Senior Protocol Researcher - Blockchain Sharding

March 19

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Autonomys

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Autonomys is a company that provides infrastructure for the development and deployment of decentralized AI applications, known as AI3. 0. It offers a distributed storage network called Subspace Protocol, which ensures permanent data availability using a unique consensus mechanism called Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS). Autonomys supports AI-powered decentralized applications (super dApps) and provides tools like Auto ID for digital identity management and Auto SDK for developers. Additionally, it hosts a range of applications for farming and managing blockchain nodes, and focuses on decentralized, scalable execution environments for AI and blockchain functionalities. Their services emphasize secure, permanent, and scalable solutions for AI and blockchain technologies.

11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• Autonomys Network, in collaboration with the Subspace Foundation, is supporting an open research effort led by our Technical Co-Founder, on designing a permissionless unbounded sharding protocol. • This role is for a Senior Protocol Researcher with strong expertise in permissionless blockchain consensus protocols and distributed systems. • The goal is to design a permissionless sharding protocol that extends PoAS while maintaining its permissionless property with, ideally, shared security across unbounded number of shards. • This work builds upon the Subspace v2 (Dilithium) consensus, which was developed over several years and launched as Autonomys Network. • The work is open-ended but with clear milestones, focusing on extending our Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS) consensus protocol. • Given this is an open research role, there is flexibility in how the work is structured. We would like to have someone that can commit to a full time contract, but we are open to part time commitments for the right person.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong expertise in permissionless consensus protocols (Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Space) and large-scale distributed systems like public blockchains. • Familiarity with current landscape of blockchain sharding designs and blockchain protocols at large. • High agency: solving complex problems, proposing alternatives and novel solutions with minimal to no oversight. • Strong communication skills: responsiveness in async communications, timely updates about progress and any roadblocks, and ability to explain complex topics in approachable way. • Result-oriented, not process-oriented. • Ability to formalize and evaluate properties of cryptographic protocols. • Ability to author research articles and papers.