Payments company Block has announced multiple job openings for its bitcoin mining and wallet hardware businesses.

According to the company’s job postings on LinkedIn, the available job openings are heads of policy, communications, and Bitcoin mining associations.

Formerly known as Square, the company entered the market in 2009, focusing on in-person payments and its eponymous card reader, which allows people to accept credit card payments on a smartphone.

CEO Jack Dorsey changed the company’s name to Square last year as they wanted to expand their services to block chainmusic and cash transfers.

According to a job advertisement posted by Block on Saturday for a “test center leader,” the firm said its mining team develops “bitcoin mining ASICs, bitcoin mining rigs, and associated systems, software, and infrastructure.”

The post added that the test center “will house Block’s mining hardware and will be used to test hardware and software and general operational issues (power, cooling, dusting, reboot, performance monitoring, pool connectivity) of the system.” of mining”.

Other job openings also include product and engineering departments. These employees will help “develop the next generation of mining ASICs,” along with building their “first mining rig” and “future mining rig product lines.”

Additionally, there are several other open positions related to portfolio design.

Block revealed its Bitcoin hardware wallet last spring.

According to a January report from CNBC, Block hardware general manager Thomas Templeton outlined the company’s Bitcoin mining goals.

He tweeted: “Common issues we’ve heard with current systems are heat dissipation and dust. They also crash almost every day, requiring a time-consuming reboot. We want to build something that just works.”

Block’s push into mining came as the sector was going through a rough patch. Companies have been struggling with profit margins for the past few months as the value of bitcoin has fallen and energy prices have risen along with the global hash rate.

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