Curious about applying to Equilibrium Labs?

We are a global team of ~30 engineers, cryptographers, and economists across 12 countries.

While we have aspirations to make an impact in the external world, our internal culture and the day-to-day lives we lead while working at Equilibrium Labs are equally important. We try to mold the company to fit our people rather than mold our people to fit the company. To achieve this, we do a number of things:

Maximize Learning

• Working in a rapidly evolving industry requires a mindset of continuous learning. From internal knowledge sharing to running learning sessions with guest speakers, we encourage everyone at EQ to keep learning and provide opportunities to explore frontier technologies.

• We also encourage you to attend relevant industry events to broaden your network and stay updated on the latest industry trends.

Minimize Hierarchy

• If we hire excellent people, hierarchy is largely unnecessary and potentially even harmful. 

• We generally have a very fluid decision-making process. Anyone can make almost any decision; they just need to convince a group of peers with relevant experience or information about the topic. 

• Some tasks require some degree of hierarchy, in which case we can explicitly give some people the temporary authority to carry out a task as they best see fit. This emergent hierarchy is fine as long as it doesn't become static.

Minimize Process

• Static processes are almost as bad as static hierarchies. They quickly accumulate and create a never-ending swamp of bureaucracy. 

• Wading through such swamps is not our idea of fun, so we try very hard not to create one. We avoid creating new processes until we absolutely have to, and we constantly evaluate our existing processes with the intent to kill them. 

• Example: We have zero compulsory meetings, instead opting for asynchronous text-based daily and weekly updates.

These practices allow us to be happier, more functional, and more innovative to benefit everyone we work with and anyone who uses the things we build. We believe great things can be built when ambition and empathy are in equilibrium (ha).

So that's us. If this sounds like an environment you'd like to work in, we are always looking for exceptional people.