Research and design new lending mechanisms, liquidation strategies, and oracle integrations with the protocol team to ship production-ready improvements that extend Morpho's capabilities.
Write and review production Solidity code for smart contracts securing significant TVL, prioritising correctness, gas efficiency, and simplicity.
Lead medium-to-large protocol initiatives end-to-end, from research through design, implementation, and deployment, potentially coordinating across multiple teams.
Think adversarially about protocol design, identifying attack vectors, edge cases, and failure modes before they reach production.
Prototype new protocol ideas using formal analysis, simulation, or verification to validate mechanism design before committing to full implementation.
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and leadership on architecture decisions to keep Morpho's protocol stack coherent and minimal.
Review the team's research and conduct literature reviews to bring external insights and challenge existing designs with fresh perspectives.

Master's degree in a quantitative field (Math, Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, Economics) or equivalent depth of knowledge.
5+ years of experience in software architectural design and implementation of complex systems.
2+ years of experience in blockchain R&D, with a strong track record in protocol design and implementation.
Excellent abstraction capacity: able to quickly understand complex mechanisms and distil them to their essentials.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas concisely and contribute productively to fast-paced research discussions.
A good theoretician with a practical sense: you can design elegant systems but you also ship fast and make pragmatic trade-offs.
Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous contexts where the playbook doesn't exist yet.
Strong ownership and autonomy, you don't wait to be told what to do next.
Creativity and critical thinking: able to challenge designs and propose novel solutions, not just execute.
Team-first mindset, low ego, genuine curiosity about DeFi and the problems Morpho is solving.
Humble.

Protocol Engineer

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