Cryptography Research Engineer – Anonymous MACI
21 hours ago
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Summary
DoraHacks is seeking a Cryptography Research Engineer – Anonymous MACI to join their team in Palo Alto, CA. The role involves designing and engineering novel cryptographic mechanisms for decentralized governance systems.
About the Role
As a Cryptography Research Engineer, you will focus on advancing the MACI and anonymous MACI protocols. Your responsibilities include researching enhancements for scalability and anonymity, implementing cryptographic primitives, collaborating with teams for real-world deployments, conducting security analysis, optimizing cryptographic circuits, and contributing to open-source projects.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Cryptography, Foundation Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or related fields.
- Experience working with libraries like Circom, Halo2, Arkworks, or gnark.
- Solid understanding of cryptographic protocols such as zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, and anonymous credentials.
- Experience implementing cryptographic systems in Rust, TypeScript, or Solidity.
- A strong understanding of privacy, identity, and governance challenges in decentralized systems.
Preferred:
- Contributions to open-source cryptography repos or zero-knowledge proof systems.
- Prior experience with MACI or anonymous voting systems.
- Familiarity with Ethereum and layer-2 ecosystems, especially ZK-rollups.
- Familiarity with CosmosSDK and CosmosWasm.
- Publications or active participation in cryptography or blockchain research communities.
- Familiarity with governance design, decentralized voting mechanisms, and DAOs.
DoraHacks
DoraHacks is the leading global hackathon community and open source developer incentive platform. DoraHacks provides toolkits for open source technology platforms to organize hackathons and fund early-stage ecosystem startups. DoraHacks creates a global hacker movement in Blockchain, Web3, Quantum Computing, AI, and Space Tech. So far, more than 21,000 startup teams from the DoraHacks community have received over $80M in funding. A large number of open source communities, companies and blockchain ecosystems are actively using DoraHacks together with its BUIDL AI capabilities for organizing hackathons and funding open source initiatives.
Palo Alto, CA