RareSkills Researcher

As a RareSkills researcher, you will be contributing to the technical content we post on our website.

We do not have specific requirements, but generally, researchers have one or more of the following:

• A Masters or PhD in a STEM subject
• Have had some findings in smart contract audit contests (e.g. Code4rena)
• Have published deeply technical content before, targeted to programmers
• At least a year of programming experience

Working at RareSkills

RareSkills is at the forefront of making the most difficult engineering subjects in Web3 accessible. We invest a lot of effort in deeply understanding a subject and then explaining it as clearly as possible. By saving engineers and security auditors time in ramping up on new domains, they can spend more time building and finding bugs.

Besides the relevant experience listed above, you will need the following qualities to excel at this role:

• You have integrity — you do your best when nobody is looking and you credit the work of others.
• You have immense psychological endurance to go through the extensive review process at RareSkills.
• You have an attitude of “good enough is not good enough” — the hallmark of RareSkills is industry excellence. You find ways to make a good article even better. We need the entire technical team to hold themselves to this standard.
• You can deal with unfamiliar and undocumented technical issues. You aren’t scared to dive into large codebases to find hard-to-get information. You don’t sweep tough technical questions under the rug but aggressively hunt down the answer. If Google and GPT don’t have the answer, you can still figure it out.

This is a remote-only role and there are no timezone restrictions on this role. We prefer to pay in crypto (stablecoins like USDT or USDC). However, we cannot hire people residing in countries sanctioned by the United States (RareSkills is registered in the US).