About The Company

Who Are We?

Obol Labs is a remote-first research and software development team focused on Proof of Stake infrastructure for public blockchain networks. Specific topics of focus are Internet Bonds, Distributed Validator Technology, and Multi-Operator Validation. The core team includes +20 members spread across +10 countries.

The core team is building the Obol Network, a protocol to foster trust-minimized staking through multi-operator validation. This will enable low-trust access to Ethereum staking yield, which can be used as a core building block in various Web3 products.

Job Short Description

Job Description

Research Engineers are passionate about DVT and have a thorough understanding of the Ethereum Stack. This role is responsible for charting the next order of magnitude improvement in Distributed Validator Technology by researching and prototyping novel cryptography, solidity, and consensus implementations. At Obol we are stripping Ethereum clients down to their fundamentals and rebuilding them in a highly-available by default, byzantine tolerant architecture, capable of being run by multiple operators. This project will push the envelope on distributed systems and their coordination via smart contracts beyond what has been seen in the space to date.

Responsibilities

• • Prototype and design cluster migration mechanisms, and key resharing schemes that allow for operator addition and replacement, and validator addition. 
  • Research manners to objectively prove DV performance to a solidity contract using ZKPs, VDFs, MPC schemes and the EVM consensus layer interface. 
  • Research manners to reduce the cost of these performance measures by taking computation into a state channel layer between operators.
  • Integrate novel consensus mechanisms into charon to reduce communication rounds, add attributability, and to increase scale and performance of DVs.
  • Develop EVM smart contracts for the provisioning of Ethereum distributed validators
  • Participate in the hiring processes of the Obol Technical Team

What you will like about us

• • Developing open-source public goods for permissionless networks
  • Solving groundbreaking problems in distributed cryptography and crypto-economics
  • Fully Remote, flexible working hours (Independent contractor)
  • Unlimited paid time off (based on our company policy)
  • Personal hardware & professional training budget
  • Annual opportunity to attend DevCon (or a blockchain conference of choice)
  • Opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading cryptography researchers and advisors