Data Scientist, Gauntlet
$150-180k
Financial modeling & simulation platform for blockchains
Open for applications
Financial modeling & simulation platform for blockchains
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$150-180k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Gauntlet's mission is to bring trust to crypto, to drive understanding and participation in the financial systems of the future.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional experience
- Extremely clear and effective communication and client management skills
- Proven track record of drawing deep insights from complex datasets
- Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R)
- Ability to work highly independently working towards abstract goals
Desirable
- Experience working in the crypto industry is a plus but not required
- Enthusiasm for the space, especially DeFi, is very much desired
- Smart contract development experience (e.g. Solidity)
- Experience managing external client relationships
- Published or presented research in the space
What the job involves
- Perform in depth novel research into how to make premier DeFi protocols safer and more efficient through mechanism design, data analysis, and dynamic parameter optimization
- Take ownership of client engagements, scoping out work, managing client relationships, and delivering value to clients through your research and work
- Draft and write engaging research for public consumption both to grow Gauntlet’s Brand as well as to satisfy client requirements
- Build and deploy easy-to-understand and visually compelling dashboards for internal and external consumption
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Decentralized finance can be high-risk, and for a long time, it has lacked the asset management tools and resources of the traditional finance world. Gauntlet, a company founded by two former Wall Street and Uber veterans, solves this problem by acting as a DeFi quant platform.
The company's aim has been to bring financial modelling and simulation to the growing DeFi economy. This forward thinking has paid off, with Gauntlet now valued at around $1 billion and serving some of the world's biggest crypto protocols - a testament to the value of its modelling.
Despite existing in the increasingly competitive DeFi space, Gauntlet's impressive valuation and client roster is an indicator of its staying power. As more and more people make the shift from Wall Street to Web 3.0, the company should have no trouble finding new opportunity for growth. Recently, it unveiled "Gauntlet Applied Research", a new research division that will support DAOs in the research and resolution of pressing protocol challenges.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$23.8m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$13.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $44.6m
Company benefits
- Remote first - work from anywhere!
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
- Laptop, monitor, keyboard and mouse setup provided
- $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
- $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation
Company values
- Strong ownership - Awareness of knowing why you are doing something drives results
- Build trust through data and research - We continuously seek to develop novel insights to help us expand and improve our Product
- Drive clear value - We focus on solutions that work quickly but are also iterative
- Be open and honest, even when it is not easy - We ask people to speak up for what they believe in and what they think will move the company forward
- Intellectual curiosity and fearlessness - We are self-motivated to learn new things about the space and our part to play in it
- Hire and develop top talent - We want to work with exceptional individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds, skills, and experiences
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Founders
Tarun Chitra
(CEO)Was a Scientific Associate and Programmer at D. E. Shaw Research, before working in Quantitative Research & Development at Vatic Labs.
Rei Chiang
(CTO)Worked as a Quant Trader at Getco, and then as a Portfolio Manager at 3Red Trading. Was also a Senior Software Engineer at Uber.
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