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Zk Research Engineer (Blockchain - Zones team)

Logos is an open-source decentralized technology stack providing modular blockchain, storage, and messaging infrastructure for privacy-preserving applications.

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About Logos Execution Zone (LEZ)

Logos Execution Zone (LEZ) is a programmable blockchain that cleanly separates public and private states while keeping them fully interoperable. Developers can build apps that operate across transparent and privacy-preserving accounts without changing their logic. Privacy is enforced by the protocol itself through zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), so it is always available and automatic.

LEZ aims to deliver full programmability in a hybrid public/private model, with the same flexibility and composability as public blockchains. Developers write and deploy programs in LEZ without addressing privacy concerns. Privacy is protocol-level: programs do not change, accounts are treated uniformly, and private execution works out of the box.

The role:

In this role, you will be responsible for actively participating in research, prototyping ideas, transforming research prototypes into production, and conducting code reviews.

Your responsibilities will also include planning, implementing, and shipping end-to-end functionality. As well as profiling bottlenecks, hardening cryptographic components and testing them.

The candidate should have experience with modern cryptography, familiar with zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs), blockchain or other peer-to-peer systems, and motivated by decentralisation and privacy.

Key responsibilities:

  • Improve existing protocol mechanisms and actively participate in research.
  • Transform research output into production systems.

You ideally will have:

  • Solid Rust knowledge.
  • Understanding of cryptography and zk-based blockchain systems.
  • Ability to propose improvements to the core protocol.
  • Experience working across different time zones.
  • Strong asynchronous team work.
  • Alignment to IFT / Logos values https://logos.co/manifesto.

Bonus points:

  • Experience with RISC0.
  • Participated in building blockchain projects.
  • Conducted and implemented core protocol level systems.
  • Experience in testing systems and identifying vulnerabilities.

Hiring process:

  1. Interview with our POps team.
  2. Interview with Zones Team Lead.
  3. Pair programming task with the Zones team.
  4. Interview with the Blockchain Team Lead.

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

Compensation:

The expected compensation range for this role is negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

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About Nomos

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Logos is a decentralized technology stack built to revitalize civil society through open, privacy-preserving infrastructure. The company provides a modular, plugin-based runtime for building truly decentralized applications that strengthen user agency, privacy, and security. Their unified ecosystem consists of four core modules: Blockchain for scalable, trustless agreements with network-level privacy; Storage for censorship-resistant, decentralized data persistence; Messaging for private peer-to-peer communication resistant to surveillance; and a modular runtime that enables nodes to dynamically discover and load modules while preserving privacy.

The Logos technology stack is designed for sovereignty, modularity, and privacy preservation - allowing developers to build applications without exposing identifying information such as location and transaction details. Built on foundations like libp2p, their protocols enable efficient, scalable communication while protecting against denial-of-service attacks. Testnet v0.1 is currently available for experimentation, marking the first time all Logos modules are packaged together into a unified stack. The project attracts former researchers, founders, and senior engineers united by frustration with current centralized systems and a commitment to building alternatives that remain resistant to capture and corruption.

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