Cryptography Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Cryptography Engineer at Renegade, a seed-stage startup in San Francisco. The role involves working on the company's ZKP and MPC proving stacks, implementing core cryptographic primitives, optimizing them for low-latency execution, and helping with internal audits.

Requirements

• Background in pure math, cryptography, or security research
• Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation, or ability to pick it up quickly
• Ability to work with zero-knowledge cryptography libraries, including Arkworks, Circom, and Dalek
• Ability to work with StarkNet and the Cairo language
• Experience with practical zero-knowledge proof implementations, ability to write latency-optimized code

Responsibilities

• Implement core cryptographic primitives (SPDZ, Bulletproofs, ElGamal, etc.) and optimize them for low-latency execution
• Help with internal audits, ensuring that Renegade maintains consistent state while being as flexible and expressive as possible

Benefits

Works in-person in downtown San Francisco, 6 days a week