### About Ritual Ritual is building a sovereign layer for AI. Our first phase, Infernet, is the first product of its kind to enable developers to access models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain. Our next phase, the Ritual chain, will be a sovereign layer custom-built to support AI-native operations and enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. #### About the role We are looking for an experienced smart contract engineer to join our team to help build and maintain our open-source smart contract libraries and frameworks. Working closely with product, engineering, and research, you will play a critical role in architecting and implementing the core protocol, useful libraries and tooling, and adjacent prototypes. We are a lean and agile organization. The ideal candidate thrives in autonomous environments, has a mastery of smart-contract engineering, and enjoys building new products from scratch. * Building and maintaining core smart contract frameworks and libraries * Managing smart-contract release lifecycles; from architecting to audit to post-release * Spearheading research into novel smart contract functionality beyond the EVM * Collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, researchers, product managers, and operations teammates to create best-in-class products #### About you * General mastery of software engineering principles * Strong proficiency in Solidity and at least one other non-smart-contract language * Deep understanding of the EVM and differences across L1/L2/L3 environments * Familiarity with network node architectures (geth, reth, op-stack, orbit, etc.) * Experience participating in past smart contract code audits (maintainer or auditor) * Desire to dive in at the lowest level; experience to know when not to * Strong communication and collaboration abilities; emphasis on written communication ##### Extras * Experience with alternative, non-EVM-based execution environments * Past experience in contributing to or maintaining open-source projects #### Why join us * Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure * Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups * Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space * 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare * Aggressive company 401k match * Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you! * Participate in virtual and in-person events * Much much more!