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Research Cryptographer & Mathematician
Employment type: Full-time/Company: Heliax
Heliax is a remote-first company researching and building open-source protocols and products (e.g., Anoma, Namada) focused on privacy-preserving distributed systems and alternative coordination paradigms.
Applicants must be based in Europe (including UK) and willing to travel to Berlin for initial onboarding.
Responsibilities:
- Design new cryptographic protocols (e.g., shielded state sync) to meet specified information-flow, security, and performance goals.
- Evaluate and analyze existing proof systems (zkSNARKs, zkSTARKs, Halo2, Risc0 zkVM, etc.) for security, expressivity, and performance.
- Update, reimplement, and combine existing cryptographic protocols for proofs-of-concept and production use-cases.
- Produce comprehensive technical specifications and collaborate with engineers on implementations.
- Implement, review, and test cryptographic operations and protocols, primarily in Rust.
Requirements:
- Strong mathematical and/or cryptographic background (complexity theory, abstract algebra, protocol design).
- Expertise in constructive protocol design and analysis of distributed cryptographic protocols.
- Demonstrable work (research papers, projects, implementations, or detailed write-ups) showing protocol design.
Nice to have:
- Published papers in mathematics, theoretical computer science, or cryptography.
- Experience with distributed systems and/or operating-systems architecture.
- Experience with Zerocash/Zexe/VeriZexe and related architectures.
- Academic qualifications in cryptography or mathematics.
Stack:
Rust, zkSNARKs, zkSTARKs, Halo2, ProtoStar, Risc0 zkVM, Arkworks, elliptic curves, DKG, threshold encryption
Benefits:
- Relocation assistance to Germany (e.g., visa support).
- High degree of independence in working conditions and task prioritization.
- Opportunity to work closely with a small team on cross-disciplinary research and systems.
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