Senior Protocol Engineer
Cournot · Remote · Mid
About the role
- Design and build end-to-end oracle pipelines across: - data ingestion - semantic interpretation - evidence collection - AI reasoning - verification - onchain output - Build protocol mechanisms for: - decentralized verification - challenges and disputes - proof publication - fault handling - Work on reproducible and verifiable AI execution, including opML-style verification and controlled inference environments. - Build high-performance infrastructure for real-time event monitoring and low-latency oracle delivery. - Design resilient multi-source data systems, including: - source aggregation - normalization - anomaly detection - conflict handling - fallback mechanisms - Develop and maintain EVM smart contracts supporting oracle outputs, verification, disputes, and settlement. - Contribute to Cournot’s Intelligence Oracle and Agentic Oracle architecture. - Build infrastructure that enables agents to continuously monitor conditions, evaluate evidence, and trigger actions within predefined policy boundaries. - Collaborate on economic and incentive mechanisms for: - oracle nodes - verifiers - challengers - skill providers - Work closely with product, research, and engineering teams to translate protocol concepts into production systems. - Review architecture, security assumptions, and failure modes across the protocol stack.
Requirements
- Min. 4+ years of experience in distributed systems, blockchain protocols, backend infrastructure, or systems engineering. - Strong proficiency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages. - Hands-on experience with EVM smart contracts and blockchain infrastructure. - Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts such as: - consensus - fault tolerance - networking - state machines - deterministic execution - Experience designing or operating high-availability backend or protocol infrastructure. - Ability to reason clearly about protocol security, trust assumptions, and adversarial environments. - Comfortable working across protocol design, systems engineering, and applied research. - Strong ability to independently own complex technical problems from architecture through implementation.