International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets, providing market-leading infrastructure in addition to custody, trading and prime brokerage services.

Our award-winning custody application leverages the genius of multi-party computation (MPC) and can be configured to support cold, warm, and hot wallet solutions.

Our culture is based on innovation, enthusiasm and above all else collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

Conduct cryptography literature review, select relevant papers, and produce a specification and pseudocode from the paper(s).

Implement cryptography specifications into secure, production-level code.

Interact with auditors and academia, as well as client-side cryptographers.

Provide cryptography support for other Copper development teams.

Integrate cryptography primitives into Copper’s internal MPC framework.

Participate in the design and implementation of Copper’s next generation MPC framework.

Your Experience Skills and Knowledge:

Essential

5+ years engineering experience in the implementation of cryptography primitives, preferably in MPC, Threshold cryptography, Zero Knowledge Proofs or similar.

3+ years R&D experience specializing in MPC and Threshold cryptography, gained within academia or industry.

Proficiency in programming with Rust, or significant programming experience using C, C++ or Golang

Deep knowledge of common signature schemes of blockchains e.g., ECDSA, EdDSA, BLS

Experience with containerisation and DevOps practices.

Desirable

Masters/PhD in Cryptography/Mathematics

Prior experience with HSMs, Intel SGX, iPhone secure enclaves etc.

Prior experience with Scala, Kotlin or Java.

Prior experience working on a cryptocurrency wallet, or a similar system engineering problem

Familiarity with the digital asset custody space

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Alan Brophy (alan.brophy@copper.co)

More information: https://grnh.se/da97a862teu