Security Researcher

Perform deep-dive security reviews of smart contracts, protocols, and blockchain infrastructure

Analyze protocol designs and identify attack surfaces across DeFi primitives, tokenomics, governance, MEV, bridges, and ZK systems

Work within a pod or as part of a curated team with other senior researchers

Provide actionable recommendations with clear technical and business impact assessments

Reproduce exploits, write POCs, and occasionally contribute patches

Publish post-mortems, technical articles, and internal reports as part of the knowledge-sharing culture

Experienced: You've worked on or audited complex smart contracts and are deeply familiar with Solidity, EVM behaviour, and common vulnerability classes (e.g., reentrancy, logic flaws, gas griefing, access control). Bonus if you have exposure to Move, Zk, Cairo, Rust, or low-level protocol implementations.

Curious and Relentless: You don’t stop at surface-level bugs. You model systems end-to-end and attack assumptions from first principles.

Collaborative: You enjoy working with other security researchers and protocol developers to ship secure products.

Detail-Oriented: You produce clear, concise, and rigorous technical writeups. Your GitHub issues or findings are actionable and professional.

Credible: You’ve either contributed to open source projects, published security research, performed audits, played CTFs, or made a name for yourself in the bug bounty world.

Decentralization-Aligned: You value open networks, cryptographic innovation, and building resilient systems.

Deep understanding of the EVM and Solidity

Experience auditing production smart contracts (solo or in teams)

Experience with cross-chain protocols, bridging, rollups, or ZK systems

Track record of high-impact bugs in bounties, audits, or competitions (e.g., Cantina, Paradigm CTF)

Familiarity with Ethereum security tooling: Foundry, Echidna, Slither, etc.

Experience writing or reviewing technical specs or protocol docs

Prior experience in formal audits (Spearbit, Zellic, Trail of Bits, etc.)

Familiar with the Cantina Platform

Lead reviewer experience or ability to manage a team of researchers

Contributions to open-source security tooling

Security publications, conference talks, or technical blog posts

Access to cutting-edge projects and deeply technical reviews

Compensation at the top end of the market

Collaboration with the best researchers + projects in the industry