Senior Researcher, Mechanism Design - Remote

Overview

Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After recently raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of mechanisms and policies in existing blockchains, with strong opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of existing mechanisms.
• Excellent knowledge of major DeFi primitives (AMMs, bridges, oracles, etc).
• Excellent technical communication skills.
• Extreme technical curiosity.
• Attention to detail.
• Creativity.
• Resourcefulness and independence.
• Clarity of thought.
• Enthusiasm about learning and teaching.
• Enthusiasm for Monad’s mission of enabling far more decentralized computation.

Benefits

• Challenging problems with massive impact.
• Huge opportunity for innovation in decentralized technology.
• Part of an exceptional team.
• Culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Well-capitalized with backing from leading venture funds.
• Resources for growth as the company scales.