About the role

Your responsibilities will include designing prototypes, analyzing solution trade-offs, formalizing technical decisions, and implementing novel research. You will work closely with engineers and operators with deep experience building and shipping products in the ML and blockchain space.

• Partner closely with Ritual product, and research teams to design prototypes and iterate with the engineering team towards production-grade solutions
• Review code and technical proposals with feedback for other team members
• Work in domains such as distributed/p2p systems, AI/ML, and blockchain/cryptocurrency
• Use tools and languages such as Python/Pytorch, Rust, GCP
• Use your experience to build, test, debug, and deploy large-scale decentralized systems across hundreds of nodes

About you

• Be fluent in a systems’ language such as Rust, C, C++, assembly languages, shell scripting, DSLs etc
• Have a level of expertise in one or more of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, operating systems, and runtimes to be able to read research papers in the field and design systems based on them
• Experience building and shipping production-level systems or applications; emphasis for systems involving ML or incentive design
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities

Why join us 

• Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure 
• Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
• Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
• 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare 
• Aggressive company 401k match
• Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
• Participate in virtual and in-person events
• Much much more!