Digital Asset Market Risk M&S Analyst Security Clearance

Position: Digital Asset Market Risk M&S Analyst with Security Clearance
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Department Summary:

MITRE's Model Based Analytics Department is an interdisciplinary department that thrives on having a large toolbox to support data- and model-driven decision making and we value people who can bring diverse perspectives. Our employees are expected to work on multiple projects, cross-pollinate good ideas across the government and continuously learn. Our department works to solve modeling and analytic problems in the public interest, in partnership with the government.

We also actively conduct independent research in areas of interest to our government partners. We are seeking a motivated analyst to support the development of advanced analytical, computational, and simulation capabilities focused on digital asset markets. This role is centered on better characterizing, assessing, and predicting digital asset market dynamics from regulatory, supervisory, and risk management perspectives. The ideal candidate will bring strong quantitative and analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and an interest in applying modeling and simulation methods to complex, emerging financial systems.

This work will support government sponsors in understanding risks, evaluating policy and oversight challenges, and developing actionable insights related to digital assets and market structure. You will work on mission-driven problems at the intersection of digital assets, financial innovation, and public-interest technology. You will collaborate with government sponsors and interdisciplinary teams to develop rigorous, actionable analysis that informs regulatory and risk management decisions in a rapidly evolving domain.

Roles & Responsibilities :
In this role, you will contribute to research and analysis in areas such as:
* Characterizing risks associated with digital asset, token, and stablecoin design.

* Assessing market structure, participant behavior, liquidity conditions, and sources of fragility across digital asset ecosystems.

* Analyzing blockchain and market data to identify anomalous behavior, market manipulation, concentration, and emerging vulnerabilities.

* Designing and building agent-based models, scenario-based simulations, and stress-testing frameworks for digital asset markets and protocols.

* Developing novel empirical measures to evaluate market quality, systemic risk, contagion, resilience, and consumer protection concerns.

* Applying advanced analytics and computational models to inform regulatory, supervisory, and risk management challenges facing MITRE sponsors. The successful candidate will help develop modeling and simulation approaches that improve understanding of digital asset market behavior and risk.

Responsibilities include:

* Developing analytical frameworks to identify, measure, and monitor risks in digital asset markets, including market, liquidity, counter party, operational, conduct, and systemic risks

* Producing evidence and analysis to support real-time market monitoring, surveillance, supervisory instrumentation, and consumer protection strategies

* Supporting the development, evaluation, and testing of digital asset risk assessment frameworks, controls, and standards

* Formulating agent-based models, micro-simulations, scenario analyses, and stress tests to explore market outcomes driven by participant behavior, incentive structures, and protocol design

* Translating policy, regulatory, and supervisory directives into computational rules, model constraints, and measurable indicators

* Modeling and simulating contagion dynamics in digital asset markets, including stablecoin stress events, liquidity shocks, runs, deleveraging, interconnections across platforms and protocols, and feedback effects between on-chain and off-chain markets

* Analyzing drivers of instability such as concentration, manipulation, reflexive trading behavior, and liquidity pool dynamics

* Integrating on-chain, off-chain, transactional, and market-structure data to support empirical analysis and model development

* Validating model outputs using backtesting, calibration, sensitivity analysis, benchmark comparison, and expert…