DeFi Researcher
Paxos Labs provides enterprise infrastructure for platform-native onchain financial products. Its solutions help platforms issue branded stablecoins, move stablecoins across chains, and activate yield on digital asset balances.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Paxos Labs
Paxos Labs offers a configurable, compliance-focused stack for embedding digital asset utility and monetization into platforms. Its products include Mint for issuing and managing branded stablecoins, Transit for stablecoin conversion and cross-chain movement with automated routing and compliance screening, and Earn for yield programs on stablecoin balances through DeFi strategies or institutional lending. Paxos Labs also presents USDG0 as a flagship stablecoin fully backed by USDG, a regulated asset issued by Paxos. The organization serves enterprise platforms, users, treasuries, institutional counterparties, integrating wallets, and partners.
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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