Open positions at Harmony
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2 min readJul 27, 2018
At Harmony, we recently raised a $18M seed round. As an early team, we hire for exceptional talent rather than for specific roles. Below is a sample of our 2018 roadmap to yearn for. (Here are our interview questions on culture and values: empathy, passion, and excellence).
- Scale Omniledger to 100k-tps/100k-node testnet with 1-sec latency
- Simulate and defend against attacks and security models
- Develop Rust 244-core demo on Bitcoin historical data
- Validate Google QUIC saturated at 10Gbps
- Fully open source; engage community for development and benchmarks
- Sharding smart contracts, Proof of Bandwidth, attacks & security
- Consensus protocols, location oracles, locality & topology, trusted hardware
- Token economics, anti-pool mining, auction-based fees, governance
- Annual publication to top conference: IEEE S&P, ACM CSS, USENIX Security
- Build a team of about 5 researchers and external academic collaborations
2 community strategists / evangelists
- Weekly blog posts / podcasts for 1000, weekly meetup on technical for 20
- Manage 100k followers from reddit / telegram / wechat / youtube
- Comparables (EOS, ZIL, Thunder), 100-page whitepaper in en/cn/es/fr
- Engage 500 developers, quarterly hackathon / conference for 200
1 corporate development / general fund partner
- Raise / manage a new $?M fund for our application ecosystem
- 3 exchange partners, 10 marketing partners across 5 regions, market maker
- $?M initial private sale and $?M final sale with auction on lockup period
1 project manager / market research
- Demos: basic functions (payments, 1MB tx storage), games (cryptokitties, turn-based, Pokémon), user tractions (casino, exchanges, news, chat), our expertise (local voting, decentralized maps, ai data marketplace)
- Features: topology routing, location oracles, privacy-preserving computation
- Neurohealth (Health Data + AI marketplace on Harmony) for 100k users
1 hiring manager: Hire 20 engineers and 5 marketing / operations
1 office manager: Organize 2 investment / promotion tours for 4 people to 5 cities
Apply to Stephen Tse <s@harmony.one> or our Lever page. Our office is near Apple headquarters in Cupertino.
