Category Labs

• You’ll design and evaluate mechanisms that optimize for economic security, decentralization, performance, compatibility with existing infrastructure, and ease of use. • You’ll evaluate potential attack vectors and evaluate ways to mitigate the threat of attacks. • You’ll advise the team on technical merits of other systems that are potential partners, such as bridges and DeFi protocols. • You’ll stay up to date on mechanism design in other blockchains and develop opinions on various practices • You’ll collaborate with our engineering team to design and test new mechanism options. • You’ll write about your findings for both internal and public audiences.

• Designing performant algorithms and architectures related to storage or recovery, in single-node or distributed environments. • Researching new architectures

Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team. The Role Category Labs is looking for a Smart Contract Engineer to join the core engineering team to build at the application layer. The work can range from direct collaboration with external app and infrastructure teams to design and implementation of new primitives enabled by a high-performance EVM client. You will be part of a small, high-functioning team in a fast-paced startup environment. What You Will Do You’ll implement smart contracts that are well suited to the resources and throughput enabled by the Monad client built by Category Labs You’ll identify needs in the app developer ecosystem and address them through close collaboration with the core engineering team You’ll work directly with external application or infrastructure teams to unblock them with deep understanding of their domain AND the Category Labs client Who You Are Compensation . You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package. Resources and growth. We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot and grow as our company scales. Salary and benefits Minimum full-time salary of $200,000.  (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, domain expertise, and geographic location.) Benefits for US employees include: World class benefits package (medical/dental/vision) Unlimited paid time off 401(k) retirement plan + company match Lunch and dinner stipend (in-office NYC) Monthly wellness benefit Paid parental leave Benefits for employees hired through an EOR (outside of the US) will be based on EOR offerings and country-specific requirements.