DeFi Quant Researcher

📋 Description

• Research and develop systematic trading strategies across DeFi protocols
• Identify and validate alpha signals using on-chain data
• Analyze smart contracts, tokenomics, and market structures
• Build backtests accounting for gas, slippage, and data availability
• Develop research pipelines using on-chain data and blockchain data
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy live strategies

🎯 Requirements

• Strong mathematical/quantitative background
• Hands-on DeFi experience with on-chain data
• Experience with on-chain data sources (The Graph, Dune, node data)
• Strong Python skills for research and analysis
• Solidity or smart contract knowledge is a plus
• Rigorous validation of hypotheses and data quality

🎁 Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of quant finance and DeFi
• End-to-end ownership from hypothesis to live performance
• Direct collaboration with portfolio managers and engineers
• Exposure to diverse DeFi protocols and datasets
• Chance to progress concepts to live capital deployments
• Access to research infrastructure and specialized tooling