Senior Intelligence Analyst
Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform.
About Chainalysis
Chainalysis offers a blockchain data platform that utilizes sophisticated machine learning and proprietary architecture to handle extensive clustering heuristics, ingest data at scale, and ensure high data accuracy. The platform supports new blockchains and standard tokens automatically, providing comprehensive industry coverage. It simplifies tracing fund flows through complex transactions like bridges, mixers, and DEX swaps. The data provided by Chainalysis is court-admissible and has been instrumental in legal actions. The company provides global, 24/7 support with localized guidance and expertise in various threat typologies and advanced investigative techniques. Through its R&D initiative, Chainalysis Labs, the company continues to innovate and introduce new, unique features and capabilities in blockchain intelligence.
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About the Role
You'll collect, analyze, and produce intelligence across the crypto-services ecosystem, working at the hardest edges of attribution and acting as a force multiplier for the team. You'll design AI and automation that multiply the whole team's output, set the analytic standard, shape what the team collects, and level up the analysts around you. You'll join a fast-moving, globally distributed team of analysts collaborating across time zones, both async and in real time, holding each other to a high bar. You'll take ownership of attribution for the most complex, high-stakes parts of the ecosystem, mentor other analysts, contribute analyses that feed products and customers, and work toward becoming a certified cryptocurrency professional across all Chainalysis certifications.
Requirements
- Elite potential and a proven track record with exceptional aptitude, judgment, and work ethic
- 5+ years of strong analytic or investigative work, including leading hard problems end to end
- Strong research instincts and analytic rigor
- Initiative to set the agenda and drive what the team should be working on
- Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-moving space
- AI-forward instincts and ability to build automation to scale work
- Comfort working with data; blockchain forensics experience a plus
- Excellent writing and communication
Responsibilities
- Own attribution for the most complex, high-stakes parts of the ecosystem, and set the standard for how it's done
- Design and lead the AI/automation that scales attribution across the team
- Shape collection strategy — what data is needed and how to get it
- Mentor analysts and raise the team's tradecraft
- Contribute analyses and insights that feed products and customers
- Become a certified cryptocurrency professional across all Chainalysis certifications