\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nOur mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. The unique challenges of decentralized systems call for innovative approaches in mechanism design, smart contract development, and financial product utilization. Gauntlet leads in advancing this knowledge, ensuring safe progression through the evolving landscape of financial innovation.\n\n\nAbout Applied Research\n\n\nThe Applied Research Organization at Gauntlet seeks to answer DeFi’s hardest questions. We provide deep quantitative expertise to top DeFi protocols and ecosystems, including Uniswap, Near, and Movement, on how they can grow, optimize, and de-risk mechanisms within their various systems. Unlike other product-oriented teams at Gauntlet, the Applied Research team provides white-glove solutions and services to top protocols and clients within the Web3, DeFi space.\n\n\nThe Role\n\n\nWe seek to expand our research team to lead client-facing engagements under the Applied Research organization. This role is client-facing and requires direct interaction between the researcher and the client (often top leaders/thinkers in the industry).We are hiring at all levels, from Junior to Lead, based on experience and ability. Junior Researchers are expected to perform high-quality and publishable research on behalf of various clients with direction and guidance from more senior researchers. In contrast, Lead researchers will be expected to support the roadmap and deliverables of multiple clients whilst upholding the quality bar for a team of more junior researchers. This role requires deep expertise in blockchain analytics, quantitative research, and statistical modeling, strong leadership skills to drive data-driven decision-making, and strong communication skills with the ability to interface directly with clients.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Perform in-depth mechanism design and research to develop the next generation of DeFi mechanisms and patterns.\n* Own client success through the development of research roadmaps and managing the team responsible for executing these roadmaps at a high-quality bar.\n* Develop predictive models, statistical analyses, and machine learning algorithms to extract blockchain and market data insights.\n* Work with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets, ensuring data integrity and efficient processing.\n* Publish research reports and insights on blockchain data trends, protocol performance, and economic models.\n* Attend international conferences to present Gauntlet’s research to the larger DeFi and Web3 community\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* 1-10+ years of experience in research, data science, or mechanism design.\n* Strong verbal and written communication skills, along with the ability to operate in a client-facing role.\n* Deep understanding of DeFi and crypto topics through professional work or personal interest and experience.\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Contribute to the forefront of DeFi economic understanding and optimization.\n* Work on projects that value deep research, quality, and practical outcomes.\n* Collaborate with a team committed to defining future financial systems.\n* Master’s or Ph.D. in Quantitative fields like Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Physics, or similar fields is a plus.\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,500 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Web3, Crypto, Senior and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $40,000 — $80,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote

\nWho is Risk Labs?\nRisk Labs is the foundation and core team whose mandate is to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.\n\n\nWhat is UMA?\nUMA's optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.\n\n\nWhat is Across?\nAcross is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO. Across' purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient. Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability, and are settled by Across. \n\n\n\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled and versatile Engineering Lead to join our dynamic team. This unique role blends the responsibilities of an engineering manager with the hands-on expertise of a senior engineer or technical architect. If you're a crypto-native professional with a passion for innovation, a deep technical acumen, and the ability to lead a small team while remaining deeply involved in coding and technical design, this role is for you.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Technical Architecture: Collaborate to develop and design innovative technical specifications and solutions for complex product challenges\n* People Management: Lead/coach a small cross-stack team ( 2-4 engineers), including regular 1:1s and foster a engineering culture of high performance.\n* Building & reviewing: Manage and prioritize time to juggle hands-on coding, code-review, and providing technical direction to maintain high standards of code quality, performance, and security.\n* Project and Task Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring alignment with the product vision and road map. \n* Cross-Stack Expertise: dive deep with your team on cross functional technical challenges across backend, contracts, bots, and frontend.\n* Crypto-Native Expertise: Stay ahead of trends in DeFi and the interoperability space. \n\n\n\nRequirements\n* 4+ years full-time experience in Engineering at a software or financial services technology organization\n* Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively and innovate within the constraints of the technology stack.\n* 3+ blockchain-based projects, ideally with some experience leading small teams \n* Proven track record of successfully managing engineering projects, from concept to deployment.\n* Experience in people management, with a focus on mentoring, career development, and fostering a collaborative team environment. \n\n\nOur tech stack: Solidity, Typescript, GCP\n\nCompensation and Benefits \n* Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options ($UMA and $ACX). Your token allocation may be utilized to govern our ecosystems, and may be eligible to earn rewards and grow over time as well. \n* Salaries for this role range from $130-200k (USD), \n* Will pay in stablecoins or fiat\n* Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)\n* 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in\n* At least two team wide offsites a year\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStudies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Risk Labs, the employing entity, is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. So,  if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align- we encourage you to apply anyways. We value you taking the chance. Risk labs will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\n\n\nOur values: \n1) We value each individual’s right to economic freedom\n2) We value openness, honesty, and directness\n3) We value integrity\n4) We value iterative learning\n5) We value taking smart risks. We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”. \n\n\nWhy do we love working at Risk Labs?\nWe are a group that's aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We're building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.\nUMA's optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world. Across is forging the path for intents-based solutions and settlements, creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life. \n\n\nStill want to know more?\n- Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. \n- Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly... to name a few.\n- Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness. \n- You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best!\n\n\nStudies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Risk Labs, the employing entity, is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. So,  if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align- we encourage you to apply anyways. We value you taking the chance. Risk labs will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\n\n\nOur values: \n1) We value each individual’s right to economic freedom.\n2) We value openness, honesty, and directness.\n3) We value integrity.\n4) We value iterative learning.\n5) We value taking smart risks.\n6) We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.\n\n\nWhy do we love working at Risk Labs?\nWe are a group that's aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We're building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.\nUMA's optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world. Across is forging the path for intents-based solutions and settlements, creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life. \n\n\nStill want to know more?\n- Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly... to name a few. \n- Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness. \n- You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Defi, Crypto, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote

\nWho is Risk Labs?\nRisk Labs is the foundation and core team whose mandate is to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.\n\n\nWhat is UMA?\nUMA's optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.\n\n\nWhat is Across?\nAcross is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO. Across' purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient. Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability, and are settled by Across. \n\n\nWe are looking for a data engineer to help design and scale our data infrastructure. We are a data-driven organization and view the data pipelines that influence these decisions as essential team infrastructure. Your role will include architecting and building that infrastructure as well as working with the data analysts who rely on the pipeline. You're a healthy mix of wanting to be in the weeds engineering through solutions, appreciate the value of project management and prioritization, while also seeing that you have a knack for leading people and teams to do their best work individually and as a collective. \n\n\nWe believe that many different candidates could be a good fit for this role. Maybe you have a background in building data pipelines at a TradFi or technology firm and looking for your first blockchain related job. Perhaps you have focused mainly on backend development but have a deep familiarity with how blockchain data is organized and processed. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who has deep expertise in building out ETL pipelines and working with data.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Indexing complex onchain data: Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access. Gas efficient protocols rely on indexing to keep user experiences snappy, pleasant, and cheap.\n* Data engineering: Design and develop large-scale data pipelines to provide the data which drives our understanding of users and our protocol’s real-world performance.\n* Code review and mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. As much of your day will be spent reviewing and designing code as it will be writing new code. We take pride in writing clean code.\n* Leading and Scaling teams: Manage priorities, scope deliverables, and project manage alongside various stakeholders. Be willing to think strategically about team coaching and structure, while also getting your hands in the weeds with data engineering work. \n* Data Analysis and Research: Translate business problems into scalable engineering solutions, based on a strong intuition and an ability to see beyond just technical requirements but a more holistic picture based on analysis, research, data, and the data engineering knowledge. \n* Product mindset: naturally curious to dive deep and understand what the business needs, collaborating with product management, data science, engineering, marketing, etc to drive impact through data\n\n\n\nReqquirements\n* 4+ years full-time experience in Data Engineering at a software, financial services, or related technology organization\n* 2+ years of experience with databases and data pipelines\n* 1+ years of experience managing people or teams (bonus if you’ve been part of leading teams through scale)\n* Outstanding critical thinking skills; \n* Low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong\n* Strong coaching and communication skills\n* Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and time management\n* Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and clean code \n* Passion for blockchain technology, cryptonomic protocol design, game theory, and decentralized finance\n* Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you\n\n\n\nCompensation and Benefits\n* Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options;\n* Salaries for this role range from $120-190k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem;\n* Will pay in stablecoins or fiat;\n* Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)\n* 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in\n* At least two team wide offsites a year\n\n\n\n\n\nStudies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Risk Labs, the employing entity, is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. So,  if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align- we encourage you to apply anyways. We value you taking the chance. Risk labs will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\n\n\nOur values: \n1) We value each individual’s right to economic freedom.\n2) We value openness, honesty, and directness.\n3) We value integrity.\n4) We value iterative learning.\n5) We value taking smart risks.\n6) We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.\n\n\nWhy do we love working at Risk Labs?\nWe are a group that's aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We're building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.\nUMA's optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world. Across is forging the path for intents-based solutions and settlements, creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life. \n\n\nStill want to know more?\n- Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly... to name a few. \n- Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness. \n- You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Defi, Crypto, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote