DeFi Researcher
Institutional-grade infrastructure for embedded on-chain financial products, including branded stablecoin issuance, stablecoin movement, and yield activation.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Paxos Labs
Paxos Labs provides enterprise infrastructure that enables fintechs, enterprises, and crypto-native teams to build, launch, and scale embedded on-chain financial products. Its current platform supports branded stablecoin issuance through Mint, stablecoin orchestration across networks through Transit, and yield activation on stablecoin balances through Earn, with compliance, reserve, routing, monitoring, and configurable program controls.
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About the Role
You'll join a team building DeFi infrastructure that reimagines how on-chain liquidity strategies are handled. You'll research and apply extensive knowledge across TradFi and DeFi to execute state-of-the-art risk curation and yield optimization across the DeFi ecosystem. You'll work closely with DeFi engineers to manage yield generating opportunities, design algorithms, and build frameworks that keep users safe while maximizing returns. You'll monitor market data continuously, forecasting risk and designing triggers to capture opportunistic strategies or exit before black swan events hit the broader market.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of risk management, financial and statistical concepts to measure risk and optimal portfolio management
- Deep knowledge of DeFi protocols including liquid staking protocols, AMMs, lending protocols, perpetual DEXs, and auctions, RFQs, and routers
- Familiarity with data engineering
- Experience managing a book in TradFi or DeFi across equities, tokens, loan books, or other strategies
- Experience applying rigorous statistical methods to portfolio analysis
Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of yield generating opportunities across protocols and chains
- Collaborate closely with 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 and forecast risk
- Design triggers to enter opportunistic strategies or exit black swan events before the market
Benefits
- Opportunity to build innovative crypto solutions
- Work on projects with tangible impact on global finance
- Continuous learning and professional development
- Competitive salary and participation in ownership structures
- Dynamic, fast-paced work environment