DeFi Researcher
Paxos Labs is the financial utility stack for digital assets, enabling platforms to embed yield, borrowing, and branded stablecoins into their user experience. It serves platforms and enterprises looking to activate and monetize digital assets natively, extending Paxos's regulated infrastructure onchain.
Funding
About Paxos Labs
Paxos Labs provides a complete stack to activate digital asset utility and monetization on client platforms through three core modules: Mint (branded stablecoin issuance, allowing platforms to issue, manage, and scale fully backed branded stablecoins native to their ecosystem), Earn (embedded yield infrastructure enabling users to put idle assets to work and access savings rates on dollar and stablecoin balances), and Borrow (embedded, transparent, risk-controlled credit markets integrated directly into platforms). The company emphasizes full economic control for its clients—platforms keep the brand, user experience, and economics while Paxos Labs provides the infrastructure—along with institutional trust derived from Paxos's regulated digital asset infrastructure, and speed to market with integrations that can go live in weeks. Paxos Labs primarily serves platform businesses seeking to embed onchain financial products such as stablecoins, yield, and credit directly into their offerings, and is backed by investors including Blockchain Capital, Maelstrom, Robot Ventures, and Uniswap.
Skills
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 (Lido, EtherFi, Kinetiq), AMMs (Uniswap, Balancer), lending protocols (Aave, Morpho Blue, Maple, Term Finance), perp DEXs (Hyperliquid, Lighter, GMX), and auctions/RFQs/routers (CoW Protocol, UniswapX, 1inch Fusion, Hashflow)
- Familiarity with data engineering
- Experience managing a book in TradFi or DeFi across equities, tokens, loan books, or other types of 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