Smart Contract Engineer

About the Company

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining core smart contract frameworks and libraries
• Managing smart-contract release lifecycles from architecting to audit to post-release
• Spearheading research into novel smart contract functionality beyond the EVM
• Collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, researchers, product managers, and operations teammates

Requirements

• General mastery of software engineering principles
• Strong proficiency in Solidity and at least one other non-smart-contract language
• Deep understanding of the EVM and differences across L1/L2/L3 environments
• Familiarity with network node architectures (geth, reth, op-stack, orbit, etc.)
• Experience participating in past smart contract code audits
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities with emphasis on written communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with alternative, non-EVM-based execution environments
• Past experience in contributing to or maintaining open-source projects

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package including annual discretionary bonus
• 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
• Aggressive company 401k match
• Participation in virtual and in-person events