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Founding Cryptography Engineer

Job in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 76101, USA
Listing for: PostQ
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-14
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 240000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 240000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Role overview

Own the cryptographic systems at the heart of a post-quantum security platform. This senior, high-trust role focuses on implementing hybrid signing, key exchange, a verifiable transparency log, and an attested signing environment. The work is expected to be correct, auditable, and clear enough for security teams to inspect closely.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement hybrid signatures combining ML-DSA with Ed25519 or ECDSA, and ML-KEM key exchange.
  • Build and maintain an RFC 6962 Merkle transparency log, including consistency proofs and witness cosigning.
  • Harden signing with envelope encryption, enclave attestation, and hardware-backed keys.
  • Develop reference verifiers and keep behavior consistent across the CLI, SDKs, and API.
  • Apply NIST post-quantum cryptography standards and relevant specifications in production code.
Requirements
  • Strong Go programming skills;
    Rust experience is preferred.
  • Track record building security-sensitive systems.
  • Practical knowledge of applied cryptography, including signatures, key encapsulation, hashing, X.509, and TLS.
  • Ability to read standards and RFCs and implement them accurately.
  • Commitment to testable, auditable, well-documented code.
Nice to have
  • Experience with confidential computing environments such as Nitro Enclaves or SGX, or with TPM 2.0.
  • Contributions to open-source cryptography libraries.
Benefits and work setup
  • Remote-first role open to US and EU time zones.
  • Candidates are assessed on demonstrated ability rather than formal credentials.
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