Systems Engineer
Nexus is developing a Layer 1 blockchain designed to function as a 'world supercomputer' for the AI era. By leveraging a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM), Nexus aims to provide a high-performance, scalable, and verifiable compute platform. Users can contribute their device's idle compute power to the network and earn rewards, facilitating mass adoption. The project is focused on building infrastructure for autonomous applications and agentic intelligence.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Funding history
Investors
Projects
About Nexus Laboratories, Inc.
Nexus is a technology company building infrastructure for the AI era. Their core products include the Nexus Layer 1, a 100% EVM-compatible blockchain designed to function as a world supercomputer by concentrating global compute power. This is powered by the Nexus zkVM, a general-purpose virtual machine that enables fast, verifiable compute at a large scale, compatible with languages like Rust, Go, and C++. Nexus also operates the Nexus Verifiable AI Lab, an R&D division focused on the intersection of AI and zero-knowledge proofs, exploring areas like verifiable AI, AI for verification, economic AI agents, and AI-driven economic systems. They encourage participation through their Testnet, where users can contribute their device's idle compute power to earn rewards and help build the network. Nexus targets developers, researchers, validators, and collaborators looking to build autonomous applications and agentic intelligence on their platform.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and implement performance-critical components for a decentralized exchange engine and protocol runtime using Rust C++ or Go. You will build low-latency pipelines for order execution event propagation and state updates while optimizing concurrency scheduling memory layout and I/O paths. You will investigate bottlenecks through profiling tracing and benchmarking and help establish standards for reliable correct and high-assurance distributed execution. Depending on your experience you may also influence system architecture and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Rust C++ Go or another systems programming language
- Understanding of high-performance or distributed systems
- Ability to reason about execution flows concurrency models resource lifecycles and system invariants
- Practical experience profiling CPU memory and synchronization overhead
- Comfort working with critical performance determinism and resilience constraints
- Excellent spoken and written Business English
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance components in Rust C++ or Go
- Build low-latency pipelines for order execution event propagation and state updates
- Optimize concurrency scheduling memory layout and I/O paths
- Contribute to execution abstractions that may become protocol primitives
- Ensure safety composability and consensus compatibility
- Investigate performance bottlenecks using profiling tracing and benchmarking
- Define standards for reliability correctness and high-assurance distributed execution
- Drive system design decisions and mentor engineers as a senior or principal candidate
Benefits
- Remote work
