Cryptographic Researcher

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Qredo is a decentralized digital asset management infrastructure and product suite designed to unlock new opportunities for institutional investors in digital assets and decentralized finance. Qredo's Layer 2 blockchain protocol enables users to seamlessly transfer and settle BTC, ETH, and ERC-20 tokens. Assets are secured by Qredo’s advanced Gen 2.0 multi-party computation (MPC), which provides tier-1 bank security and institutional-grade governance.

At Qredo we are developing state of the art cryptographic services to solve the problem of private key management in Tier 1 blockchains. Specifically, we are using Multi-Party Computation Threshold signature scheme (MPC-TSS) for ECDSA and EdDSA to run a distributed, highly available network of signing nodes.

Responsibilities

• Keep up to date in research areas that the company is currently engaged in
• Research new areas of cryptography that may provide the company with a commercial advantage
• ​Write academic papers or white papers on research conducted at Qredo
• ​Write patents on research conducted at Qredo
• Model solutions at the mathematics layer
• Interact with the crypto engineers to aid implementation of research in to production
• Communicate Qredo's research and technological output to the academic and industrial audiences. This may require attending conferences etc.

Requirements

• Educated to PhD level in a discipline with significant mathematics content
• Significant cryptography research output in highly regarded conferences and journals
• ​Worked in a research role in an industrial setting
• ​Modeled algorithms in Python or equivalent

Qredo offers

• Flexibility to work from anywhere and possibility for international transfer
• Assistance with home office setup as well as offsite team building allowance
• Culturally diverse work environment (we speak 33 languages!)
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company
• Competitive compensation and benefits package within the industry