Protocol Security Researcher

📋 Description

• Review significant protocol and smart contract changes before external audits or production
• Conduct attacker-driven security research across smart contracts, protocol mechanisms
• Participate in architecture and design discussions early enough to influence security-critical
• Investigate risks across adjacent systems, including assets, bridges, oracles, adapters, and other
• Analyze potential protocol-level failure modes and translate technical concerns into concrete
• Develop and contribute to AI-assisted security tooling, while evaluating its effectiveness in

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant security experience, with a strong background in smart contract and protocol
• Demonstrated ability to independently review complex codebases and reason deeply about
• Strong adversarial mindset, with the ability to move from identifying suspicious behavior to
• Strong understanding of decentralized finance mechanisms, including lending, liquidations
• Demonstrated use of AI to improve security research, review quality, analysis depth, or review
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain risks, impact

🎁 Benefits

• Remote-first working environment with flexibility across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
• Opportunity to work on complex smart contract, DeFi, and protocol security challenges with
• Broad scope to influence security architecture, research practices, tooling, and internal security
• Collaboration with experienced engineers, security researchers, monitoring specialists, incident
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of protocol security and emerging AI-assisted security
• Exposure to advanced decentralized finance infrastructure, including lending markets, governance