Alchemy is hiring a

Web3 Fund Associate (Technical Research)

The Role

As a Research Engineer, you’ll be focused on performing in-depth technical overviews regarding investments and new products. The role will focus on 3 pillars:

1. Technical Analysis & Investment Research: Conduct rigorous technical analysis and assessments of potential investment opportunities within the web3 ecosystem, providing essential data and insight to inform investment decisions.
2. Product Research & Development: Collaborate with the product development and engineering teams within our portfolio companies to assist in the design and implementation of Alchemy products within their business.
3. Industry Trends & Insights: Produce highly technical, quantitative content about our investments, upcoming trends and new products, and more generalized macro market analysis for the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Technical and Whitepaper Analysis: Conduct in-depth technical assessments of potential investment opportunities and current portfolio companies to assist in investment due diligence.
• Research Content: Produce in-depth quantitative market research and content that will live and be redistributed through our various content channels.
• Portfolio Engineering: Assist our portfolio companies in integrating Alchemy products throughout their tech stack, from first principle systems designs perspectives.
• Open Source Contribution: Contribute to leading open source GitHub repositories, focusing on creating public goods for the greater web3 community.
• Product Overviews: Provide the rest of the team with technical overviews of emerging products and protocols, down to the cryptography or mathematics behind the product.
• New Product Development: Help prototype and implement new products for Alchemy based off the synthesis of technical due diligence and research implementation.

What We're Looking For:

• 2-4 years as a researcher or engineer within the web3 space.
• Experience in writing and deploying highly complicated Solidity contracts.
• Ability to understand highly technical concepts and distill them down to easily understandable content for the rest of the team and our greater audience.
• Experience in protocol or systems designs for high velocity web3 startups or protocols.
• Has been following the space closely to understand the relevant narratives and trends that are going to create 80% of the impact within the ecosystem
• Has lived the founder's life or has a strong understanding of what that’s like
• Has to be extremely confident paired with a strong technical background that can actively contribute to industry-advancing conversations.
• Has worked at a startup before or has a passion for helping startups succeed and thrive
• Major or minor in computer science or mathematics
• Experience working in a theoretical computer science lab or role.

Apply Now: