Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize all layers of the Hyperliquid protocol stack. This includes consensus, execution (HyperCore and HyperEVM), and API/RPC servers.
- Design and implement financial and trading primitives on the Hyperliquid L1
Candidate Profile & Mindset
- Very strong systems engineering ability: writing modular, maintainable code within a complex codebase, where correctness and performance are critical
- Interest in performance optimization
- Strong first principles thinker
- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication skills
- Competitive programming experience (e.g., IOI, ICPC) or similar level of programming ability
- Experience with Rust
- Able to work in-person
About Hyperliquid Labs
Hyperliquid Labs, founded in 2022 by Jeff Yan and a team of Harvard, Citadel and Hudson River Trading alumni in San Francisco and New York, builds Hyperliquid, a high-performance on-chain perpetuals exchange on its own Layer 1. The venue combines an off-chain orderbook for low latency with on-chain settlement, vaults and native HIP tokens, targeting professional traders seeking deep liquidity and transparent funding. Headquartered with a distributed team across the US, Hyperliquid Labs emphasizes performance engineering, risk engine correctness and self-custody without centralized intermediaries. The product has gained rapid adoption among perpetuals traders for speed and fee efficiency. The exchange operates vaults, liquidations and transparent fee schedules that reward market makers while maintaining self-custody and on-chain verifiability for participants. Expect a performance-obsessed culture that values exchange-grade reliability, market microstructure understanding and iterating quickly on trading UX under real orderflow.