Join us as we accelerate the ZK revolution by supporting web3 networks with reliable and cost-efficient proof generation. We’re a high-performance cryptography startup (with an exciting hardware twist) looking for a talented Senior Technical Recruiter. A much more technical description of what we do is below!

NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of in-house full life cycle recruiting experience, with 5+ years of technical recruiting
• Previous experience at an early stage/high growth company implementing talent acquisition strategies from scratch
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting outstanding diverse technical talent into top-tier engineering organizations
• Understanding of global compensation strategies
• Experience recruiting talent across the US and Europe, and a high level understanding of employment laws associated with global hiring

ABOUT US (DEEP DIVE):

We’re building out a high-performance, cost-efficient compute stack for advanced cryptographic proofs, specifically zk-SNARKs. Verifiable computing with zk-SNARKs is taking off as a solution to the scalability and privacy limitations that today’s blockchains suffer from. A new wave of blockchain protocols that use zk-SNARKs to prove smart contract executions, such as Polygon zkEVM, Starknet, and zkSync, are already in production. We believe there is a big market opportunity to generate proofs for these networks at scale in a cost-effective way [1]. There are lots of interesting performance engineering challenges we need to solve to keep up with the maximum device throughput.
We take the approach of co-designing hardware and software systems to accelerate SNARK generation end-to-end. Our first-generation tech stack uses FPGA accelerators running custom digital logic tailor-made for our use case [2].
We also conduct cryptography research to identify computationally efficient algorithms for verifiable computing. These research efforts produced a novel cryptographic construction based on towers of binary fields called Binius [3] [4], which we are currently developing into a production-grade system.
Our team has cross-domain expertise and includes hardware designers, low-level systems software engineers, cryptography engineers, and data center specialists, several of whom worked in HFT previously.
[1] https://www.paradigm.xyz/2022/04/zk-hardware
[2] https://www.ulvetanna.io/news/fpga-architecture-for-goldilocks-ntt
[3] https://www.ulvetanna.io/news/binius-hardware-optimized-snark
[4] https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-explains-binius-improve-zero-knowledge-proofs
[5] https://www.ulvetanna.io/news/introducing-ulvetanna

We are looking for a dynamic, bright, and organized self-starter with a passion for talent acquisition to join our team as a Technical Recruiter located in Berlin, Germany. We’re looking for someone who can both partner deeply with our co-founders on forward thinking talent strategy, in addition to rolling their sleeves up and leveling up the operational aspects of the function.

This person is a systems thinker, with the mindset necessary to create order from ambiguity, while fostering a deep sense of partnership and collaboration across the Org, and with candidates, along the way. Over time, leadership will look to you to build out the function in a deeper way - think talent mapping, internal talent movement, compensation, etc.

• Set up and run end-to-end best-in-class deep recruitment processes, gaining a deep understanding of different technical nuances of each role
• Infuse recruiting best practices throughout the organization - interview training, meeting 1:1 with Engineers, running debrief sessions, iterating
• Create an amazing candidate experience, while ensuring candidates gain a deep understanding of our culture and operating principles
• Partner and manage external agencies
• Develop an understanding of the candidate market, continually learning and building strong networks of potential candidates