DeFi Researcher

About Paxos Labs

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.

About the Role

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

Areas of focus:

1. Quantitative Risk Analysis

2. TradFi Trading Strategies

3. DeFi Trading Strategies

Key Responsibilities

- Manage a portfolio of yield generating opportunities across protocols and chains

- 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

Requirements

- Deep expertise in quant/statistical modeling, finance, risk management (DeFi or TradFi)

- Hands-on DeFi protocol experience (staking, AMMs, lending, auctions)

- Track record managing TradFi or crypto portfolios