Tokenomics Engineer

About the role

Any scoring or incentive system worth having is one people will try to game. Designing the defense, and proving it works, is the job. One wrinkle we take seriously: scoring rules tend to live in several places at once, a spec, the engine or engines generated from it, and the copy in the UI that's supposed to explain them. Change one and forget the rest and you ship a product that misrepresents how it works, which for a transparency product is about the worst bug there is. Keeping them consistent, with parity tests staying green, is half the work. The other half is mechanism design expressed in code: raise the real cost of gaming rather than just lowering the reward, and back the change with a before-and-after simulation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement anti-gaming scoring and incentive mechanisms
• Keep rule definitions consistent across specs, generated engines, and UI copy
• Raise the cost of gaming rather than only capping rewards
• Build simulations that quantify the cost of faking a given outcome
• Maintain parity tests across multiple implementations of the rules
• Document mechanism rationale and fairness considerations

Required skills

• 4+ years of engineering experience focused on mechanism or systems design
• Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills and testing discipline
• Ability to express incentive and anti-gaming design in code
• Experience keeping multiple implementations of logic in sync
• Analytical rigor and clear written reasoning

Preferred skills

• Experience with tokenomics, reputation systems, or game theory
• Familiarity with code generation from specifications
• Data analysis or simulation experience

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