Quant Developer
Gauntlet provides institutional-grade vault curation and risk management services for DeFi protocols through quantitative optimization and simulation modeling.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Gauntlet
Gauntlet offers risk-adjusted DeFi yields through curated vault strategies and applied research services for blockchain protocols. The platform utilizes agent-based simulations, quantitative modeling, and real-time monitoring to optimize protocol parameters, manage market risk, and curate lending, restaking, and perpetual futures vaults across multiple blockchains. Gauntlet's infrastructure processes over 400 million data points daily to inform risk management decisions for protocols securing billions in total value locked.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Design, build, and operate onchain vault strategies from thesis and design through implementation, simulation, deployment, and live operation. Optimize execution and rebalancing, perform protocol and asset due diligence, own risk parameters, integrate protocols and chains, and monitor live strategies.
Requirements
- Track record of building quantitative systems that run in production, such as algorithmic trading, portfolio optimization, market making, or risk systems
- Typically 2–8 years of experience at a trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto-native company
- Strong Python and software-engineering fundamentals including testing and code review
- Applied quantitative skills in optimization, statistics, and simulation
- Comfort with SQL and building or consuming data pipelines
- Production ownership experience debugging live systems under pressure
- Clear technical communication
- Bonus: hands-on DeFi experience with lending protocols, ERC-4626 vaults, AMMs, or oracle systems
- Bonus: Solidity/EVM literacy, forked-chain simulation with Anvil, or non-EVM experience such as Solana
- Bonus: on-chain operational experience with multisig workflows, transaction signing infrastructure, and bridging
- Bonus: TypeScript and familiarity with BigQuery, Dagster, Hex, GCP, or Kubernetes
- Bonus: risk modeling experience for volatile or thinly traded assets, including VaR, liquidation modeling, and stress testing
Responsibilities
- Design and ship vault strategies from thesis and design doc through implementation, simulation, deployment, and live operation
- Optimize strategies through signals research, execution optimization, gas-aware rebalancing across tokens and chains, and liquidity and duration management
- Run protocol and asset due diligence, evaluating new protocols, collateral assets, and chains for inclusion in strategies
- Own risk parameters including supply caps, LLTV settings, concentration limits, VaR-based exposure models, and automated de-risking logic
- Integrate new protocols and chains by building and validating adapters for lending markets, DEX aggregators, and bridges
- Verify strategy behavior against forked-chain simulation before capital deployment
- Extend risk-monitoring and alerting systems and define paging conditions
- Participate in the on-call rotation for owned strategies
- Partner with growth, capital markets, and client teams on new vault and strategy launches
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere in the US and Canada
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country office visit perk
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees
- $1,000 work-from-home stipend
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave for 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation
- Equity in the company