Birdai Labs builds execution-quality infrastructure for Move-based blockchains, bringing the rigor of traditional market structure to onchain markets. The company was co-founded by Kevin Farrelly, who previously built Random Forest Capital and sold it to Franklin Templeton, and Greg Scanlon, a former Citadel quantitative trader and longtime validator operator. We are venture backed and recently closed our seed round.

The role

You will work at the core of our data platform: exact reconstruction of onchain market state across the Move ecosystem, and the production APIs that serve it.

Read Move contracts for unfamiliar DeFi protocols and derive their exact state and pricing behavior
Build and extend pipelines that reconstruct onchain market data with full historical depth and real-time freshness
Design, ship, and operate the production API layer that serves our data externally
Use AI tooling and automation to scale coverage without scaling headcount
Work directly with the CTO and quantitative research

What we require

Elite applied math: invariant derivation,



fixed-point arithmetic, numerical solvers, orderbook mechanics
Move fluency on any Move chain, or an elite Rust and systems background with evidence you master new VMs rapid
Smart contract depth: you can open an unfamiliar DeFi contract and extract its precise economic behavior, including fee paths and edge cases
Exceptional API engineering: you have designed, shipped, and operated production data APIs (REST and WebSocket, auth, rate limiting, usage metering, versioning, low-latency serving)
Cryptography: strong working command of hashing, signatures, serialization, and the security reasoning that comes with them
Engineering: Python, PostgreSQL, high-throughput ingestion, AWS
AI-native: you use AI coding tools and agents daily, know how to direct, verify, and manage them, and multiply your output without outsourcing correctness
A verification mindset: nothing ships until it matches the chain exactly

Signals we

📌 Senior Protocol Engineer, Move (India)
🏢 Birdai Labs
📍 India