Full-Time
Software Engineer
Layer 1
Posted on 3/30/2025
Nexus
Layer-1 blockchain with zkVM proofs
No salary listed
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
This is a hybrid role, requiring in-person presence with the rest of the Nexus team.
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- Experience building Layer 1 blockchains or deep expertise in distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Rust, Golang, or equivalent.
- Strong passion for consensus protocols, ZK, and cryptography.
- Open-source contributions and a desire to work in an open, transparent environment.
- Embrace AI as a core part of how you work, think, and build.
- Work alongside the research team on protocol design, ensuring security, scalability, and liveness.
- Implement and maintain the blockchain client software (e.g., Rust, Golang).
- Manage blockchain artifacts, including RPC endpoints, explorers, faucets, and financial integrations.
- Integrate zkVM and verifiable compute R&D into the chain (e.g., Rust).
- Write and audit smart contracts in Solidity, ensuring security best practices.
- Collaborate with Nexus partners to build and expand the ecosystem.
- Advanced degree in a technical field.
- Experience with programming competitions or math Olympiads.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to spearhead new projects.
- Experience with zero-knowledge proofs and zkVM concepts.
Nexus Laboratories builds a planetary-scale, cryptographically verifiable supercomputer powered by a Layer 1 blockchain and the Nexus zkVM, a zero-knowledge virtual machine. Computations run inside the Nexus VM and produce cryptographic proofs of correctness via the Nexus Proof System, which are anchored on the blockchain. The zkVM is modular, open-source, written in Rust, and highly parallelized to handle large workloads while preserving data privacy where needed. The goal is a Verifiable Internet where actions like AI tasks and identity checks can be proven trustworthy without exposing underlying data.
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Total Funding
$34.4M
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San Francisco, California
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Nexus testnet activated for 2.1M users, targeting Q1 2026 mainnet launch.
- Nexus raised $25M Series A in June 2024 from Lightspeed and Pantera Capital.
- Nexus partners with Vishwa and PlaysOut to expand AI economy and onchain games.
What critics are saying
- Risc Zero's zkVM proves 18x faster, eroding Nexus developer adoption by Q1 2026.
- Succinct Labs' SP1 zkVM with $55M funding dominates Rust proofs in 12 months.
- Celestia integrates Risc Zero zkVMs, bypassing Nexus L1 by April 2026.
What makes Nexus unique
- Nexus builds Layer 1 blockchain as planetary-scale verifiable supercomputer using zkVM.
- Nexus zkVM proves any computation with modular, Rust-based, parallelized design.
- Nexus enables Verifiable Internet for AI agents and identity via cryptographic proofs.
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