Data Analyst, Economics
Chainlink Labs helped pioneer decentralized finance and now works with the world's largest financial institutions to enable transactions across the tokenized asset economy. It builds and operates the Chainlink platform, serving financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is a company at the center of the shift of global finance onchain, working with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and leading DeFi protocols. The company employs a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts with deep experience in cryptography and decentralized systems, working toward building Chainlink into the global standard for onchain finance. Chainlink Labs operates a unified platform powering a global system of onchain finance across DeFi and TradFi, enabling significant transaction value across a multi-chain ecosystem, and has been battle-tested on mainnet for years with a strong security track record. Its clients and partners span capital markets, DeFi, gaming, and other major verticals, including partnerships with institutions such as ANZ Bank, DTCC, Swift, Sygnum, Fidelity International, and Fireblocks.
Skills
About the Role
You will combine economics, data science, and blockchain expertise to design, analyze, and operationalize economic models for production applications. You will build and maintain systems for parameterizing production systems, run models and simulations, optimize network incentives, and coordinate cross-functionally to implement data-driven solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in a quantitative role, particularly trading or quant research
- Deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
- Extensive financial modeling background including data engineering and model automation
- Strong SQL and Python skills
- Experience solving economic problems through statistical or econometric analyses
- Substantial data analysis or data science experience
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Preferred smart contract programming experience (Rust, Go, Solidity) or familiarity with smart contract code and dApp architecture
- Preferred Masters-level economics or finance background or multiple years of industry experience
- Preferred published research with an economics or crypto focus
Responsibilities
- Design and perform analyses to inform Economics and Executive Leadership decisions
- Build and maintain systems for parameterization of production applications
- Design novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
- Build models and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
- Design and parameterize trading systems
- Optimize parameters for production applications
- Operationalize processes and coordinate cross-functionally
- Engage with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to understand network dynamics
