Protocol Engineer (Cosmos + EVM + Oracles)

FirstBatch

FirstBatch

United States
Posted on Oct 9, 2025

Who We Are

We aim to make advanced AI accessible, collaborative, and evolutionary.

About Dria (What you’ll Build)

An EVM‑compatible Layer‑1 purpose‑built to orchestrate decentralized, multi‑agent AI systems. The chain runs on‑chain modules that coordinate off‑chain execution by a permissionless network of nodes (oracle/DON pattern), with verifiable inference and cryptographic attestations.

Role Summary

Own the protocol that turns the design into a production Layer‑1: build Cosmos SDK modules, integrate EVM tooling, wire up oracle/off‑chain services with verifiable proofs, implement storage connectors, and ship the incentives/governance that make the network sustainable.

What you’ll do

1- Protocol & Modules

  • Design and implement Cosmos SDK/ABCI modules for Inference, Evaluation, and Sampling, including task creation/fulfillment, eventing, and state machines aligned to the two‑step task model.
  • Implement EVM compatibility (e.g., Ethermint/EVMOS stack) and protocol precompiles for task escrow and verifier utilities noted in the evolution loop.

2- Oracles & Off‑chain

  • Stand up the oracle/DON workflow for executing LLM inference, evaluations, and sampling off‑chain; support majority‑vote evaluation and verifier attestations; derive deterministic randomness from block data.

3- Interoperability & Tooling

  • Deliver IBC connections to other zones; build relayer/runbooks.
  • Provide CLI/RPC/indexing, testnets, observability, and incident response.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years building blockchain protocols or high‑throughput distributed systems; 2+ years with Cosmos SDK/CometBFT and EVM internals.
  • Strong Go (Cosmos SDK/ABCI) and Rust and/or Solidity; proven delivery of production chain code.
  • Hands‑on with Oracle/DON architectures and off‑chain compute pipelines
  • IBC and cross‑chain patterns; familiarity with relayers and light clients (§3.1). dria_whitepaper
  • Security mindset for consensus‑critical code

Nice to Have

  • LLM/ML infra exposure
  • Experience with ABCI++, CometBFT internals, and EVM precompiles.
  • Token‑economic implementation experience (treasury, burns, emissions, retroactive rewards with audits/handicaps)

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary + tokens, remote‑first, hardware/compute stipend, conference travel, open‑source contribution time.