Zellic is hiring Research Engineers. We’re looking for individuals with exceptional talent in fundamental or applied research, paired with deep expertise in security (vulnerability research, web security, cryptography, or reverse engineering).
About Us
Zellic is the leading blockchain security firm. Our clients include major crypto companies, including the Solana Foundation, Starkware, Succinct, LayerZero, Sui Foundation, Hyperliquid, Aptos Labs, Scroll, Osmosis, and more.
We’re profitable with over 70 employees (mostly CTF players), growing slowly and steadily.
We're Looking For
As a Research Engineer at Zellic, you will work on our proprietary security tooling. We’re looking for security researchers who are also excellent engineers and problem solvers.
Responsibilities
- This is a research role. You will come up with new, original ideas that improve upon the state of the art and prove their efficacy through experimentation.
- Develop solutions to security-related problems using large language models
- Take solutions from prototype to ready for production use
- This role will not require front-end (webdev) or design skills. This is a pure R&D role.
Qualifications
Research experience
We’re interested in candidates with experiences like the following:
- Industry research experience developing solutions to novel problems, or equivalent academic research background in CS, Math, or similar STEM field
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, and the ability to quickly build prototypes from scratch up to production deployment
- Experience working with and developing solutions using large language models (LLMs)
- Data science skills and the ability to optimize against existing benchmarks, as well as create new high-quality benchmarks when needed
- Strong “research taste” is crucial. You will be expected to work in a self-directed fashion.
General background