WHO ARE WE?

IOG, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.

You must possess a pragmatic mindset for building great systems, knowing how to balance features, compromise, technical debt and effort, in order to get products shipped whilst their market impact is high.

• Extract requirements from product and engineering regarding cryptographic primitives.
• Lead and contribute to novel cryptographic research meeting such requirements.
• Support prototyping of cryptographic systems.
• Translate research into rigorous engineering specifications & implementations.
• Meticulously review cryptographic protocols and proposed primitives.
• Write research papers for submission to top cryptologic conferences and journals.
• Contribute to peer-reviewed publications.
• Participate in weekly research meetings

As an Applied Cryptography Researcher, you must be a cryptographer with a strong understanding of practical aspects of using cryptography in real world settings. You have the exciting challenge of working on bleeding-edge research and technology, always with a focus on the market’s needs. You will work side by side with architects and engineers implementing novel cryptographic primitives that you may have also designed yourself. The scope is everything from Post-Quantum prototypes to hand-optimisation of existing primitives to completely new systems. To support you on this challenge, we have cryptography researchers, software architects, product managers, project managers, formal methods specialists and QA test engineers, with whom you will have high bandwidth communications.

You must possess a pragmatic mindset for building great systems, knowing how to balance features, compromise, technical debt and effort, in order to get products shipped whilst their market impact is high.

• Extract requirements from product and engineering regarding cryptographic primitives.
• Lead and contribute to novel cryptographic research meeting such requirements.
• Support prototyping of cryptographic systems.
• Translate research into rigorous engineering specifications & implementations.
• Meticulously review cryptographic protocols and proposed primitives.
• Write research papers for submission to top cryptologic conferences and journals.
• Contribute to peer-reviewed publications.
• Participate in weekly research meetings.