Prover coordination and sequencer design, decentralization, incentivization.
Levels of finality.
L2 governance, PoS vs PoG.
Auctioning the right to build a block.
Various flavors of staking: vanilla staking, restaking, liquid staking, and systemic risks they come with.
Consensus algorithms
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the known consensus protocolsWhen a given protocol work well, and when does it not
How do we incentivize participants in the consensus algorithms
How finality in consensus algorithms is achieved
Must haves:
A strong understanding of distributed protocol design. Particularly, a demonstrable ability to identify the trade-offs faced by protocols when deployed on blockchains.
Ability to identify mechanism design problems and propose solutions.
Familiarity with Ethereum: how it works and why
Familiarity with various designs of L2s.
Ability to express thoughts precisely.
Nice to haves:
Knowledge about cryptography, or
Knowledge about game theory.
Published work in relevant fields, blog posts and forum posts also count.