Forward Deployed Engineer, EigenCompute

Eigen Labs is building the infrastructure for a more trustworthy internet.

Today's digital world runs on trust-me promises: "Trust that this AI model is giving you unbiased results." "Trust that this platform isn't manipulating your feed." "Trust that this service will honor its commitments." These trust assumptions create massive friction and limit what's possible online.

EigenCloud changes this by making any digital service verifiable. Built on our EigenLayer protocol, which has attracted billions in economic security, EigenCloud lets developers build applications with mathematical trust guarantees instead of pinky promises.

For developers, this means the best of both worlds: Use familiar cloud tools and programming environments while gaining blockchain-level verifiability. No need to rewrite your application in specialized blockchain languages or accept the limitations of smart contract environments.

For the world, this unlocks transformative applications:

• AI systems with economic accountability for their outputs

• Social platforms with verifiable, manipulation-resistant algorithms

• Prediction markets that can resolve on any real-world event

• Financial services with cryptographic transparency

• Any application where trust and correctness matter

We're moving beyond crypto's current focus on digital money to make all digital interactions more trustworthy. With the fastest-growing developer ecosystem in crypto and backing from top-tier investors, we're at the inflection point where verifiable computing goes mainstream.

Ready to build the trust layer for the internet? We're looking for builders who want to solve hard problems and create technology that makes the digital world fundamentally more reliable.

The Role

This is a forward-deployed engineering role at the frontier of verifiable compute infrastructure. You'll partner directly with developers and enterprises to help them move their applications to EigenCompute: bringing blockchain-level verifiability to their offchain workloads without rewriting everything for smart contracts.

What is EigenCompute? It's a verifiable offchain compute service that lets developers upload Docker images and run them in secure Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) while maintaining smart contract-level guarantees: verifiable execution, liveness, and forced inclusion. The vision is programmable scalable compute with cryptographic accountability, enabling complex logic that's impossible in smart contract constraints while preserving trustlessness.

You'll work embedded with two types of teams:

1. Web2 companies wanting to integrate onchain: helping them containerize existing applications and connect them to blockchain systems with verifiable guarantees

2. Web3 protocols wanting to move compute offchain: helping them identify which parts of their code can run in EigenCompute's secure execution environment while maintaining trustlessness, and architecting the integration between smart contracts and containerized workloads

Your job is to make the complex simple. EigenCompute abstracts away the complexity of TEE attestations, EigenDA verification, and cryptoeconomic security, and you'll help teams understand how to structure their applications to leverage these guarantees. You'll guide them through containerizing code, designing the smart contract integration, handling attestation flows correctly, and deploying to production.

The goal is to unlock applications that were previously impossible: Complex compute workloads (AI inference, game logic, complex data processing) that need blockchain-level trust guarantees but can't run in the constraints of EVM environments. AI agents managing capital. Prediction markets resolving on real-world events. Social platforms with verifiable algorithms. You'll be the bridge between traditional cloud computing and verifiable infrastructure.

You'll also work with teams building other Actively Validated Services (AVSs) on EigenLayer, helping them design and deploy infrastructure that leverages EigenLayer's restaking security model. This might include oracles, bridges, or other decentralized services that benefit from cryptoeconomic guarantees.

We're seeking builders who thrive in 0→1 environments, love helping developers succeed, and can navigate both web2 and web3 ecosystems. If you want to shape how the next wave of applications will run with cryptographic guarantees, this is your opportunity.

This is a full-time position that is fully remote or located with the largely Seattle-based team.

What You Will Do

• Work directly embedded with a wide array of partners, from web2 enterprises to DeFi protocols, helping them deploy containerized applications on EigenCompute, owning the full lifecycle from architecture design through production deployment and optimization

• Guide teams through containerizing existing applications (Node.js, Python, Go services) as Docker images and deploying them in EigenCompute's TEE environment—helping them understand which workloads benefit from verifiable offchain compute

• Architect integrations between smart contracts and EigenCompute containers, ensuring attestation flows are correctly tied to onchain verification, results are properly returned to blockchains, and dispute resolution through EigenVerify is handled appropriately

• Help web3 teams identify portions of their protocols that can move offchain to EigenCompute (complex game logic, AI-powered governance, verifiable randomness, prediction market resolution) while maintaining the trust guarantees of their system

• Build reference implementations, starter templates, and integration patterns that demonstrate best practices: containerized workloads with smart contract callbacks, attestation verification patterns, and EigenDA data availability integration

• Create comprehensive documentation, deployment guides, and tutorials based on real-world partner integrations, translating complex TEE concepts, cryptoeconomic security, and verifiable compute into practical patterns developers can follow

• Contribute to EigenCompute infrastructure and help shape the product roadmap by identifying bottlenecks, missing features, and opportunities informed by direct work with developers

What You Will Bring

• 4+ years shipping production web applications or distributed systems, you have deep hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud deployment, and understand what it takes to run reliable services at scale

• Strong engineering fundamentals in TypeScript, Python, Go, or Rust with experience building production APIs, services, and developer tools

• Experience with smart contract development and blockchain integration of offchain systems

• Proven ability to work directly with customers/partners as a forward-deployed engineer, understanding their technical challenges, proposing architectures, and shipping solutions that create real value

• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences: you can explain how verifiable compute works to web2 developers who've never touched blockchain, and help web3 teams understand containerization trade-offs

• Bias toward action and continuous learning: you leverage AI tools to multiply your productivity, stay current with the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure landscape, and prefer working code over perfect designs

Bonus Points

• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications in production (Docker Compose, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures)

• Deep understanding of web3: you've built or contributed to DeFi protocols, rollups, or other blockchain systems

• Familiarity with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel TDX/SGX, attestation flows, or confidential computing concepts

• Track record of building SDKs, developer tools, or infrastructure that other engineers actively use

• Founder or founding engineer experience working at the intersection of web2 and web3

• Clear evidence of explaining complex technical concepts to laypeople through writing/talks

The target salary range for this role is $155,000 - $220,000 USD. The listed range reflects compensation for candidates located in U.S. Tier 1 markets and may vary depending on your location. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards.

Eigen Labs also offers a comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

US Benefits

• Competitive salary and non-cash compensation (tokens and equity)

• World class benefits package (medical/dental/vision)

• Remote work set up stipend

• Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment

• Flexible time off

• 401(k) retirement plan + company match

• Monthly wellness benefit

• Yearly off-sites

• Paid parental leave

If hired outside of the US through an EOR, benefits will be offered based on specific country requirements and EOR offerings.

Equal Opportunity Employment

There's one more, very important thing. We are an equal opportunity employer. We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We take care of each other to create an inclusive work environment where we love to come to work every day. We hope you can join us.

With EigenLayer, building blockchain infrastructure modules (AVSs) in a permissionless manner is no longer a hypothetical—it's our reality. Now, we invite you to be part of this exciting journey.