Protocol Engineer Jobs

About Tephra Labs
Tephra Labs builds technology for large-scale human coordination. We believe that new coordination structures are needed for humanity to address our largest challenges and opportunities. At Tephra Labs, we take an open-source, protocol-driven approach to building the necessary solutions to meet these needs. Our first product is Radius, a decentralized network that connects independent workers and teams to the best projects in web3. The team behind Tephra Labs’ products, protocols, and communities is mission-oriented, dedicated, and hardworking. We are fully remote, and our teammates are based around the world.

As a member of the Tephra Labs team, you will join an early-stage team that is building foundational tooling for the future of work. Our team is cross-functional, and you will be working closely with product managers, engineers, product designers, protocol designers, writers, and community managers. We are looking for teammates that are world-class at what they do, are comfortable defining a path through ambiguity, and want to do whatever it takes to support the Tephra Labs mission.

As a Web3 Protocol Designer and Engineer at Tephra Labs, you will:

• Design & prototype reputation, identity, and skills protocols to support the needs of billions of workers in web3
• Design & prototype cryptoeconomic mechanisms for various Tephra Labs projects
• Collaborate closely with engineers, security auditors, and senior stakeholders to finalize protocol designs and land production implementations

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have experience as a protocol designer and engineer on web3 projects
• Are deeply passionate about designing rigorous technical protocols to address problems of human coordination and structuring work
• Are a first principles and systems thinker and apply a systems thinking mindset to everything you do
• Will leave no stone unturned in investigating potential weaknesses and attacks for various mechanism designs
• Are an excellent communicator and enjoy documenting mechanism design and gathering feedback
• Collaborate well with other protocol designers, engineers, and senior stakeholders
• Have an engineering background and can prototype designed mechanisms
• Have experience building technical simulations to evaluate mechanisms under different conditions
• Have extremely high attention to detail

Bonus points:

• Have contributed to open-source projects in the past and understand open-source culture
• Early-stage startup experience
• Have 3-5 years of experience as an engineer

Tephra Labs focuses on Internet Infrastructure, Future Of Work, and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in New York City and Remote. They have a small team that's between 1-10 employees. To date, Tephra Labs has raised $1.5M of funding; their latest round was closed on May 2022.

You can view their website at https://tephra.com