Developer Experience Engineer

About Ritual Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies. About the role As a Developer Experience Engineer at Ritual, you will architect and build the foundational tools that enable developers to efficiently build on our infrastructure. You'll create the development frameworks, testing environments, and automation tools that make it seamless for developers to integrate with Ritual's AI and blockchain capabilities. Your work will directly shape how developers interact with and build on Ritual's platform. Design and implement best-in-class development frameworks that do for AI-enabled chains what Foundry did for the EVM Identify friction points in the developer journey and build solutions to address them Build lightning-fast local development environments that make testing against Ritual as seamless as working with tools like anvil Create elegant CLIs and SDKs that make complex AI and blockchain interactions feel natural Craft developer tooling that makes deploying and testing AI-enabled smart contracts a joy Design and implement powerful debugging and simulation capabilities for AI-blockchain interactions Write clear, engaging documentation and tutorials that get developers from zero to hero Run workshops and hackathons to energize the developer community and gather direct feedback Build and nurture an active open-source community around our development tools About you Strong experience with at least one of Rust, TypeScript, or Python Past experience contributing to open-source pr