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Come join Irreducible as we accelerate the ZK revolution by supporting web3 networks with reliable and cost-efficient proof generation. We’re a high-performance cryptography startup (with an exciting hardware twist) looking for a talented Principal Recruiter to lead and build out our recruiting function. A much more technical description of what we do is below!

About the role:

We are looking for a dynamic, bright, and organized self-starter with a passion for talent acquisition and building 0 → 1 to join our team as our first Principal Recruiter. We’re looking for someone who can both partner deeply with our co-founders on forward thinking talent strategy, in addition to rolling their sleeves up and leveling up the operational aspects of the function.

This person is a systems thinker, with the mindset necessary to create order from ambiguity, while fostering a deep sense of partnership and collaboration across the Org, and with candidates, along the way. Over time, leadership will look to you to build out the function in a deeper way - think growing the recruiting team, talent mapping, internal talent movement, compensation, etc.

• Set up and run end-to-end best-in-class deep recruitment processes, gaining a deep understanding of different technical nuances of each role
• Enfuse recruiting best practices throughout the organization - interview training, meeting 1:1 with Engineers, running debrief sessions, iterating
• Create an amazing candidate experience, while ensuring candidates gain a deep understanding of our culture and operating principles
• Partner and manage external agencies
• Develop an understanding of the candidate market, continually learning and building strong networks of potential candidates

About you:

• A collaborative, thoughtful talent partner who sees the big picture, and is comfortable getting into the details (can operationalize a strategy)
• Comfortable with open communication and giving and receiving open, constructive feedback respectfully
• Solutions oriented mindset - not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get involved in all aspects of the role - no job too big or too small
• Genuine curiosity and strong desire to continuously learn, grow and develop others
• Proven ability to think creatively, participate fully and work collaboratively to develop and execute programs
• Strong analytical skills and uses data to influence decision making
• Impeccable judgment and integrity, and ability to balance the needs of the company, managers and employees
• Adaptable to change

Locations supported:

We’re looking for candidates who are located between the USA East Coast and Central Europe time zones only. Although we’re a globally distributed company, ensuring the team works in cohesive time zones is essential to our goals. Additionally, the company plans to get together ~one week per quarter in either New York City or Europe.

Necessary Qualifications:

• 10+ years of in-house full life cycle recruiting experience, with 5+ years of technical recruiting
• Previous experience at an early stage/high growth startup implementing talent acquisition strategies from scratch
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting outstanding diverse technical talent into top-tier engineering organizations
• Understanding of global compensation strategies
• Experience working in a fully remote/remote-first environment
• Experience recruiting talent across the US and Europe, and a high level understanding of employment laws associated with global hiring
• Either experience or a “front row seat” to other People functions such as People Operations, HRBP work, and global compensation

About us (deep dive):

We're building out a high-performance, cost-efficient compute stack for advanced cryptographic proofs, specifically zk-SNARKs. Verifiable computing with zk-SNARKs is taking off as a solution to the scalability and privacy limitations that today's blockchains suffer from. A new wave of blockchain protocols that use zk-SNARKs to prove smart contract executions, such as Polygon zkEVM, Starknet, and zkSync, are already in production. We believe there is a big market opportunity to generate proofs for these networks at scale in a cost-effective way [1]. There are lots of interesting performance engineering challenges we need to solve to keep up with the maximum device throughput.

We take the approach of co-designing hardware and software systems to accelerate SNARK generation end-to-end. Our first-generation tech stack uses FPGA accelerators running custom digital logic tailor-made for our use case [2].

We also conduct cryptography research to identify computationally efficient algorithms for verifiable computing. These research efforts produced a novel cryptographic construction based on towers of binary fields called Binius [3] [4], which we are currently developing into a production-grade system.

Our team has cross-domain expertise and includes hardware designers, low-level systems software engineers, cryptography engineers, and data center specialists, several of whom worked in HFT previously.

[1] https://www.paradigm.xyz/2022/04/zk-hardware

[2] https://www.ulvetanna.io/news/fpga-architecture-for-goldilocks-ntt

[3] https://www.ulvetanna.io/news/binius-hardware-optimized-snark

[4] https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-explains-binius-improve-zero-knowledge-proofs

[5] https://www.ulvetanna.io/news/introducing-ulvetanna

NOTE: We can not sponsor visas of any kind at this time.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where talented individuals can thrive and grow. We value the different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds that each person brings to our team. Even if you don't fit 100% of the job's necessary qualifications, we'd still love to hear from you.