DeFi Researcher

About the Company

Paxos Labs builds enterprise infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted onchain financial products. We work with the largest financial enterprises in the world to build transparent and verifiable onchain infrastructure that works for end users and everyday financial use cases. If you believe in bringing DeFi and digital assets to the mainstream, consider building your career at Paxos Labs.

The team at Paxos Labs builds DeFi infrastructure that reimagines the way on-chain liquidity strategies are handled. Strategies and risk management are delegated to sophisticated actors who act from compute done in a data rich offchain environment—all the while maintaining on-chain constraints that enforce user safety.

We are looking for a motivated quantitative researcher that can aptly research and deploy extensive knowledge across Trad Fi and DeFi to execute state-of-the-art risk curation and yield optimization across the DeFi ecosystem.

• Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Trad Fi Trading Strategies
• DeFi Trading Strategies

• Manage a portfolio of yield generating opportunities across protocols and chain, closely collaborating with our DeFi engineers on execution.
• Manage algorithm design and backtesting to produce actionable insights for DeFi portfolio management.
• Create frameworks for risk analysis and portfolio optimization.
• Monitor data, forecast risk, and design triggers to enter opportunistic strategies or exit black swan events before anyone else in the market.

• Deep expertise in quant/statistical modelling, finance, risk management (DeFi or Trad Fi)
• Hands-on DeFi protocol experience (staking, AMMs, lending auctions)
• Track record managing Trad Fi or Crypto portfolios