About the company
The Nexus Project is a scientific and engineering effort bringing truth to the field of computation. We’re enabling a new form of compute: verifiable computation, powered by open science and open-source software so it can benefit everyone. Our work aims to bring to life decades of advancements in zero-knowledge cryptography, achieved by many scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, into a single software system. Nexus raised $25M in Series A funding, co-led by Lightspeed and Pantera, with participation from Dragonfly, SV Angel, and more. Our team consists of some of the world's top cryptographers, mathematicians, and engineers, all working together with one goal: to unite the world's computers and prove humanity's computations.
Job Summary
What You’ll Do
📍Design and implement protocol-level execution systems in Rust, C++, or Go. 📍Build and evolve the runtime responsible for transaction execution, order processing, and state transitions. 📍Optimize concurrency, scheduling, memory layout, and I/O for deterministic, high-throughput execution. 📍Define and implement execution abstractions that may be enshrined at the protocol layer. 📍Work with cryptography and consensus engineers to ensure safety, correctness, and composability. 📍Diagnose and resolve performance and correctness issues using profiling, tracing, and benchmarking. 📍Help establish standards for protocol correctness, reliability, and execution guarantees. 📍For senior/principal engineers: lead execution of architecture decisions and mentor engineers working on protocol systems.
What We’re Looking For
📍Strong experience with Rust, C++, Go, or other systems programming languages. 📍Experience working on protocols, runtimes, execution layers, or consensus-adjacent systems. 📍Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and low-latency execution. 📍Ability to reason about correctness, determinism, and invariants at the protocol level.
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