At Nexus Labs, we are on a mission to make blockchains maximally useful. To do so, we are building Nexus, the first general-purpose zero-knowledge cloud computing network, designed to scale Ethereum applications with stateless verifiable off-chain compute.

Nexus originated at Stanford University, and is backed by a suite of world-class investors including Dragonfly, Alliance, SV Angel and others. We believe in Ethereum’s values and cherish freedom, ownership, and meritocracy.

We are looking for great scientists and engineers excited about the future of verifiable computing and the Ethereum ecosystem to join our team.

Help design and build the Nexus Network and the Nexus Virtual Machine.

Help design and build the Nexus Zero network and the Nexus Zero zkVM.

Contribute high-quality, well-tested and well-documented code.

A PhD in mathematics, cryptography or theoretical computer science.

Research / publication record in general cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, threshold signatures, or other advanced theoretical computer science topics.

OR - Research / publication record in distributed systems, randomness beacons, VRFs, large-scale consensus, consensus on a DAG, blockchain scaling, etc.

You are passionate about decentralized computing, including blockchain scaling, cross-chain communication, modular blockchain architectures, decentralized oracle networks, optimistic rollups and zk-rollups.

You are a self-starter and take high ownership and responsibility of your own work.

You love working in Rust.

You are familiar with the technical architectures of the following great projects and can discuss them at length: Ethereum, Cosmos, StarkNet, Filecoin, Nomad, Axelar, Chainlink, Celestia, IPFS, Arbitrum, Optimism, Near, Polkadot.

Flexible, autonomous work environment

Flexible location: Stanford / Palo Alto (we will help cover moving costs) and/or remote

Token compensation, in addition to salary