As a Smart Contract Engineer at Analog, you design and implement next-generation protocol primitives that enable machine-verifiable commitments, state attestations, and autonomous coordination across decentralized environments. This role sits at the intersection of protocol research and systems engineering, contributing to the foundations of next-generation physical intelligence systems where digital protocols coordinate and verify actions across real-world environments.
What you'll do
- Design cryptoeconomic systems enabling verifiable commitments and programmable state transitions
- Research identity, attestation, and reputation primitives within decentralized environments
- Develop mechanisms for secure cross-network coordination and trust minimization
- Formalize security assumptions and adversarial models for protocol components
- Prototype and benchmark new consensus or validation schemes
- Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize research outputs
- Author technical specifications and research documentation
- Contribute to audits and formal security reviews
- Engage with the broader research community, including opportunities to contribute to publications, open-source research, and intellectual property
What you bring
- A strong foundation in distributed systems, cryptography, or applied mathematics
- Experience designing blockchain or decentralized protocol mechanisms
- Deep understanding of consensus systems and cryptoeconomic incentives
- Familiarity with digital identity, attestation systems, or verifiable data models
- Proficiency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages
- Ability to move from theoretical design to implementation
Nice to have
- Experience with zero-knowledge systems or verifiable computation
- Knowledge of decentralized identity (DID) or credential frameworks
- Background in mechanism design or formal protocol modelling
- Experience contributing to L1/L2 or interoperability protocols
- Published research or open-source protocol contributions
What we offer
- A collaborative, globally minded team building the future of physical intelligence
- The opportunity to work on projects with national and global significance, from adaptive cities and resilient infrastructure to next generation sports, entertainment, healthcare, and energy
- Outstanding opportunities for learning and career development, collaborating with leaders across AI, robotics, mixed reality, and systems engineering
- A competitive compensation package with healthcare, education support, and generous leave benefits
About Analog
Analog is pioneering the era of physical intelligence, transforming cities to be more adaptive, industries more resilient, and services more human centered. At the heart of their approach are living world models continuously enriched by every capture point, device, and interaction, within which resides Ana, the Analog Neural Agent.