Fund Associate (Technical Research)
Published | September 8, 2023 |
Location | San Francisco, CA |
Category | Default |
Job Type | Full-time |
Description
The Role
As a Research Engineer, you’ll be focused on performing in-depth technical overviews regarding investments and new products. The role will focus on 3 **
- Technical Analysis & Investment Research: Conduct rigorous technical analysis and assessments of potential investment opportunities within the web3 ecosystem, providing essential data and insight to inform investment decisions.
- Product Research & Development: Collaborate with the product development and engineering teams within our portfolio companies to assist in the design and implementation of Alchemy products within their business.
- Industry Trends & Insights: Produce highly technical, quantitative content about our investments, upcoming trends and new products, and more generalized macro market analysis for the industry.
- Technical and Whitepaper Analysis: Conduct in-depth technical assessments of potential investment opportunities and current portfolio companies to assist in investment due diligence.
- Research ** Produce in-depth quantitative market research and content that will live and be redistributed through our various content channels.
- Portfolio * Assist our portfolio companies in integrating Alchemy products throughout their tech stack, from first principle systems designs perspectives.
- Open Source * Contribute to leading open source GitHub repositories, focusing on creating public goods for the greater web3 community.
- Product * Provide the rest of the team with technical overviews of emerging products and protocols, down to the cryptography or mathematics behind the product.
- New Product * Help prototype and implement new products for Alchemy based off the synthesis of technical due diligence and research implementation.
What Were Looking ****
- 2-4 years as a researcher or engineer within the web3 space.
- Experience in writing and deploying highly complicated Solidity contracts.
- Ability to understand highly technical concepts and distill them down to easily understandable content for the rest of the team and our greater audience.
- Experience in protocol or systems designs for high velocity web3 startups or protocols.
- Has been following the space closely to understand the relevant narratives and trends that are going to create 80% of the impact within the ecosystem
- Has lived the founders life or has a strong understanding of what that’s like
- Has to be extremely confident paired with a strong technical background that can actively contribute to industry-advancing conversations.
- Has worked at a startup before or has a passion for helping startups succeed and thrive
- Major or minor in computer science or mathematics
- Experience working in a theoretical computer science lab or role.