Smart Contract Engineer

Cercli Tech Limited; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Cercli Tech Limited in Abu Dhabi seeks a Smart Contract Engineer to design and implement protocol primitives for machine-verifiable commitments, state attestations, and autonomous coordination across decentralized environments. The role blends protocol research with systems engineering to build foundations for next-generation physical intelligence systems.

You will work on consensus mechanisms, cryptoeconomic incentives, and security models, contributing to cross-network coordination and

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of consensus systems and cryptoeconomic incentives.
• Familiarity with digital identity, attestation systems, or verifiable data models.
• Ability to move from theoretical design to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design cryptoeconomic systems enabling verifiable commitments and programmable state transitions.
• Research identity, attestation, and reputation primitives within decentralized environments.
• Develop mechanisms for secure cross-network coordination and trust minimization.
• Formalize security assumptions and adversarial models for protocol components.
• Prototype and benchmark new consensus or validation schemes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize research outputs.
• Author technical specifications and research documentation.
• Contribute to audits and formal security reviews.
• Engage with the broader research community where appropriate.
• Engage with the broader research community, including opportunities to contribute to publications, open-source research, and intellectual property.

Skills

Consensus systems

Identity / attestation primitives

Security modelling

From design to implementation

Tools

Rust

Go

Job description

We are seeking a Smart Contract Engineer to design and implement next-generation protocol primitives that enable machine-verifiable commitments, state attestations, and autonomous coordination across decentralized environments.

This role sits at the intersection of protocol research and systems engineering, contributing to the foundations of next-generation physical intelligence systems — where digital protocols coordinate and verify actions across real-world environments

Responsibilities:

• Design cryptoeconomic systems enabling verifiable commitments and programmable state transitions
• Research identity, attestation, and reputation primitives within decentralized environments
• Develop mechanisms for secure cross-network coordination and trust minimization
• Formalize security assumptions and adversarial models for protocol components
• Prototype and benchmark new consensus or validation schemes
• Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize research outputs
• Author technical specifications and research documentation
• Contribute to audits and formal security reviews
• Engage with the broader research community where appropriate
• Engage with the broader research community, including opportunities to contribute to publications, open-source research, and intellectual property

Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of consensus systems and cryptoeconomic incentives
• Familiarity with digital identity, attestation systems, or verifiable data models
• Proficiency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages
• Ability to move from theoretical design to implementation

Nice to have:

• Experience with zero-knowledge systems or verifiable computation
• Knowledge of decentralized identity (DID) or credential frameworks
• Background in mechanism design or formal protocol modelling
• Experience contributing to L1/L2 or interoperability protocols
• Published research or open-source protocol contributions

Job details

Job type

Full time

Location

Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates