Senior Software Engineer, FVM

Protocol Labs is seeking an extraordinary Sr. Software Engineer for the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) project. The FVM project aims to bring user-programmability to the Filecoin network and currently supports EVM smart contracts. The successful candidate will play a key role in improving the blockchain VM, designing and implementing native FVM interoperability with other chains, and creating developer tooling and SDKs to enhance the FVM developer experience.

• Develop and ship the first smart contract implementation that operates on the Filecoin chain
• Define compatibility with and support for existing smart contract execution tool chains and implementations such as EVM and Solidity
• Collaborate with other Filecoin engineering and ecosystem teams to ensure integration with existing systems and contribute to other projects to support FVM
• Create or maintain software libraries and programs depended on by other systems and applications
• Partner with peer developer advocates to support the developer community when complex issues arise
• Quantify performance, security, and other properties of existing and proposed systems; suggest improvements based on the data
• Partner with academia and the broader community in exploring new and out-of-the-box approaches to designing and implementing next-generation decentralized systems
• Work in a fully remote and asynchronous team
• Analyze, criticize, and improve the design of complex computation systems
• Provide and receive constructive feedback
• Stay up-to-date with new academic literature for problem-solving
• Mentor or write technical explainers or blog posts to test understanding
• Design and execute on engineering and/or research agendas
• Set up and manage research collaborations or contractors
• Develop productive working relationships with diverse technical teams

• BSc degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Programming experience in one or more of the following: Rust, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar
• Experience building a low-level untrusted code environment and managing resource usage
• Ability to analyze, criticize, and improve the design of complex computation systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Pragmatic "get it done" attitude and the ability to provide and receive constructive feedback
• Bonus points for demonstrating innovation in distributed systems and/or process virtual machines, contributing to research/development communities, familiarity with academic literature, experience in technical project management, and success in developing productive working relationships with diverse technical teams.

• Fully distributed and remote work opportunities
• Opportunity to work on breakthroughs in computing and push humanity forward
• Work in the intersection of exciting fields such as web3, cryptography, networks, and distributed systems
• Collaborate with passionate teammates and community members
• Opportunity to work on the most challenging problems in planetary-scale decentralized technologies
• Rich ground for ideation and prototyping
• Ability to translate theory into reality
• Opportunity to test new ideas in real-world scenarios
• Impactful research and development work
• Transform the way entire classes of problems are solved
• Supportive and collaborative work environment
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge research and technology
• Opportunity to contribute to open-source projects
• Fully remote and asynchronous team work
• Competitive salary and benefits package