Join a pioneering team shaping the future of institutional DeFi risk management. As a Risk Engineer, you'll play a central role in securing digital assets across decentralized protocols while enabling sustainable yield generation. This is a hands-on position where your work directly impacts the safety and performance of systems managing more than $1 billion in assets.
What You'll Do
- Evaluate DeFi protocols by analyzing smart contract audits, economic vulnerabilities, and governance structures to identify potential threats.
- Create advanced models to assess liquidity, forecast market impact, and define safe position thresholds across diverse protocols.
- Build and maintain automated monitoring systems that track key risk indicators like collateral health, liquidation levels, and protocol stability around the clock.
- Develop alerting pipelines capable of detecting and escalating critical events with sub-minute response times.
- Collaborate closely with engineering and execution teams to embed risk controls into deployment workflows and operational strategies.
What We're Looking For
- A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field.
- At least three years of experience in DeFi, quantitative finance, or risk modeling within fast-paced environments.
- Strong grasp of decentralized finance components—lending platforms, automated market makers, perpetual contracts, yield strategies, and liquidation processes.
- Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for building risk simulations, automation scripts, and querying on-chain data.
- Proven ability to design and deploy production-grade monitoring solutions with minimal oversight.
- Clear communication skills to translate technical risks for both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
Technology & Environment
You'll work with Python and TypeScript to develop risk tooling, analyze blockchain data, and integrate with live protocol metrics. This is a ground-floor role in a profitable, well-funded startup focused on real-world applications in DeFi.
Work Model
This is an onsite role requiring presence four days per week at one of our North American hubs. We value in-person collaboration to maintain alignment and velocity within our close-knit team.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base salary with performance incentives
- Token allocation grant as part of long-term participation
- Direct influence on institutional DeFi practices from day one
- Early access to emerging protocols and risk frameworks
- Freedom to shape risk strategy in a growing organization
