Full-Time

Quant Developer

Gauntlet Networks

Gauntlet Networks

51-200 employees

Provides DeFi analytics and economic simulations

Compensation Overview

$175k - $200k/yr

+ OTE + Equity

Remote in USA + 4 more

More locations: Remote in Canada | San Francisco, CA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA

Remote

Remote within the United States and Canada; occasional in-person retreats.

Category
Quantitative Finance (1)
Required Skills
Python
SQL

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Requirements
  • A track record of building quantitative systems that run in production — algorithmic trading, portfolio optimization, market making, or risk systems at a trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto-native company. This is often 2–8 years of experience, but we weight what you've built over years on a résumé.
  • You write the code behind your strategies. Strong Python and solid software-engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, and the judgment to build durable abstractions rather than one-off scripts. This is a hands-on, quantitative role — not a discretionary trading seat.
  • Applied quantitative skills: optimization, statistics, and simulation, and the instinct to validate models against real data before trusting them.
  • Comfort with data infrastructure: SQL and experience building or consuming data pipelines.
  • Production ownership: you've debugged live systems under pressure and understand that a strategy managing other people's money has to be correct, monitored, and recoverable.
  • Clear technical communication.
Responsibilities
  • Design and ship vault strategies: take a strategy from thesis and design doc through implementation, simulation, deployment, and live operation — RWAs, leveraged lending, yield aggregation, cross-protocol allocation, perpetuals, prediction markets, and new product types we haven't built yet.
  • Optimize strategies: signals research, execution optimization, gas-aware rebalancing across tokens and chains, liquidity and duration management.
  • Run protocol and asset due diligence: evaluate new protocols, collateral assets, and chains for inclusion in strategies — solvency mechanics, oracle design, redemption paths, liquidity depth, and more.
  • Own risk parameters: supply caps, LLTV settings, concentration limits, VaR-based exposure models, and automated de-risking logic that pulls positions when conditions deteriorate.
  • Integrate new protocols and chains: build and validate adapters for lending markets, DEX aggregators, and bridges; verify strategy behavior against forked-chain simulation before capital touches it.
  • Monitor what you build: extend our risk-monitoring and alerting systems, define the conditions that page someone, and participate in the on-call rotation for the strategies you own.
  • Support launches and clients: partner with growth, capital markets, and client teams on new vault and strategy launches.
Desired Qualifications
  • Hands-on DeFi experience: lending protocols, ERC-4626 vaults, AMMs, or oracle systems — as a builder or a sophisticated user.
  • Solidity / EVM literacy: reading protocol contracts, forked-chain simulation (anvil), or writing adapters; non-EVM experience (e.g., Solana) also valued.
  • On-chain operational experience: multisig workflows, transaction submission and signing infrastructure, bridging.
  • TypeScript, and familiarity with a modern data stack (e.g., BigQuery, Dagster, Hex, GCP/Kubernetes).
  • Experience with risk modeling for volatile or thinly-traded assets: VaR, liquidation modeling, stress testing.

Gauntlet Networks builds tools for DeFi risk analytics and economic simulations used by protocols, networks, and financial institutions. Its platform runs economic models and stress tests to help clients optimize financial strategies and manage risk, delivering insights through dashboards and reports. Revenue comes from platform subscriptions and consulting services. The company differentiates itself by focusing on solving complex DeFi economic problems with specialized simulations and analytics, offering tailored guidance across multiple protocols and networks. Its goal is to improve adoption, stability, and understanding of decentralized finance by providing rigorous analysis and practical risk-management tools.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$169.6M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • April 27, 2026 Lista DAO made Gauntlet curator for four BNB Chain vaults.
  • August 2026 curated-vault TVL concentration favors Gauntlet, with top curators controlling most capital.
  • SBI’s July 2026 financing funds expansion beyond DeFi into institutions and on-chain treasuries.

What critics are saying

  • March 22, 2026 Resolv’s USR exploit exposed Gauntlet-advised treasuries to remediation headaches.
  • May 7, 2026 layoffs cut roughly 30 workers, signaling pressure on growth and execution.
  • A single mispriced vault can trigger losses, client defections, and existential trust collapse.

What makes Gauntlet Networks unique

  • Gauntlet curates $1.5B+ vault TVL and $35B+ mandates across DeFi protocols.
  • Its June 25, 2026 Elwood integration sells institutional-grade risk metrics with live vault access.
  • July 9, 2026 SBI Holdings led Gauntlet’s $125 million Series C.

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Benefits

Remote first

Regular in-person company retreats & cross-country "office visit" perk

Medical, dental & vision premiums

Laptop, monitor, keyboard & mouse setup provided

$1,000 WFH stipend upon joining

$100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses

Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, & cellular data

Unlimited vacation

100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks

Fertility benefits

Opportunity for incentive compensation

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

9%
Fortune
Jul 9th, 2026
DeFi veteran Gauntlet raises $125 million from Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings | Fortune

The Japanese conglomerate has made bets on other crypto protocols, including the lender Morpho and the blockchain Arc.

DefiDraft
Apr 29th, 2026
Lista DAO and Gauntlet launch four lending vaults for better risk management.

Lista DAO and Gauntlet launch four lending vaults for better risk management. Lista DAO, a decentralized finance protocol for liquid staking and lending on BNB Chain, has announced a partnership with Gauntlet, a crypto-native risk management platform. The goal is to improve security and capital efficiency across Lista Lending's vaults. Gauntlet becomes official vault curator. Gauntlet now acts as an official vault curator on Lista Lending. Gauntlet is known in DeFi for its risk management work - over $1.5 billion in vault TVL has been curated, and more than $35 billion is under its risk management mandates. Gauntlet supports the design and ongoing optimization of lending vaults, which covers risk controls, yield strategies, and user protections. Lista DAO shared the news on its official X account. Four vaults now live. Under this alliance, four vaults are now available. These include the Gauntlet $USDT Vault and three co-curated vaults for $BNB, U, and $USD1. The Gauntlet $USDT Vault offers $6.95 million in liquidity across more than 30 markets. Gauntlet handles all parameters - risk configurations, market allocation, and exposure limits - using its quantitative models. For the co-curated vaults, $BNB vault has 311 million liquidity, U Vault has 69 million, and $USD1 has 138 million. Moving toward long-term liquidity growth. The partnership is more than just a typical deal. Each vault combines Gauntlet's risk framework with Lista's lending infrastructure, all built on BNB Chain. Both platforms hope to strengthen vault curation and encourage long-term liquidity growth. This move also helps bring traditional asset management into Web3, with the DAO protocol relying on specialized firms like Gauntlet. The partners aim to manage vaults precisely according to their desired standards.

Synthetix
Apr 4th, 2024
USDC & SNX LP Incentives on Base

The Synthetix Treasury, in partnership with Gauntlet, will allocate $50,000 in monthly USDC incentives to boost the Synthetix V3 Pool on Base.

Medium
Apr 26th, 2023
Improved VaR Methodology | by Gauntlet | Gauntlet | Apr, 2023 | Medium

Gauntlet is excited to announce a major upgrade to its risk metrics which will allow Gauntlet to more accurately and holistically quantify protocol risks.

Medium
Jul 14th, 2022
Gauntlet launches Synthetix Risk Dashboard

Gauntlet is excited to announce that Gauntlet has launched the Synthetix Risk Dashboard.