Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.

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About Logos

Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimized, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions to underserved citizens.

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Logos’ infrastructure will provide a base for the provisioning of the next generation of governing services and social institutions - paving the way to economic opportunities for those who need them most, whilst respecting basic human rights through the network’s design.

You can read more about Logos here, A Declaration of Independence for mindful readers like yourself.

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The project

Nomos is a sovereign, modular, zk-encrypted network of blockchains. The trustless agreements layer of the Logos stack. The forthcoming Nomos network will provide a common infrastructure layer upon which communities and aspiring network states can build social, governance, and financial services that uphold their community members’ fundamental rights and values.

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Key Responsibilities

This role is dedicated to applied research. Primarily, as a researcher, you will contribute to the design of new architectural solutions.

You will design, specify and verify distributed systems by leveraging formal and experimental techniques; build proof of concepts and prepare executable specifications for the development team.

It’s expected you regularly go through papers, bring new ideas and stay up-to-date with what is emerging in the space (blockchain, other L1s, distributed systems, Zero-Knowelde proofs, etc.).

You will conduct theoretical and practical analysis of the performance of distributed systems and present research results within the org and externally (e.g. conferences).

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Ideally, you will have

• Coding experience - this is a very important criteria for this role!
• Research experience - this is a very important criteria for this role as well!
• Strong background in Computer Science and Math, or a related area.
• Distributed Systems experience with a focus in Blockchain.
• Deep knowledge of algorithms.
• Experience in analyzing the correctness of distributed systems.
• Comfortable with “reverse engineering” code in a number of languages including Java, Go, Rust, etc. If no experience in these languages, the ability to read and understand code of other projects is useful for understanding other real-world systems.
• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers.
• Strong interest in privacy, censorship-resistant technology, open protocols.

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Bonus points

• Experience working for an open-source organization.
• PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related area.
• Track record of scientific publications.

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Hiring process

1. Interview with our People Ops team
2. Interview with team member
3. Interview with team member
4. Interview with interview with Nomos Lead

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Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

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