- Design and build end-to-end oracle pipelines across:
- data ingestion
- semantic interpretation
- evidence collection
- AI reasoning
- verification
- onchain output
- Build protocol mechanisms for:
- decentralized verification
- challenges and disputes
- proof publication
- fault handling
- Work on reproducible and verifiable AI execution, including opML-style verification and controlled inference environments.
- Build high-performance infrastructure for real-time event monitoring and low-latency oracle delivery.
- Design resilient multi-source data systems, including:
- source aggregation
- normalization
- anomaly detection
- conflict handling
- fallback mechanisms
- Develop and maintain EVM smart contracts supporting oracle outputs, verification, disputes, and settlement.
- Contribute to Cournot's Intelligence Oracle and Agentic Oracle architecture.
- Build infrastructure that enables agents to continuously monitor conditions, evaluate evidence, and trigger actions within predefined policy boundaries.
- Collaborate on economic and incentive mechanisms for:
- oracle nodes
- verifiers
- challengers
- skill providers
- Work closely with product, research, and engineering teams to translate protocol concepts into production systems.
- Review architecture, security assumptions, and failure modes across the protocol stack.
- Min. 4+ years of experience in distributed systems, blockchain protocols, backend infrastructure, or systems engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages.
- Hands-on experience with EVM smart contracts and blockchain infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts such as:
- consensus
- fault tolerance
- networking
- state machines
- deterministic execution
- Experience designing or operating high-availability backend or protocol infrastructure.
- Ability to reason clearly about protocol security, trust assumptions, and adversarial environments.
- Comfortable working across protocol design, systems engineering, and applied research.
- Strong ability to independently own complex technical problems from architecture through implementation.
About Cournot
Cournot is a quantitative decentralized finance protocol and risk-modeling laboratory building autonomous liquidity management algorithms, automated market-making primitives, and institutional risk metrics for Web3 ecosystems.