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.
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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.
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About the Role
Design and implement high-performance systems components for Nexus's DEX engine and Layer 1 protocol runtime, optimizing execution paths, concurrency, memory, I/O, determinism, and throughput.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Rust, C++, Go, or other systems programming languages
- 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 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 for determinism and throughput
- Contribute to execution abstractions for the protocol layer
- Work with protocol engineers on 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 others for senior or principal candidates