Senior Blockchain, Distributed Infrastructure & Agentic AI Engineer — Autheo | Layer 0 Mesh, Layer 1, Smart Contracts & Agentic AI

Shape the Future of Blockchain—Bringing Business On-Chain

We’re 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 integration—bringing 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 — https://www.autheo.com


• Docs — https://docs.autheo.com


• Autheo Team — https://www.autheo.com/teams


• Launch Legends (Parent Company) — https://www.launchlegends.io


• X / Twitter — https://x.com/Autheo_Network

About Autheo

With nearly 100 equity cofounders from leading companies and institutions—many with advanced degrees and PhDs—Autheo is solving the critical challenges blocking business adoption of blockchain technology.

Autheo’s Layer-1 network, staking and fee model, and DevHub builder environment are being built and strengthened, alongside sovereign identity (TheoID), decentralized compute and persistent storage through the Autheo Marketplace, AI inference (THEO AI), and post-quantum cryptography.

Key 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 (NIST-standardized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA).


• Autheo Marketplace — Decentralized compute, storage, and service markets built into the Autheo network.


• 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.

Audits & Organization

• Audits: Halborn (testnet and validator node platform), CertiK (Layer-1 chain and smart contracts), Adevar Labs (Base to Autheo bridge).


• 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. 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. There is no cash salary for this role, and the commitment is at least 20 hours per week.

ROLE: Senior Blockchain, Distributed Infrastructure & Agentic AI Engineer — Autheo | Layer 0 Mesh, Layer 1, Smart Contracts & Agentic AI Job code: LA397

About the Role

This role is for a Senior or Principal Software Engineer and reports to the Chief Engineering & AI Officer.

We are seeking highly experienced Senior and Principal Engineers with strong backgrounds in blockchain protocol development, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, smart contracts, and AI-powered automation. You will help architect, develop, secure, and scale Autheo’s Layer 0 Mesh, Layer 1 blockchain, decentralized infrastructure services, and agentic AI capabilities.

This is a hands-on engineering position requiring strong programming skills, distributed systems expertise, production engineering experience, and the ability to solve complex architectural problems. You should bring deep expertise in at least one core engineering domain and the ability to collaborate across the broader technology stack.

How the platform fits together

• Layer 0 Mesh: decentralized infrastructure coordination, distributed computing, networking, resource discovery, and service orchestration.


• Layer 1 Blockchain: blockchain-based trust, consensus, settlement, token economics, and decentralized execution.


• Smart Contracts: programmable business logic, automation, asset management, service agreements, and blockchain-based transactions.


• Agentic AI: autonomous AI agents that coordinate infrastructure operations, intelligent workload allocation, monitoring, and service optimization within defined security and governance controls.


• DevHub and Neighborhood Marketplace: developer tools, APIs, SDKs, and marketplace services connecting customers with infrastructure providers.

Together these support Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), with THEO supporting utility across the ecosystem.

1. Layer 0 Mesh & Distributed Infrastructure

• Design and develop decentralized peer-to-peer networking and infrastructure coordination services.


• Build node discovery, registration, identity, authentication, and service discovery.


• Develop distributed compute scheduling, workload placement, resource allocation, and service orchestration.


• Engineer resilient networking, node-to-node messaging, and fault-tolerant distributed services.


• Implement monitoring, health verification, telemetry, and automated recovery.


• Support heterogeneous infrastructure: cloud, bare-metal, GPU, edge, and independently operated nodes.


• Develop secure APIs and protocols connecting Layer 0 services with Layer 1 and DevHub.

2. Layer 1 Blockchain Engineering

• Develop, maintain, and optimize Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure, protocol services, and node operations.


• Work with Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, Ethereum-compatible environments, and interoperability protocols.


• Develop blockchain modules, transaction processing, consensus integrations, state management, and execution services.


• Engineer secure cross-chain communication, IBC integrations, and interoperability mechanisms.


• Implement performance optimizations, monitoring, testing, and production reliability controls.


• Support validator infrastructure, RPC services, chain upgrades, migration strategies, and network recovery.

3. Smart Contract Engineering

• Design, develop, test, and deploy secure smart contracts supporting Autheo services.


• Build contracts for marketplace payments, token utility, staking, service agreements, resource usage, and automated settlement.


• Work with Solidity, EVM-compatible execution environments, and related frameworks.


• Implement secure upgrade patterns, access controls, role management, and authorization.


• Develop automated testing, fuzzing, security validation, and deployment pipelines.


• Integrate contracts with Layer 0 services, Layer 1 execution, DevHub, and customer-facing applications.

4. Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation

• Develop AI agents that support distributed infrastructure management and service orchestration.


• Build agentic workflows in Python with modern AI frameworks.


• Integrate LLMs, tool-calling architectures, function execution, and agent communication protocols.


• Design AI-powered monitoring, anomaly detection, incident analysis, and infrastructure optimization.


• Develop intelligent workload placement and resource optimization.


• Integrate AI services with blockchain data, smart contracts, distributed infrastructure, and APIs.


• Implement secure agent execution with explicit authorization, human approval boundaries, observability, and audit trails.


• Evaluate LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and MCP where architecturally appropriate.

5. Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure Engineering

• Design scalable, resilient infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, and bare-metal.


• Build containerized services and automation with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.


• Build observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and structured logging.


• Implement automated deployment, configuration management, secrets management, and infrastructure security.


• Optimize compute, networking, storage, utilization, and cost.


• Support high availability, disaster recovery, and reliable production operations.

6. Security, Reliability & Protocol Integrity

Security is a foundational requirement across every Autheo engineering component.

• Apply secure-by-design principles to blockchain protocols, distributed infrastructure, and AI execution.


• Implement least-privilege access, cryptographic verification, identity management, and robust authorization.


• Build safeguards for cross-chain messaging, token minting and burning, supply integrity, and replay prevention.


• Build automated security testing, fuzzing, adversarial testing, and vulnerability detection.


• Implement transaction-level validation, protocol invariants, and independent reconciliation.


• Ensure AI agents cannot execute privileged infrastructure or financial operations without authorized controls.


• Take part in code reviews, incident investigations, remediation, security audits, and independent verification.


• Set measurable reliability, performance, and security standards before production releases.

Required

• Programming: strong production experience with Rust and/or Python, plus proficiency in Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Solidity depending on specialization. Able to develop, review, debug, and optimize complex backend or protocol-level software. Include a link to code you wrote; it’s the first thing we read.


• Distributed systems: distributed architecture, concurrency, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, and networking; APIs, RPC, gRPC, WebSockets, and event-driven systems; data consistency, consensus concepts, and resilience.


• Blockchain & Web3: production blockchain applications, protocol components, or blockchain-integrated backend services; blockchain architecture, transactions, smart contracts, cryptography, and network operations; EVM-compatible ecosystems, Cosmos SDK, IBC, or equivalent.


• Infrastructure & cloud: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, CI/CD, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.


• AI engineering (for AI-focused candidates): practical experience building Python LLM applications, agents, tool integrations, or AI automation, with an understanding of orchestration, model integration, and secure tool execution.

Preferred

• 7+ years of professional software engineering, including significant production systems ownership.


• Designing or operating decentralized infrastructure networks.


• Deep knowledge of Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, or EVM internals.


• Production Rust async experience (Tokio).


• Go-based blockchain modules and protocol development.


• WebAssembly, zero-knowledge technologies, cryptographic verification, and formal methods.


• Distributed GPU infrastructure, edge computing, or decentralized resource marketplaces.


• Production AI agents using Python, LangGraph, MCP, or similar.


• PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, NATS, and distributed messaging architectures.


• Developer platforms, API gateways, SDKs, or BaaS/SaaS products.


• Security audits, blockchain incident response, or protocol remediation.

Engineering Expectations

• Independently design and deliver complex, production-quality systems.


• Understand how infrastructure, blockchain, and AI components interact.


• Write secure, maintainable, well-tested, and documented code.


• Investigate difficult production failures and find root causes.


• Put security, correctness, and reliability ahead of short-term delivery speed.


• Show ownership, technical judgment, and strong collaboration.


• Be comfortable in a fast-moving environment with evolving architecture and requirements.

What You Will Help Build

• A globally distributed Layer 0 Mesh connecting independent infrastructure providers and compute resources.


• A secure Layer 1 blockchain providing trust, programmable execution, settlement, and economic coordination.


• A smart contract ecosystem supporting decentralized services and utility-token integration.


• An agentic AI orchestration framework for intelligent infrastructure management.


• A developer-facing DevHub with APIs, SDKs, tools, and infrastructure services.


• A Neighborhood Marketplace connecting developers, customers, and infrastructure operators.


• A scalable foundation for enterprise BaaS, IaaS, and SaaS offerings.

Success Criteria

• Quality, security, and reliability of delivered software.


• Contribution to successful Layer 0, Layer 1, and smart contract integrations.


• Production readiness, test coverage, and independently verifiable functionality.


• Performance, scalability, and infrastructure efficiency.


• Delivering technical milestones and resolving engineering challenges.


• Contributions to architecture, engineering standards, documentation, and team collaboration.

Build the infrastructure. Secure the network. Enable intelligent decentralized services.

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. The work now is product and protocol: making that network faster, safer, and ready for the builders and businesses that will run on it.

🌐 🚀 WHY JOIN LAUNCH LEGENDS?

• Build the core, not a side project. Protocol, DevHub, TheoID, and the Marketplace are being built and strengthened now, and your work goes straight into them.


• The Senior Blockchain, Distributed Infrastructure & Agentic AI Engineer seat spans Layer 0 Mesh, Layer 1, smart contracts, and agentic AI, working directly with the Chief Engineering & AI Officer.


• Equity in Launch Legends and Autheo, plus a THEO token allocation.


• 100+ equity cofounders across 25+ countries. Remote. Direct line to the engineering leads and the Managing Directors.