Engineering
Published onSeptember 14, 2026

Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-timeRemoteUnited States (10-25% customer-site travel)Paid in cryptoToken grant — ZK tokens, 4-year vest with 1-year cliff

Job Description

Matter Labs builds Prividium, private zero-knowledge settlement infrastructure for regulated financial institutions.

This Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly with institutional customers to take Prividium from signed deal to live production deployment, owning integration, node topology, and the on-call pager for those environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own institutional deployments end-to-end: integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrade paths, runbooks
  • Build reference applications for collateral movement, tokenized deposits, and settlement flows
  • Carry the on-call pager for Prividium and its hosted services
  • Work with Heads of Product/Sales on account strategy and platform roadmap

What we are looking for

  • Production software ownership including on-call experience
  • Strong coding in TypeScript/Rust (or Java/C#/Go/Python with fast ramp-up)
  • Prior forward-deployed engineer / solutions architect / technical founder experience
  • Banking/regulated-finance systems knowledge OR Ethereum execution-client/node internals experience

Additional Information

Fully remote within the United States, with periodic travel (10-25%) to customer sites; compensation includes a long-term token grant vesting over four years with a one-year cliff, in addition to base pay.

Perks and Benefits

  • Performance-based variable comp plus long-term token incentive (paid in ZK tokens)
  • Fully remote
  • Shared on-call rotation

Keywords: Zero-Knowledge, TypeScript, Rust, Ethereum Clients, Institutional Finance, Forward Deployed Engineering
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Matter Labs

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Founded in 2018 and backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures, Matter Labs is a fully remote team of about 70 with eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure experience, now focused on private institutional settlement via its Prividium product.

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