Help us build the trust infrastructure for the agentic economy
Zero Proof is an emerging venture currently in development through Montauk Capital's studio.
Currently, enterprises are adopting autonomous agents at scale; security incidents are rising without cryptographic verification of identity/intent. The market monitors agent behavior after the fact.
Zero Proof is building a scalable trust platform that verifies agents at the developer, enterprise and infrastructure level. Our mission is to make multi-agent commerce safe, transparent and scalable.
Co-Founder Position
As Head of Cryptography and co-founder, you will own the cryptographic strategy and implementation of Zero Proof's verification layer to attest agent identity, capabilities, and policy-bounded actions. This is a hands-on role that will design and deliver the cryptographic and proof systems that make agent actions verifiable, privacy-preserving, and low-latency in production.
Assess current prototype: architecture, data flow, threat model, business priorities
Define cryptographic boundaries: what must be encrypted, authenticated, key-managed; separate performance-critical vs trust-critical components
Design and implement core primitives and protocols; integrate with agents lacking current standards
Establish key management, access control, and secure data handling
Owner's mindset: we're building this together
Obsession of cryptography and bringing verification to the agent economy
Love for hands-on building and discovering new ways to do things
Team mentality, we work closely and collaboratively
Cryptography and tech community engagement
7–10+ years in applied cryptography / protocol engineering with shipped production systems
Hands-on Rust (systems, ownership/borrowing model; perf profiling)
Practical ZK experience (circuit/protocol design or integrating ZK frameworks) and strong standards-based crypto (TLS/JOSE/HPKE, key lifecycle, KMS/HSM)
Cloud production chops: EKS/K8s, Terraform or AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, cloud networking (VPC, ingress, service mesh, secrets)
Be part of building the trust infrastructure for the next generation of AI commerce
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