Senior MEV Research Engineer

About the Role

Temporal · New York City (preferred) or Global Remote · Full-time About Temporal Temporal builds low-latency infrastructure at the core of Solana. We operate across transaction landing, validator infrastructure, and proprietary trading systems. Our flagship product is Nozomi, for transaction landing. We see a lot of what happens on Solana before it lands. Understanding what that flow is worth, who is competing for it, and how to price and protect it is its own discipline. That is this role. The role We are hiring a senior MEV research engineer to own how we understand and act on MEV. You will work on top of the on-chain data we already index, and build the pipelines that do not exist yet, to answer questions about extraction, ordering, and value on Solana. Then you turn those answers into product: better MEV protection on Nozomi, better auction mechanics, and better decisions about which flow is worth what. A large part of this is owning our internal searcher intelligence: the pipelines, models, and interfaces that tell us what every searcher trading our flow did, what it earned, and where value is leaking. Those numbers get read by the searchers themselves and they feed commercial conversations, so they have to survive being argued with. When someone disputes one, the honest first move is to check it against chain rather than defend it. You will also run the searcher side of our order flow auction. That means talking to the people bidding into it, understanding what they need, feeding that back into product, and knowing enough about their business to be taken seriously. Searchers can tell within about five minutes whether the person on the other side of the call actually understands MEV. This is not a research role in the publish-a-paper sense, and it is not a BD role with a SQL course attached. The analysis has to be right, and it has to turn into something we ship. What you will do Own the data pipelines behind our MEV and searcher analytics end to end: extrac...