Compensation

Competitive

Remote within

Timezones

GMT (-5/+4 hours)

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Cryptography
Scala
Prototyping
Documentation
Blockchain
Rust
operation research
Research
Haskell
security research
Technical Writing

Benefits & perks

Paid sick days
Pension
Promote from within
Committed to a diverse team
Performance bonus
100% remote working
Paid time off
Tokens
Learning & development
Health insurance - us employees
Healthcare stipend - uk & ireland employees
No call fridays
Company meetups

IO Global is searching for a Senior Intelligence Engineer to join our Technical Intelligence team.

Role overview

IO Global is searching for a Senior Blockchain Researcher to join our Technical Intelligence team. The team's main function is to recon our industry and contribute to the most promising projects to feed the company with new trends and projects that the team considers worth developing a strategy on or establishing a partnership with.

As Senior Blockchain Researcher, you will conduct technical research and analysis to gather intelligence from the industry as a whole or specific projects of interest. You will use your scientific, software design, and coding capabilities to cover the wide breadth of the blockchain ecosystem and the depth and intricacies of technical designs. You will aggregate research outputs into due diligence reports or knowledge bases and contribute to setting up an automated system for intelligence gathering.

In this role, you will work closely with the Director of Technical Intelligence to refine the Technical Intelligence strategy. You will also partner with the Engineering, Research, Strategy, and Product divisions.

Your mission

Compile state-of-the-art knowledge of the blockchain field (eg, Networks, DeFi, NFT, Infrastructure) by identifying, categorizing, and evaluating technical trade-offs and trends
Deep dive into source code repositories (programming language and stack agnostic) to evaluate the quality and pertinence of technical stack and architectural choices
Review white papers and scientific research papers, technical documentation, and support forums to gather technical due diligence knowledge for projects in the blockchain ecosystem
Analyze and write quick-shot technical due diligence reports in less than one week for the CEO Office, CTO Office, and other divisions
Leverage blockchain-domain expert knowledge to fine-tune automatic data pipelines for intelligence gathering
Vulgarize complex technical subjects for partner business-oriented teams
Aggregate knowledge in industry reports that the company could commercialize
Join and contribute to a dozen relevant blockchain ecosystems each year.

Requirements

Your expertise

BSc or MSc in computer science is preferred but not mandatory
5+ years of experience in computing, with various programming languages and architectures
3+ years in the crypto/blockchain industry
A proven track of writing and publishing (reports, papers, etc.)
Professional English.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position.

All Colleagues

Flexible schedule
Remote work - ability to work anywhere
Laptop reimbursement
New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
Learning & Development Opportunities
Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan

US Employees

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits coverage through Anthem with 100% premium cost covered by IO Global for the employee and dependents
Health Savings Account
Life Insurance

UK Employees

Monthly Health Stipend to use towards any wellness or medical coverage/service
Pension

IOHK

250+
Singapore

Founded in 2015, IO Global is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform. We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients. Our goal is simple – to fuel our drive to be best in class by giving you the opportunity, resources and support to deliver your finest work to date. You’ll work with some exceptionally talented and friendly individuals who are always open to new ideas and ways of working. IO Global is an advocate of decentralized remote working, with more than 700 people working in more than 60 countries. Everyone has a different skill set, a different culture, and is at a different stage in their life. We aim to make collaboration between diverse people fun, exciting, and always rewarding. Many companies say they ‘think outside the box’ – for IO Global it’s more, ‘we think outside the geography’.