Senior Security Researcher, Hexagate
Alterya by Chainalysis is an AI-powered crypto fraud prevention tool designed to safeguard customers from authorized push-payment (APP) fraud and secure platforms with advanced threat intelligence.
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About Alterya by Chainalysis
Alterya by Chainalysis connects crypto fraud across financial identifiers to block scams instantly. It safeguards customers from authorized push-payment (APP) fraud and secures platforms with AI-powered threat intelligence. The service detects and blocks fraudulent payments before funds leave a customer's account, monitors over $8B in monthly transactions, and protects over 100M users. It helps businesses grow by reducing false declines and increasing approval rates, thereby building customer trust and ensuring compliance with fraud management regulations. Alterya provides 360° protection from scams and money mules by automatically preventing payments to scammers, identifying fraudulent accounts during KYC processes, linking scam activity across networks with reliable intelligence, and tracking fraudulent activity on the platform.
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About the Role
You'll join a small, agile security research team working on real-time security solutions that protect billions of dollars in the Web3 space. You'll design, implement, and improve exploit detection models and frameworks, while becoming an expert on bleeding-edge web3 technologies. You'll write excellent code as an integral part of engineering efforts, solve sophisticated technical problems, and help make hard things work. You'll collaborate closely with a fast-moving, best-in-class team, taking ideas from design through proof of concept to production.
Requirements
- Proven experience in research in highly technical environments / low level R&D
- Ability to excel in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing requirements
- Previous experience in software development or R&D style teams
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and improve exploit detection models and frameworks
- Be an expert on bleeding-edge web3 technologies
- Write excellent code and be an integral part of engineering efforts
- Solve sophisticated technical problems and "make hard things work"
- Work in a small, agile, fast-moving team