AI Infrastructure Engineer

About Near One:

Near One engineering team is supporting development of the infrastructure of Layer 1 Blockchain, NEAR Protocol. The focus is on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to actualize visions of NEAR Protocol.

We are growing our team and looking for a software engineer with experience building and maintaining cryptography projects. As the in-house expert on cryptography, you will initiate, implement, and lead a variety of projects in this area, including integrating the results of the research done by teams in the Near community into NEAR Protocol. Your work will have a major impact on the scalability and decentralization of NEAR Protocol.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Contribute to the design of a decentralized inference network consisting of different hardware providers.
• Design and implement private and confidential inference based on Trust Execution Environment.
• Performance optimizations of model inference

What We’re Looking For:

• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• Strong experience with distributed systems.
• Agility to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code.
• Meticulousness to lay out priorities and methodically make progress towards the goal.
• Good communication skills to convey your ideas and discuss with team members for technical challenges.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

We’d Love If You Have:

• Professional experience with Rust.
• Experience with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).
• Experience with blockchain protocols.