Data Analyst, Economics

🕒 February 14

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Chainlink Labs

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🌐 Web 3

Finance • Fintech • Web 3

Chainlink Labs is a leading player in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. The company is pioneering the use of decentralized systems to facilitate onchain transactions for financial institutions and marketplaces. By collaborating with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols, Chainlink Labs is driving the transition to a tokenized asset economy and aims to become the global standard for onchain finance. With expertise in cryptography and a robust track record in security, Chainlink Labs provides a platform that powers a global system of onchain finance.

📋 Description

• You will serve two primary functions: (1) designing and performing analyses that help the Economics and Executive Leadership teams make informed, data-driven decisions, and (2) building and maintaining systems for the parameterization of production applications. • You will work on a wide array of blockchain economics projects, analyses, and systems, including: • Designing novel mechanisms and incentive schemes • Building models and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities • Designing and parameterizing trading systems • Optimizing parameters for production applications • Contributing to the design of Economics programs and applications • You will optimize network incentives and systems by engaging directly with the Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics at the deepest level. • You will meticulously operationalize processes, and coordinate cross-functionally to implement them. • This is both a highly technical and highly social role. You will have high visibility and a large impact on how Chainlink builds the world’s first fully sustainable decentralized oracle network.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience in a quantitative role, particularly trading or quant research • A deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives • Extensive financial modeling background, including data engineering and model automation • Strong SQL and Python skills are mandatory • Experience solving economic problems through statistical/econometric analyses • Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience • Meticulous attention to detail. • Strong organizational and coordination skills necessary to productionize/operationalize processes and applications. • Preferably smart contract programming experience (Rust, Go, Solidity), but familiarity with smart contract code and dApp architecture at a minimum • Published research with an economics or crypto focus (e.g., papers on MEV or PBS, staking and slashing dynamics, node compensation, tokenomics, etc.)

🏖️ Benefits

• All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. • Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST). • We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. • We encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. • We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.