
The network for machine intelligence
What they do: Decentralized/open protocol that aggregates distributed compute for machine learning
Tech focus: OP-stack / Ethereum rollup implementation with trustless verification and P2P coordination
Founders: Ben Fielding (Co‑founder & CEO) and Harry Grieve (Co‑founder)
Funding: Raised multiple rounds including a $6.5M seed (2022) and a reported ~$43M Series A
Distributed machine-learning compute and decentralized coordination for ML training
Software Development
$1.1M
Reported pre-seed in 2021 with participation from Entrepreneur First and others
$6.5M
Seed financing with participation from Galaxy Digital, Maven 11, CoinFund and others
$43M
Reported Series A led by a16z (Crunchbase reporting)
$16.14M
Dealroom records a token public offering raising approximately $16.14M with 7,412 participants
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Machine intelligence will soon take over humanity’s role in knowledge-keeping and creation. What started in the mid-1990s as the gradual off-loading of knowledge and decision making to search engines will be rapidly replaced by vast neural networks - with all knowledge compressed into their artificial neurons. Unlike organic life, machine intelligence, built within silicon, needs protocols to coordinate and grow. And, like nature, these protocols should be open, permissionless, and neutral. Starting with compute hardware, the Gensyn protocol networks together the core resources required for machine intelligence to flourish alongside human intelligence.
Machine intelligence will soon take over humanity’s role in knowledge-keeping and creation. What started in the mid-1990s as the gradual off-loading of knowledge and decision making to search engines will be rapidly replaced by vast neural networks — with all knowledge compressed into their artificial neurons. Unlike organic life, machine intelligence, built within silicon, needs protocols to coordinate and grow. And, like nature, these protocols should be open, permissionless, and neutral. Starting with compute hardware, the Gensyn protocol networks together the core resources required for machine intelligence to flourish alongside human intelligence.
The Role You will build and lead the team responsible for the reliability, security, and scalability of Gensyn’s production infrastructure and developer platform. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role: you’ll manage and grow a high-performing Infrastructure / Platform / SRE / Security group while remaining technically deep across cloud systems, distributed systems, and operational excellence.
Critically, this role requires meaningful Ethereum / EVM experience, gained either by building an EVM-based protocol or working in a smart contract security/auditing environment.
Responsibilities
Must Have (Required)
Nice to Have
Our Principles Autonomy & Independence
Rejection of mediocrity & high performance
Compensation / Benefits
Rejection of mediocrity & high performance
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Fully remote work - we currently hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones
Visa sponsorship - available for those who would like to relocate to the US after being hired
3-4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year
Whatever equipment you need
Paid sick leave and flexible vacation
Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance - including spouse/dependents 🇺🇸 only Our Principles Autonomy & Independence
Don’t ask for permission - we have a constraint culture, not a permission culture.
Claim ownership of any work stream and set its goals/deadlines, rather than waiting to be assigned work or relying on job specs.
Push & pull context on your work rather than waiting for information from others and assuming people know what you’re doing.
Communicate to be understood rather than pushing out information and expecting others to work to understand it.
Stay a small team - misalignment and politics scale super-linearly with team size. Small protocol teams rival much larger traditional teams.