Protocol Research Lead

We are looking for a Protocol Research Lead to join and take over the leadership of our research team. Building a truly secure, scalable, and decentralized zero-knowledge rollup requires considerable research work, including solving many open problems around protocol and mechanism design.

Your day-to-day work as a researcher at Scroll will involve conducting research on Ethereum and layer 2 design. This research will need to cover a very large scope including rollup economics, state growth, EVM, MEV, PBS, AA, Layer 3, etc.

We are looking for somebody with a deep understanding of protocol research as well as basic coding ability, who can directly contribute to research whilst leading and building a team of other world class researchers.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and continue the build of a world class research team at Scroll.
  
• Manage a small but growing globally distributed research team whilst directly contributing with your own research.
  
• Represent and present for Scroll at conferences and events.
  
• Survey existing layer 2 and Ethereum protocols through code and papers.
  
• Propose new designs and optimizations for our layer 2 protocol.
  
• Propose new designs and optimizations for Ethereum (i.e. propose layer 2 related EIPs).
  
• Explore new research directions (i.e. EVM, MEV, PBS, AA, Layer 3, etc).
  
• Output high quality content (i.e. talk, blog post, research post).
  
• Keep the engineering team up to date with the latest ideas in protocol research.
  
• Establish collaborations with universities and external researchers to solve open problems.

Requirements and Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in a research role within crypto / web3.
  
• 1+ years of experience leading a team of at least 2+ researchers.
  
• Familiarity with Layer 2 and Ethereum infrastructure.
  
• Ability to read and write academic papers, understand and propose EIPs.
  
• Ability to present and explain cutting-edge crypto research to engineers clearly.
  
• Experience in blockchain infrastructure development or cryptography preferred.
  
• Fluency in Golang, Rust, C++, or similar languages. We work primarily in Golang and Rust, but prior experience is not mandatory.