Protocol Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will accelerate the protocol roadmap by working across research, mechanism design, Solidity implementation, formal verification, and audit cycles. You will research and design new lending mechanisms, liquidation strategies, and oracle integrations, then prototype and validate them before full implementation. You will write and review production Solidity code with a focus on correctness, gas efficiency, and simplicity. You will lead medium-to-large protocol initiatives end-to-end, identify attack vectors and edge cases, and collaborate on architecture decisions. You will review research and literature, and contribute adversarial thinking to prevent failures before they reach production.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a quantitative field (Math Computer Science Physics Statistics Economics) or equivalent depth of knowledge
- 5+ years of experience in software architectural design and implementation of complex systems
- 2+ years of experience in blockchain R&D with a strong track record in protocol design and implementation
- Excellent abstraction capacity able to quickly understand complex mechanisms and distil them to their essentials
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical ideas concisely
- A good theoretician with a practical sense able to design elegant systems and ship fast making pragmatic trade-offs
- Comfort operating in fast-changing ambiguous contexts where the playbook doesn't exist yet
- Strong ownership and autonomy
- Creativity and critical thinking able to challenge designs and propose novel solutions
- Team-first mindset low ego genuine curiosity about DeFi and the problems Morpho is solving
- Humble
Responsibilities
- Research and design new lending mechanisms liquidation strategies and oracle integrations to ship production-ready improvements
- Write and review production Solidity code prioritising correctness gas efficiency and simplicity
- Lead medium-to-large protocol initiatives end-to-end from research through design implementation and deployment
- Think adversarially about protocol design identifying attack vectors edge cases and failure modes
- Prototype new protocol ideas using formal analysis simulation or verification to validate mechanism design
- Collaborate cross-functionally on architecture decisions to keep the protocol stack coherent and minimal
- Review the team's research and conduct literature reviews to bring external insights
Benefits
- MORPHO token grants
- Relocation support for candidates moving to Paris
- Health coverage
- Flexible work arrangements
- Periodic time together in Paris