at Monad
Monad Labs is creating the foundation for a new world of powerful decentralized applications. We’ve developed the first parallel EVM executor, and have paired it with significant innovations on consensus, pipelining, and storage to build the Monad blockchain, an ultra-performant EVM-equivalent blockchain supporting 10,000 TPS while remaining highly decentralized.
Our mission is to enable a new universe of apps—use cases and user flows that are currently impossible—that take advantage of this efficient, interconnected environment, ultimately unleashing the power of decentralization to make the world more efficient and fair.
About Monad
Monad Labs is an early-stage crypto startup founded by HFT engineers from Jump Trading and backed by some of the world’s leading crypto investors, including Dragonfly, Cobie, and Hasu. We are working on the most impactful problem in crypto: building a high-performance blockchain to address severe bottlenecks in existing systems.
The Monad blockchain offers the best of both worlds for dapp developers: performance and portability. Our key differentiator is the combination of extremely high performance while continuing to support the Ethereum Virtual Machine, as well as standard infrastructure such as Metamask and Etherscan. To do this, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems and low-level optimization.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Protocol Researcher to design and evaluate rules and mechanisms in Monad that keep the system running smoothly. You’ll be designing rules that optimize for true decentralization, economic security, network value accrual, spam prevention, compatibility with existing infrastructure, and ease of use.
You will work closely with our engineering team to design and test various mechanisms. You’ll draw on your extensive knowledge and opinions on mechanisms in existing blockchains to evaluate options for Monad’s design that optimize its security, decentralization, and performance. You’ll work on a variety of areas, such as transaction ordering, staking, and consensus. Most importantly, your work will help our team avoid security threats and the threat of centralization.
Your work will be vital to Monad’s success and will allow Monad to scale safely to hundreds of millions of users.
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Working at Monad Labs means doing challenging work on a high-impact problem with exceptional teammates.
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We think you’ll enjoy working with us, and that you’ll find the work to be extremely impactful and challenging.
Salary and benefits
Minimum full-time salary of $150,000 - $200,000. (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)
Monad Labs’ benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off; 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) participation; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 11 company-observed holidays.
This is a remote position, with a preference for candidates who can work with us in person (2-3 days per week) in NYC.