Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:

• You’ll research, design, and build core improvements to the technology, such as consensus mechanism, block dissemination, state synchronization algorithm, staking module, etc.
• You’ll devise experiments to test worst-case scenarios, and iterate on your design based on the results in internal test networks
• You’ll design components while surveying the behavior of other blockchain systems such as rollups, bridges, or staking systems
• You’ll build performant system components from scratch in Rust or C++

Requirements:

• You are one of the following:
  • A CS (or equivalent) undergraduate
  • MSCS student graduating no later than May 2025
• You have 0-3 years of software engineering experience
• You’re fluent in C++ or Rust
• You have taken an Operating Systems class and have excellent knowledge of operating systems fundamentals (concurrency, memory management)
• You’ve challenged yourself on advanced topics beyond the CS major requirements (topics like operating systems, RTOS, compilers, cryptography, performance engineering, parallel computing)
• You’ve made significant contributions to a large, challenging project (bonus points for open-source contributions)
• You have experience with writing performant code and utilizing tools like perf and valgrind to identify hotspots
• You are extremely curious; you’re motivated to understand details of how systems work
• You’re resourceful and independent
• You understand the importance of excellent communication and documentation
• (Bonus) You have experience with kernel development