Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
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About Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
About the role
As a Validator Engineer, you will own the uptime, performance, and reliability of Ritual’s validators. You’ll be responsible for managing upgrades, snapshots, and sync performance, while also serving as the primary technical point of contact for validator operators — owning deployment tooling, documentation, and support to ensure seamless participation across testnet and mainnet.
- Build and automate bare-metal & cloud deployments for our validators using our existing full-fledged simulation framework
- Orchestrate client upgrades, parameter changes, and hard-forks with zero downtime across staging and mainnet
- Profile and patch critical paths for optimal performance of the execution and consensus clients
- Produce run-books, maintain clear documentation, and actively support validator operators via Discord to keep staking participation healthy
About you
- 4+ years operating high-availability distributed systems, including direct experience running PoS validators on EVM-based chains
- Proficient in Go and Rust, with the ability to read, debug, and extend both Execution Layer (EL) and Consensus Layer (CL) client code
- Strong grasp of protocol-level concepts such as fork-choice, evidence handling, slashing conditions, and state sync
- Expertise in Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD workflows — automating everything from container builds to canary deployments
- Advanced Linux user with deep networking knowledge and a strong focus on system hardening and security
- Passionate about observability — logs, metrics, and traces are at the core of every operational decision
Nice to have
- Direct experience supporting external validator operators — including writing documentation, maintaining snapshots, and answering integration questions during testnet or mainnet launches
- Upstream contributions to both execution and consensus clients
- Experience orchestrating GPU workloads or other compute-intensive pipelines
- Familiarity with deploying, maintaining, and tuning open-source AI models
- Experience interfacing with infrastructure partners, custodians, and auditors in high-uptime environment
Why join us
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!
Ready to apply?
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About Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
About the role
As a Frontend Engineer at Ritual, you'll build sophisticated interfaces that enable developers to interact with our AI and blockchain infrastructure, as well as rapidly build prototypes built on top of Ritual Chain. You'll create intuitive dashboards and monitoring tools that make complex distributed systems accessible and manageable, from tracking cross-chain transactions to monitoring AI compute nodes, and much more.
- Design and implement transaction monitoring interfaces that visualize the complete lifecycle across Ritual's infrastructure, including broker status, node operations, and cross-chain interactions
- Build and maintain dashboard interfaces for things like node deployment, monitoring, and management across cloud providers
- Develop web applications that enable users to provision and manage customized node infrastructure through intuitive interfaces
- Create responsive dashboards for real-time monitoring of distributed compute resources and container management
- Design and implement DeFi-style interfaces for protocol interactions, similar to DEX and vault management experiences
- Work closely with product, design, and backend teams to create seamless user experiences
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Writing efficient, high-quality code that maintains our high standards for user experience
About you
- Robust fundamental understanding of HTML/CSS, TypeScript, and React
- Strong experience productionizing user interfaces for decentralized applications that interact directly with various EVM-based blockchains
- Strong experience with popular Web3 wallet integration libraries (wagmi, ethers, etc.) and blockchain interaction patterns
- Proven full-stack experience, with the ability to diagnose and resolve end-to-end issues independently from frontend to backend, including familiarity with API design and server-side architectures
- Proficiency with Linux and command-line environments for development and debugging
- Experience building responsive monitoring dashboards and data visualization interfaces
- Expertise in state management patterns and real-time data handling
- Strong understanding of cross-chain transaction flows and blockchain infrastructure
- Experience with modern frontend build tools and deployment pipelines
- Ability to act quickly under high pressure scenarios and context switch at a high frequency
- A high level of end-to-end ownership and self-direction, with excellent communication skills
- Hungry, high-energy and ability to work within and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Nice to have
- Proven track record developing multi-platform applications (web, desktop, mobile)
- Experience building interfaces for distributed systems or node management
- Background with AI/ML infrastructure monitoring and management
- Familiarity with container orchestration and cloud provider interfaces
- Experience with Electron or similar desktop application frameworks
- Knowledge of GraphQL and real-time data subscriptions
- Contributions to open-source projects in the web3 space
Why join us
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ritual
About Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
About the role
We are looking for a talented and motivated Machine Learning Product Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work on a variety of projects related to applied machine learning, including working with the product team on automating Data ETL pipelines, deploying machine learning models, and shipping customer-facing products.
- Scale up model inference and running predictions at scale on cutting-edge models
- Work end to end to connect ML models to human interfaces (e.g. APIs, browsers, and applications)
- Designing and implementing large-scale data and ML pipelines through a full end-to-end product development lifecycle
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations teammates to create cutting-edge products
About you
- Experience as a software engineer
- Experience building and serving machine learning models
- Familiarity with Python and related ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, Jax, and other open-source stacks such as HuggingFace
- Ability to reason through machine learning system tradeoffs
- A high level of end-to-end ownership and self-direction
Extras
- Familiarity with basic machine learning system stacks e.g. TinyML, Triton, CUDA, ROCm, Exo, MLIR, Halide, etc
- Familiarity with DataOps, MLOps, and ML orchestration pipelines
- Understanding of modern ML architectures and intuition for inference performance tradeoffs
- Experience or interest in working on open-source ML products
- Interest in building tech aligned with user privacy, computational integrity, and/or censorship resistance
- Experience at fast-growing companies or startups
Why join us
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ritual
About Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced smart contract engineer to join our team to help build and maintain our open-source smart contract libraries and frameworks. Working closely with product, engineering, and research, you will play a critical role in architecting and implementing the core protocol, useful libraries and tooling, and adjacent prototypes.
We are a lean and agile organization. The ideal candidate thrives in autonomous environments, has a mastery of smart-contract engineering, and enjoys building new products from scratch.
- Building and maintaining core smart contract frameworks and libraries
- Managing smart-contract release lifecycles; from architecting to audit to post-release
- Spearheading research into novel smart contract functionality beyond the EVM
- Collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, researchers, product managers, and operations teammates to create best-in-class products
About you
- General mastery of software engineering principles
- Strong proficiency in Solidity and at least one other non-smart-contract language
- Deep understanding of the EVM and differences across L1/L2/L3 environments
- Familiarity with network node architectures (geth, reth, op-stack, orbit, etc.)
- Experience participating in past smart contract code audits (maintainer or auditor)
- Desire to dive in at the lowest level; experience to know when not to
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities; emphasis on written communication
Extras
- Experience with alternative, non-EVM-based execution environments
- Past experience in contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
Why join us
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ritual
About Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
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Why join us
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ritual
About Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.
About the role
As a Growth Engineer at Ritual, you will spearhead integration of Ritual’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure with partner applications and protocols, expanding the network's reach and impact. Your efforts will allow technology partners in the web3 space and beyond to take advantage of Ritual’s AI infrastructure stack, in creating novel, first-of-their-kind applications.
- Support the full-scale partner integration lifecycle: including initial scoping, product integration and development, deployment, and maintenance
- Provide technical support to partners, develop reusable best practices and standards, and work with partners to identify and build new products and usage patterns tailored to their use cases
- Extend and maintain comprehensive documentation for our integration APIs and SDKs
- Interface with various technologies, including AI/ML, distributed systems, and blockchain, to deliver robust integration solutions
- Evaluate and adopt new tooling and technologies to improve any of the functionalities detailed above
About you
This role is for you if you have:
- Expertise in blockchain engineering, particularly in forward-deployed environments; familiarity with common web3 development libraries and tooling (think, Ethers, Viem, Foundry, etc.) is a strong signal
- Well-rounded understanding of the web3 landscape; experience interacting with protocols across the stack including in DeFi, different L1/L2 environments, bridges, and more is preferred
- Strong engineering foundation; fluency in at least one of Python or TypeScript and hands-on experience working with Solidity and EVM smart contract environments as well as Unix familiarity
- Desire to dive in at the lowest level; experience to know when not to
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities; emphasis on written communication
Extras
- Experience deploying scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure and applications on AWS/GCP, especially using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Past experience in contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
Why join us
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ritual