Technical Recruiter
Gauntlet provides institutional-grade vault curation and risk management services for DeFi protocols through quantitative optimization and simulation modeling.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own full-cycle technical recruiting at Gauntlet, partnering with hiring managers, using crypto-native sourcing signals, maintaining structured hiring systems, and improving evaluation and recruiting processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, ideally in crypto, protocol development, or deep-tech environments.
- Demonstrated ability to hire senior engineers, quantitative researchers, or other specialized candidates.
- Understanding of core crypto concepts, especially DeFi.
- Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical products and value propositions.
- Ability to operate autonomously, prioritize effectively, and build stakeholder relationships.
- Established presence or network in crypto communities such as Twitter, GitHub, research DAOs, and Discord engineering groups.
- Experience hiring in high-growth or remote-first environments.
- Understanding of TradFi and web2 hiring needs relevant to web3.
- Global talent acquisition experience across engineering and research domains.
Responsibilities
- Own sourcing, outreach, screening, interviewing, and closing for technical roles.
- Build and maintain diverse, high-quality talent pipelines across multiple functions.
- Drive an exceptional candidate experience from first contact through offer acceptance.
- Leverage on-chain reputation tools, GitHub activity, DAO contributions, crypto communities, open-source communities, hackathons, and crypto-specific hiring channels.
- Partner with engineering leadership and hiring managers to understand hiring needs.
- Advise hiring teams on interviewing and data-driven candidate decisions.
- Maintain structured hiring pipelines, interview scorecards, and ATS hygiene.
- Implement structured evaluation frameworks aligned with Gauntlet’s standards.
- Improve hiring processes, outreach copy, interview structure, and employer branding.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere in the United States and Canada.
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country office visit perk.
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
- $1,000 work-from-home stipend upon joining.
- $100 monthly fitness reimbursement.
- 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.