Staff Quant Strategist Engineer (DeFi)

TL;DR

Staff Quant Strategist Engineer (DeFi): Modeling and validating on-chain economic mechanics for the Aave Protocol with an accent on yield dynamics, risk parameters, and protocol growth. Focus on building simulation tools, translating quantitative research into product decisions, and collaborating with smart contract engineers to ship reliable financial products.

Location: Remote (US or EU)

Company

hirify.global is a leading developer of decentralized finance products, focused on building trusted, high-quality onchain lending markets that expand global access to credit and savings.

What you will do

• Model and validate the economics of Aave products, including yield mechanics, rate dynamics, and risk parameters.
• Contribute to the design of new products and protocol mechanisms in collaboration with engineering and product teams.
• Support growth-side decisions through quantitative analysis of asset listings, incentive design, and partner economics.
• Build tooling and dashboards to make quantitative reasoning a shared capability across the organization.
• Translate complex quantitative work into actionable insights for non-quant stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong quantitative foundation in stochastic processes, optimization, simulation, and statistical modeling.
• Strong Python skills for modeling and on-chain data analysis using pandas, numpy, and scipy.
• Deep DeFi fluency with experience in lending markets, AMMs, and tracing failure modes like liquidations and oracle issues.
• Engineering capability to prototype models and contribute to Solidity codebases.
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex quantitative concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Bias to ship and treat models as decision-support tools rather than academic artifacts.

Nice to have

• Published research on DeFi economics or market microstructure.
• Experience with formal methods, agent-based simulation, or mechanism design.
• Background contributing to open-source DeFi protocols.
• Experience operating in cross-functional environments intersecting engineering and growth.

Culture & Benefits

• Global, lean team focused on high-quality craftsmanship and long-term impact.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of engineering, product, and growth in a leading DeFi protocol.
• Collaborative environment that values rigorous modeling and practical, shippable results.
• Commitment to diversity and fostering a safe, valued working environment for all team members.