About Volt Capital

Volt Capital is a venture capital firm focused on elevating crypto founders who are reimagining our systems. Since its launch in 2021, Volt Capital has made 50+ investments in early-stage crypto companies and protocols like Nansen, Sound, Magic Eden, Cartridge, Squads, LayerZero, Magic and Coinshift.

Volt Capital is looking for a founding research engineer to join the firm in our New York office.

This individual will be working on high-level projects, research, portfolio support and ops within Volt Labs. This role is largely self-directed: we are looking for a self-starter who can contribute to a broad array of OSS projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and contribute to open source projects
• Develop internal initiatives and projects
• Collaborate with the investment team on research and its applications to prospective investment opportunities
• Research and publish work in relevant crypto verticals
• Evaluate (and sometimes produce) tech specs for protocol designs and instantiations
• Evaluate existing protocols and networks for security and performance
• Willingness to travel as necessary

Qualifications

• Strong, native understanding of distributed protocol design
• Ability to identify mechanism design problems and propose solutions
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a software engineering role
• 2+ years of experience working in crypto
• 12+ months of research engineering experience at an investment firm
• An analytical mindset, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills

Nice-to-Haves

• Background in game theory