Gauntlet

Gauntlet is a DeFi infrastructure and research company that provides quantitative risk management, simulation, and institutional yield products for crypto-native financial applications and protocols. Its public materials emphasize safer onchain yield, protocol optimization, and institutional capital deployment.

Software Development
51-200
Founded 2018

Description

  • Design, implement, simulate, deploy, and operate end-to-end vault strategies across lending, yield aggregation, structured products, RWAs, perpetuals, and other products.
  • Research strategy signals and optimize execution, gas-aware rebalancing, liquidity management, and duration management across tokens and chains.
  • Conduct due diligence on protocols, collateral assets, and chains, including solvency, oracle design, redemption mechanics, and liquidity depth.
  • Own strategy risk parameters, including supply caps, LLTV settings, concentration limits, VaR-based exposure models, and automated de-risking logic.
  • Build and validate integrations and adapters for lending markets, DEX aggregators, and bridges using forked-chain simulations.
  • Extend risk-monitoring and alerting systems, define escalation conditions, and participate in the on-call rotation.
  • Maintain accountability for strategy performance, safety, uptime, and recoverability in production.
  • Partner with growth, capital markets, and client teams to launch new vaults and strategies.

Requirements

  • Track record of building quantitative systems in production, such as algorithmic trading, portfolio optimization, market-making, or risk systems.
  • Typically 2–8 years of relevant experience, with emphasis on demonstrated work over tenure.
  • Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, and durable system design.
  • Applied quantitative skills in optimization, statistics, simulation, and validation against real-world data.
  • SQL proficiency and experience building or consuming data pipelines.
  • Experience debugging and operating live systems under pressure, with an understanding of production monitoring and recovery.
  • Clear technical communication skills.
  • Ability to work remotely within the contiguous United States or Canada.
  • DeFi experience with lending protocols, ERC-4626 vaults, AMMs, or oracle systems (preferred).
  • Solidity/EVM literacy, forked-chain simulation, onchain operations, TypeScript, modern data-stack tools, or volatile-asset risk modeling experience (preferred).

Benefits

  • $175,000–$200,000 base salary, plus on-target incentive compensation and equity.
  • Remote-first work from anywhere in the US or Canada.
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees.
  • Unlimited vacation and 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
  • $1,000 work-from-home stipend plus monthly internet, phone, and cellular reimbursement.
  • Fertility benefits.
  • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country office visits.

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