading C/C++, Go and Rust code

Think you are a good fit and excited to hear more? We’d love to hear from you.