About Us

Lido is a liquid staking protocol backed by industry-leading staking providers that supports staking for Ethereum. Lido lets users stake their tokens - without locking tokens or maintaining infrastructure - whilst participating in on-chain activities, e.g. lending, farming and more.

Lido is on a mission to make staking simple and decentralized, whilst opening up staking to as many people as possible.

About the Role

This role is for a technical partner to the Lido on Ethereum research lead. You'll be responsible for the technical part of Ethereum research arm.

Responsibilities

• Participate in protocol discussions at the frontier of both Ethereum and Lido research – e.g. FOCIL vs multiple concurrent proposers – understand the impacts of these discussions on Lido, and be able to propose and effectively communicate alternative options and/or improvements
• Monitor suggested changes to the Ethereum protocol closely and analyze their impact – on the chain as a whole and on the Lido protocol specifically
• Develop recommendations for modifications to the Lido protocol based on changes to Ethereum – and vice versa
• Propose EIPs, review EIP drafts, track related discussions, and provide the dev team with regular updates on what's happening

Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in crypto
• Strong research background
• In-depth understanding of Ethereum protocol mechanics
• Regular user of decentralized applications and protocols
• Experience navigating and participating in open source development discussions

Ethereum Internals

• Proficient in one or more programming languages
• Familiarity with Solidity, EVM, EIPs
• Ability to read and analyze smart contracts

Research Skills

• Ability to conduct detailed technical and economic analysis of protocol improvement proposals
• Ability to provide clear and well-founded recommendations for suggested protocol changes
• Ability to analyze and interpret ethereum-derived data

Nice to Have

Experience writing and submitting Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) and/or contributing to ethresear.ch posts is an advantage but not a requirement.