Smart Contract Engineer – Primitives

About PIP Labs & Story

PIP Labs is an R&D company contributing to the development of Story, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain that transforms intellectual property into a programmable asset class.

Story is designed specifically for intellectual property. With Story, creators and developers can register IP on-chain and define usage rights in seconds, dramatically lowering the barriers created by today’s complex and antiquated IP legal systems.

By making IP programmable, Story creates a transparent, decentralized global repository where AI agents, developers, and businesses can discover, license, and monetize intellectual property through simple API-driven interactions.

Story launched mainnet in February 2025, and the native $IP token is now listed on major global exchanges. We are now entering the next phase of development focused on AI-native infrastructure and agent-driven applications built on top of programmable IP.

PIP Labs is building the core infrastructure that powers this ecosystem, defining how intellectual property is registered, structured, and transacted in an AI-driven world.

We are hiring a Smart Contract Engineer to design and implement the programmable IP primitives that power the Story ecosystem.

You will work on the core contracts that enable IP registration, licensing, attribution, and agent-based interactions across the Story network. This role sits close to the protocol and requires strong attention to correctness, extensibility, and security.

You will collaborate closely with protocol engineers and application teams to ensure Story’s core primitives are robust, composable, and practical for real-world use.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building foundational systems that other developers depend on.

• Design and implement secure, production-grade smart contracts for the Story ecosystem

• Build programmable licensing and attribution primitives that enable IP to function as a programmable asset

• Implement contract logic that supports AI agents and automated licensing workflows

• Write comprehensive tests and contribute to internal and external security reviews

• Work closely with protocol and application teams to ensure contracts are extensible and developer-friendly

• Improve architecture and patterns for long-term protocol scalability

• Contribute to technical design discussions around Story’s IP primitives

• 3+ years of experience developing smart contracts using Solidity or Cosm Wasm

• Strong understanding of EVM or Cosmos-based blockchain systems

• Experience shipping production smart contracts

• Strong understanding of smart contract security and common vulnerabilities

• Careful, detail-oriented engineering practices

• Ability to collaborate across protocol and application teams

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving engineering environment

• Experience building protocol or infrastructure-level smart contracts

• Experience preparing contracts for external audits

• Experience with tokenized assets or programmable asset systems

• Familiarity with Cosmos SDK or EVM tooling

• Core IP primitives are secure and pass audits with minimal issues

• Smart contract architecture remains extensible as the ecosystem grows

• Application teams can build easily on top of Story primitives

• Contracts remain simple, composable, and reliable