Senior Smart Contract Security Researcher

About the role

You will map who really controls a protocol: which keys can move, freeze, or mint funds, and how exposed that leaves the people who hold the assets. Your analysis becomes the rating institutions read before they allocate.

Responsibilities

• Trace every privileged function in a protocol and attribute the on-chain power behind it.
• Turn raw permission data into clear, comparable security and relevance scores.
• Back-test the methodology against real exploits and tighten it where it misses.
• Write the plain-language verdicts that sit on top of each evaluation.

Requirements

• Deep familiarity with EVM smart contracts and common proxy, access-control, and upgrade patterns.
• A track record of reading unfamiliar contracts and explaining how they can fail.
• Comfort with on-chain data tooling and reproducible, evidence-backed analysis.
• Clear writing: you can state a risk in one sentence and prove it in the next.

Nice to have

• Audit, security research, or protocol engineering experience.
• Published exploit analyses or contributions to security tooling.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $185K to $245K, based on experience, plus equity and benefits.