Zero Knowledge Research Engineer

Ideally you will have:

• Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
  
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
  
• Experience with Open Source software
  
• Deep understanding of Zero-Knowledge proof systems (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo2, zk-STARK), elliptic curve cryptography, and circuit design
  
• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers.
  
• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
  
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  

Ideally you will have:

• Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
  
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
  
• Experience with Open Source software
  
• Deep understanding of Zero-Knowledge proof systems (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo2, zk-STARK), elliptic curve cryptography, and circuit design
  
• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers.
  
• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
  
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  

• Research, analyze and design proof systems and architectures for private computation
  
• Be familiar and adapt to research needs zero-knowledge circuits written in Rust Design and implement zero-knowledge circuits in Rust
  
• Write specifications and communicate research findings through write-ups
  
• Break down complex problems, and know what can and what can’t be dealt with later
  
• Perform security analysis, measure performance of and debug circuits