About Allora Labs
Allora Labs' mission is to commoditize all forms of intelligence. Operating at the intelligence layer of the AI stack, we believe that building at the intersection of crypto and AI is the optimal path to achieving our mission.
As crypto-natives and ML experts with experience across leading Web3 projects, large finance companies, and large tech companies, our team combines deep blockchain knowledge with world-class technical capabilities. We’re backed by top crypto venture funds and angel investors who share our vision for the future of digital ownership.
We are looking for a protocol engineer to join our growing team responsible for both the design and development of upgrades to the Allora chain that improve upon its incentive mechanisms, optimize its capital and computational efficiencies, and generalize its application. You will join a flat, collaborative environment that emphasizes solving hard problems well and with haste.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing improvements and new features to Allora sourced from your own inspection, enterprising will to improve Allora, and from our best-in-class research team, with whom you will work closely. As mentioned, future directions include but are not limited to: improving upon its incentive mechanisms, optimizing Allora’s capital and computational efficiencies, and generalizing its application.
- Writing Go code that improves Allora by implementing ideas designed as above
- Preemptively assess all implications from every new decision made for the chain and every signal emitted by the chain. This includes but is not limited to economic, scalability, and usability concerns; anything that comprises an “end-to-end ownership” of the chain.
- Battling emergencies in our war room whenever key chain functionality has been impaired
- Collaborating with other teams to communicate chain functionality to maximize the value they can in turn offer others (e.g. to help inform how our indexing team should build new schemas for various applications)
- Participating in system architecture, protocol design, and decision-making to ensure security and minimize attack surface
- Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the Cosmos and broader crypto ecosystems, to always incorporate new best practices, techniques, and threat mitigations
Requirements
- 2+ years in an adversarial, blockchain environment writing production-grade, protocol-level code including core chain source code or smart contracts
- 4+ years writing production-grade, scalable Go
- Shape rotator; Can read and speak in math and abstractions
- Expert understanding of common crypto-economic primitives
- Previous experience at a crypto project that successfully navigated at least one, full cycle while actively battling typical adversarial forces inherent to crypto i.e. you worked at a noteworthy protocol
- Proactive, English-fluent communicator
- Fully immersed in, dedicated to, and bought-in to crypto
Nice to Have
- Experience building Cosmos SDK chains
- Can do their own DevOps
- Interest in Machine Learning
- Is a notable presence on CT
*This is a fully remote role*
Top Skills
What We Do
Allora Labs is an AI research and development lab focused on building Allora, a self-improving decentralized AI network.
Allora enables applications to leverage smarter, more secure AI through a self-improving network of ML models. By combining innovations in crowdsourced intelligence, collective learning, and end-to-end encrypted machine learning models, Allora unlocks a vast new design space of blockchain applications at the intersection of AI and crypto
