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Blockchain Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under USCIS rules, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. Employers file the Labor Condition Application with DOL before petitioning USCIS, and the annual cap of 65,000 regular slots applies unless your employer is cap-exempt.
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We’re seeking a Blockchain Engineer to join our Digital Assets Platform Technology team. The role will focus on designing and building scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant platform capabilities that enable the Firm’s digital asset ecosystem, including digital asset custody, tokenization, blockchain connectivity, and smart contract services.
This role combines deep technical expertise in blockchain and distributed systems with strong engineering leadership to deliver resilient, enterprise-grade capabilities that can support digital asset use cases across the firm.
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.
This is Director or Vice President position that develops and maintains software solutions that support business needs.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
What you’ll do in the role:
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team responsible for building secure, scalable, and resilient digital asset custody capabilities within the Digital Assets Platform.
- Define the engineering roadmap for digital asset custody, wallet and key-management capabilities, blockchain connectivity, transaction processing, and supporting platform services.
- Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of custody solutions with a strong focus on security-by-design, protection of cryptographic keys, transaction integrity, segregation of duties, access controls, auditability, and operational resilience.
- Design integrations with institutional custody and wallet technology providers, blockchain networks, node infrastructure, and downstream enterprise platforms.
- Establish secure patterns for the digital asset transaction lifecycle, including transaction creation, policy validation, authorization, signing, submission to blockchain networks, confirmation, and reconciliation.
- Partner closely with cybersecurity, technology risk, compliance, legal, operations, and product teams to translate custody, regulatory, security, and operational-control requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Own production readiness and reliability, including CI/CD, monitoring and observability, incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity, and secure release management for critical digital asset services.
- Implement rigorous engineering practices covering secure coding, automated testing, threat modeling, vulnerability management, code review, security testing, and production controls.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- 7+ years of relevant technology experience, typically supported by a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with digital assets, blockchain, tokenization, or distributed-ledger technologies, preferably delivering production solutions.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architecture and infrastructure, preferably AWS, together with CI/CD, DevSecOps, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and modern platform-engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of digital asset and blockchain architecture, including distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, cryptography, transaction lifecycle, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns.
- Experience integrating institutional custody and wallet infrastructure, including key management, secure transaction signing, custody providers, and wallet orchestration.
- Understanding of tokenization and smart-contract platforms, including common token standards such as ERC-20, ERC-721, and permissioned/security-token patterns, and experience integrating these capabilities into enterprise applications.
- Understanding of institutional digital asset transaction and settlement workflows, including custody, transfer, tokenized assets, Delivery versus Payment (DvP), and on-chain/off-chain settlement.
- Familiarity with the broader digital asset technology ecosystem, including node/RPC infrastructure, blockchain connectivity, stablecoins, and third-party digital asset service providers.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between:
For Director level - NY & CA - $120,000 - $170,000
For VP Level - NY & CA - $155,000 - $215,000
per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
Profile Description
We’re seeking a Blockchain Engineer to join our Digital Assets Platform Technology team. The role will focus on designing and building scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant platform capabilities that enable the Firm’s digital asset ecosystem, including digital asset custody, tokenization, blockchain connectivity, and smart contract services.
This role combines deep technical expertise in blockchain and distributed systems with strong engineering leadership to deliver resilient, enterprise-grade capabilities that can support digital asset use cases across the firm.
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.
This is Director or Vice President position that develops and maintains software solutions that support business needs.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
What you’ll do in the role:
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team responsible for building secure, scalable, and resilient digital asset custody capabilities within the Digital Assets Platform.
- Define the engineering roadmap for digital asset custody, wallet and key-management capabilities, blockchain connectivity, transaction processing, and supporting platform services.
- Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of custody solutions with a strong focus on security-by-design, protection of cryptographic keys, transaction integrity, segregation of duties, access controls, auditability, and operational resilience.
- Design integrations with institutional custody and wallet technology providers, blockchain networks, node infrastructure, and downstream enterprise platforms.
- Establish secure patterns for the digital asset transaction lifecycle, including transaction creation, policy validation, authorization, signing, submission to blockchain networks, confirmation, and reconciliation.
- Partner closely with cybersecurity, technology risk, compliance, legal, operations, and product teams to translate custody, regulatory, security, and operational-control requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Own production readiness and reliability, including CI/CD, monitoring and observability, incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity, and secure release management for critical digital asset services.
- Implement rigorous engineering practices covering secure coding, automated testing, threat modeling, vulnerability management, code review, security testing, and production controls.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- 7+ years of relevant technology experience, typically supported by a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with digital assets, blockchain, tokenization, or distributed-ledger technologies, preferably delivering production solutions.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architecture and infrastructure, preferably AWS, together with CI/CD, DevSecOps, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and modern platform-engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of digital asset and blockchain architecture, including distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, cryptography, transaction lifecycle, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns.
- Experience integrating institutional custody and wallet infrastructure, including key management, secure transaction signing, custody providers, and wallet orchestration.
- Understanding of tokenization and smart-contract platforms, including common token standards such as ERC-20, ERC-721, and permissioned/security-token patterns, and experience integrating these capabilities into enterprise applications.
- Understanding of institutional digital asset transaction and settlement workflows, including custody, transfer, tokenized assets, Delivery versus Payment (DvP), and on-chain/off-chain settlement.
- Familiarity with the broader digital asset technology ecosystem, including node/RPC infrastructure, blockchain connectivity, stablecoins, and third-party digital asset service providers.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between:
For Director level - NY & CA - $120,000 - $170,000
For VP Level - NY & CA - $155,000 - $215,000
per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Blockchain Engineer
Verify your degree maps to blockchain
USCIS scrutinizes whether your specific degree directly supports a Blockchain Engineer role. A computer science or software engineering degree holds up well; a general business degree rarely does. Pull the O*NET profile for this occupation to see how adjudicators evaluate the degree-to-role connection.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter Blockchain Engineer roles by employers who have active H-1B LCA filings in this occupation code. That filing history confirms the employer understands the sponsorship process and has already cleared DOL's prevailing-wage certification step.
Run the prevailing wage before salary talks
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your job zone and metro area before any offer conversation. Blockchain Engineers in financial hubs like New York or San Francisco fall into higher wage tiers, and the LCA must certify your offered wage meets or exceeds that level.
Ask employers about cap-exempt status early
Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and certain government-affiliated entities are cap-exempt, meaning your petition bypasses the lottery entirely. If you're open to those environments, confirm cap-exempt status in the first recruiter call so you're not planning around a lottery that doesn't apply.
Document your blockchain project contributions precisely
USCIS RFEs on Blockchain Engineer petitions often challenge whether the role genuinely requires a theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge. Gather code repositories, architecture documents, audit reports, and published technical contributions before your employer's attorney drafts the support letter.
File premium processing if your start date is tight
Standard H-1B adjudication runs several months after cap selection in April. If your OPT or current status expires close to October 1, ask your employer to file Form I-907 for premium processing so USCIS returns a decision within 15 business days and leaves time to respond to any RFE.
H-1B Visa Blockchain Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Blockchain Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Roles that accept any degree or substitute years of experience without a degree requirement weaken the specialty-occupation argument. The employer's job description must reflect that theoretical and practical application of specialized knowledge is central to the work.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Blockchain Engineers?
Financial services firms, cryptocurrency exchanges, enterprise software companies, and blockchain infrastructure startups are the most active sponsors in this occupation. Cap-exempt universities and government-affiliated research labs also hire Blockchain Engineers without requiring lottery selection. Migrate Mate lets you filter Blockchain Engineer openings by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history, so you're not guessing at sponsorship willingness.
How does the H-1B lottery affect Blockchain Engineer job timelines?
USCIS opens registration in March, selects registrants by late March, and the earliest a cap-subject H-1B can start is October 1. That gap means you need OPT, OPT STEM extension, or another valid status to bridge from selection to your start date. Blockchain Engineers whose employers qualify as cap-exempt bypass the lottery entirely and can start year-round.
Can a Blockchain Engineer on OPT work for a crypto startup while waiting for H-1B approval?
Yes, if the startup filed your H-1B petition before your OPT expired and USCIS received it in time to trigger cap-gap protection. Cap-gap automatically extends your OPT authorization through September 30 if your petition is timely filed and properly maintained. Confirm the startup has an Employer Identification Number and can sign the LCA, since some early-stage entities run into DOL compliance issues at that step.
What happens to H-1B status if a Blockchain Engineer's employer is acquired or shuts down?
If the acquiring company is a successor in interest and assumes the same wage obligations and working conditions, your existing H-1B often transfers without a new petition. If the employer shuts down, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer, have a new I-129 filed on your behalf, or take another action to maintain status. Document the acquisition terms with your employer's attorney as soon as a deal is announced.