Rust Protocol Engineer â Autheo | Live Mainnet Consensus, P2P Networking & Node Performance

Shape the Future of BlockchainBringing Business On-Chain

Were offering a unique opportunity to join Launch Legends (and Autheo) as a part-time Equity Cofounder. Founded in July 2021 Launch Legends is at the forefront of bridging Web3 blockchain technology with the next evolution of Web2 integrationbringing businesses on-chain through enterprise-grade solutions DePIN innovations and decentralized financial infrastructure.

Our flagship project Autheo is an AI-enabled Layer-0 Operating System with an integrated Layer-1 blockchain and complete decentralized infrastructure that includes decentralized compute storage identity and service marketplaces as well as a full-stack development environment (DevHub)engineered for scalable enterprise adoption developer innovation and real-world blockchain integration.

Our Projects

• Autheo
• THEO token launch & verified markets
• Autheo Team Legends (Parent Company)
• X / Twitter Autheo

  With nearly 100 equity cofounders from leading companies and institutionsmany with advanced degrees and PhDsAutheo is solving the critical challenges blocking business adoption of blockchain technology.

  Autheo Mainnet launched on May 14 2026 (Chain ID 2127) with staking and transaction fees on-chain. DevHub is available to builders. Sovereign identity (TheoID) decentralized compute and persistent storage through the Autheo Marketplace AI inference (THEO AI) and post-quantum cryptography are rolling out on Mainnet.

  THEO is live. This role starts after mainnet not before it.

  THEO trades on Autheo-verified markets with Enflux supporting liquidity across the venues.

  Verified trading links contract addresses and network information: Features

  • Layer-0 OS Layer-1 Sovereign Cosmos-based coordination layer with an EVM-compatible execution environment IBC interoperability and Proof of Autheo consensus.
  • Eigensphere Engine Multi-language runtime. Rust is a first-class path for execution cryptography and developer tooling alongside Go Solidity Move Vyper and C.
  • DevHub & full-stack SDKs One workspace for frontend backend smart contracts and orchestration.
  • TheoID Sovereign identity for people services and AI agents with a post-quantum roadmap (Kyber Dilithium Falcon / NIST ML-KEM ML-DSA SLH-DSA).
  • Autheo Marketplace Decentralized compute storage and service markets rolling out on Mainnet.
  • THEO AI Inference and agent orchestration as a native primitive not a third-party bolt-on.
  • DePIN infrastructure On-chain networks for real-world infrastructure ownership and resource sharing.

  Traction

  • Mainnet: Launched May 14 2026 with on-chain staking fees and a decentralized validator set.
  • Public testnet history: a large active builder and user community before Mainnet.
  • Audits: Halborn (testnet and validator node platform) CertiK (Mainnet and smart contracts) Adevar Labs (Base to Autheo Mainnet bridge).
  • THEO markets: verified venues on MEXC Hydrex on Base and Uniswap on Robinhood Chain with Enflux as liquidity partner across DEX and CEX.
  • Token: THEO the native utility coin of the Autheo network.
  • Organization: Launch Legends Inc. a Wyoming corporation parent of Autheo LLC. Stewarded in part by the Autheo Foundation. 100 equity cofounders across 25 countries.

  Compensation & Growth Path

  This is a part-time equity / token-based cofounder opportunity. You will receive equity in Launch Legends Autheo and the WFO Creator Network along with token allocations in the Autheo blockchain. THEO is already trading; this is an allocation in a live utility token not a promise against a future TGE. We have already completed an initial financing round to support infrastructure and marketing and are currently in discussions with VCs and crypto investors to fund expansion and salaries. There is no cash salary for this role today and the commitment is at least 20 hours per week.

  ROLE: Rust Protocol Engineer Autheo Internet Operating System Live Mainnet Consensus P2P Networking & Node Performance Job code: LA385

  About the Role

  Autheo is recruiting a Rust protocol engineer to work on the node itself: consensus-adjacent paths peer-to-peer networking state sync storage and the performance of the validator set.

  Mainnet launched on May 14 2026 with a decentralized validator set. The coordination layer is Cosmos-based and Rust is a first-class path in the Eigensphere Engine. We want someone who has worked inside a real node: Substrate/Polkadot a Cosmos/CometBFT stack reth or another Ethereum client Solana/Agave Sui/Aptos Fuel or a libp2p-based network. You will make the Rust parts of the Autheo node faster safer to upgrade and easier to reason about.

  Part-time does not mean advisory. Equity cofounder means you own a surface write the code and review the code next to it.

  1. Consensus and state

  • Read harden and extend the Rust components on the block production validation and finality paths. Write down every invariant you rely on.
  • Work on state storage and sync: Merkle/state-DB layout pruning snapshots warp or fast sync and replay tooling for the live chain.
  • Make upgrades deterministic. A node built from the same commit must produce the same state with no exceptions.

  2. Networking

  • Own the Rust P2P paths: peer discovery gossip request/response protocols backpressure and handling of peers that are slow malicious or partitioned.
  • Instrument the network so you can explain a missed block or a slow sync from metrics and traces rather than guesswork.

  3. Node performance

  • Profile hot paths (block import signature verification state reads/writes mempool) on replay and on Mainnet. Report p50/p99 latency allocations and throughput you actually measured.
  • Put benchmarks in CI (criterion or equivalent) so a performance regression fails the build.
  • We dont publish throughput numbers the cluster hasnt measured.

  4. Reliability with SRE

  • Work with Site Reliability on validator and RPC operations: readiness and health signals upgrade runbooks and incident write-ups for any node-level fault.
  • OpenTelemetry/Prometheus coverage on the paths you own.

  Required

  • Public Rust you wrote. A GitHub/GitLab profile crate or merged pull requests to a public Rust project ideally node networking or storage code. We read the code before we read the resume. Applications without a link to Rust code you wrote yourself will not be reviewed.
  • Production Rust: ownership lifetimes async (Tokio or equivalent) and concurrency youve debugged under load.
  • Hands-on work in at least one real blockchain or distributed-consensus codebase (Substrate Cosmos SDK/CometBFT or a Rust ABCI stack reth/Lighthouse Agave/Solana Sui/Aptos Fuel Narwhal/Bullshark/HotStuff-family Raft/Paxos in production). Name the repository and your part in it.
  • Networking depth: libp2p QUIC gossip protocols or an equivalent you can explain at the level of message types and failure modes.
  • Comfortable with Linux performance tools (perf flamegraphs heaptrack or equivalent) and a CI pipeline that builds and tests Rust.

  Preferred

  • Contributions to rust-libp2p smoldot Substrate/polkadot-sdk reth Lighthouse Agave Sui Aptos Fuel NOMT or a comparable project.
  • Light clients state sync or storage engines (RocksDB MDBX Merkle-Patricia/JMT/NOMT).
  • IBC or cross-chain message handling.
  • A public artifact we can read: a design doc talk paper or post-mortem.

  First 90 Days

  • A written map of the Rust surface in the Autheo node: whats live whats stubbed and whats risky with a stop / continue / start list agreed with protocol and SRE.
  • One consensus sync or networking path measured on replay covered in CI and documented.
  • A benchmark in CI for one hot function with the number youre willing to put next to your name.
  • A short design note for one improvement (for example faster sync a peer-scoring change or a state-pruning plan) that has been reviewed by protocol leads.

  About Our Organization

  Autheo is building a Layer-0 Operating System and an integrated Layer-1 so identity compute storage developer tooling and AI sit on one network instead of a pile of bridges. Mainnet is live. THEO is trading. The remaining work is product and protocol on that chain not a promise of a future launch.

  🌠🚠WHY JOIN LAUNCH LEGENDS

  • The chain is up. Staking fees DevHub and verified THEO markets are already public.
  • The Rust seat is on the node itself: consensus P2P and state sync for a validator set thats already live.
  • Equity in Launch Legends and Autheo plus a THEO allocation in a token that already trades.
  • 100 equity cofounders across 25 countries. Remote. Direct line to the engineering leads and the Managing Directors.