[Hiring] Protocol Engineer @Morpho

Role Description

The mission of this role is to accelerate Morpho's protocol roadmap by contributing across the full lifecycle of protocol development, from research and mechanism design through Solidity implementation, formal verification, and audit cycles. You will work alongside the protocol team to run parallel workstreams on new lending primitives, liquidation improvements, oracle integrations, and fixed-rate loans, while thinking adversarially about security and system design.

Responsibilities

• Research and design new lending mechanisms, liquidation strategies, and oracle integrations with the protocol team to ship production-ready improvements that extend Morpho's capabilities.
• Write and review production Solidity code for smart contracts securing significant TVL, prioritising correctness, gas efficiency, and simplicity.
• Lead medium-to-large protocol initiatives end-to-end, from research through design, implementation, and deployment, potentially coordinating across multiple teams.
• Think adversarially about protocol design, identifying attack vectors, edge cases, and failure modes before they reach production.
• Prototype new protocol ideas using formal analysis, simulation, or verification to validate mechanism design before committing to full implementation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and leadership on architecture decisions to keep Morpho's protocol stack coherent and minimal.
• Review the team's research and conduct literature reviews to bring external insights and challenge existing designs with fresh perspectives.

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: You've built a deep working knowledge of Morpho v1 and Vault v2 codebases. You've paired with Adrien and Mathis on active protocol workstreams, started contributing ideas in protocol calls, and understand how the team designs, reviews, and ships.
• First 4 months: You have complete command of Morpho v1 and v2 at the level of existing team members. You independently own the design and implementation of new lending primitives or protocol improvements such as liquidations, oracles, or fixed-rate loans. You are completely autonomous in research tasks, contribute to trade-off discussions on protocol architecture, and have shipped production smart contracts through the audit cycle.
• In 1 year: You've led a meaningful protocol initiative end-to-end with a large design space (think pre-liquidations, auto-rolling, mempool/router work). You shape architectural decisions on Morpho's roadmap and are a trusted technical voice the protocol team relies on for cross-cutting design calls. You are a force de proposition, regularly surfacing new ideas and directions.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field (Math, Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, Economics) or equivalent depth of knowledge.
• 5+ years of experience in software architectural design and implementation of complex systems.
• 2+ years of experience in blockchain R&D, with a strong track record in protocol design and implementation.
• Excellent abstraction capacity: able to quickly understand complex mechanisms and distil them to their essentials.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas concisely and contribute productively to fast-paced research discussions.
• A good theoretician with a practical sense: you can design elegant systems but you also ship fast and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous contexts where the playbook doesn't exist yet.
• Strong ownership and autonomy, you don't wait to be told what to do next.
• Creativity and critical thinking: able to challenge designs and propose novel solutions, not just execute.
• Team-first mindset, low ego, genuine curiosity about DeFi and the problems Morpho is solving.
• Humble.

Benefits

• You'll design and ship core lending primitives securing billions in TVL.
• The work spans mechanism design, formal analysis, Solidity implementation, and audit preparation.
• Join a small, elite protocol team of former academics and research engineers.
• Compensation is P90 base via Pave benchmarks plus MORPHO token grants.
• Relocation support available for candidates moving to Paris.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.