About the company
PIP Labs is a research and engineering company at the forefront of decentralized technologies, intellectual property (IP), and artificial intelligence (AI). As a core contributor to the Story L1 blockchain, we’re building cutting-edge infrastructure and user-facing applications that empower creators, developers, and communities to own, remix, and monetize IP in radically new ways.
Job Summary
What You'll Do:
📍Design, build, and improve Cosmos SDK modules and Geth precompiled contracts 📍Design and implement new cryptographic primitives such as Distributed Key Generation (DKG) and Threshold decryption 📍Work closely with platform, infra, and product teams to define system behavior and integrate new protocol features 📍Optimize consensus and execution performance, reliability, and efficiency 📍Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews 📍Investigate potential reported issues, debug complex distributed system behaviors, and help ensure network stability
What We're Looking For:
📍4+ years of software engineering experience, including significant work with Cosmos SDK, Tendermint/CometBFT, EVM, or other Layer 1 blockchain frameworks 📍Strong experience with Go (Golang) 📍Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and cryptography 📍Experience with blockchain architecture (consensus, state machines, storage, cryptography), or strong willingness to learn 📍Comfort working in a fast-moving startup with high ownership and end-to-end responsibility
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