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Avalanche

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

🎮 Gaming

💰 $20M Venture Round - Avalanche on 2025-01

Crypto • Web 3 • Gaming

Avalanche is a high-performance, decentralized Layer 1 blockchain platform and ecosystem that enables builders to launch scalable, customizable sovereign chains and decentralized applications. It emphasizes fast finality, low fees, and native interoperability across purpose-built chains, and provides developer tooling, grant programs, wallets, and an AVAX token to power network operations. Avalanche serves use cases including DeFi, NFTs, gaming, institutional tokenization, and enterprise-grade blockchain deployments.

📋 Description

• Conduct rigorous theoretical and empirical research on blockchain ecosystems, market dynamics, incentives, and network sustainability. • Contribute to protocol design, evaluation, policy, and improvements based on research. • Build models, datasets, and analytical frameworks that help evaluate strategic and economic tradeoffs. • Analyze on-chain, market, and ecosystem data to generate decision-ready insights. • Translate complex research into clear recommendations, actions, and knowledge resources. • Stay at the forefront of cryptoasset research.

🎯 Requirements

• A quantitative background in economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or another related field. • Strong empirical research and modeling skills, including but not limited to a mix of; structural estimation, causal inference, time-series analysis, machine learning, asset pricing models, simulation methods, mechanism design, market microstructure, and game theory. • 3+ years of experience in an applied economics, quantitative research, data science, or related analytical role. • Experience building data-driven research products, analytical frameworks, models, and tools that inform strategy, investment, product, or policy decisions. • Proficiency and demonstrative experience with Python and SQL. • Familiarity with crypto, blockchain ecosystems, DeFi, tokenomics, staking, or digital asset markets is preferred. • Excellent written communication skills and analytical judgment. (We care about rigorous thinking, but also care about producing work that helps real decisions get made) • Comfort owning and addressing ambiguous, open-ended problems from end to end.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full autonomy—real ownership of your work, not just a ticket queue. • Small team, high impact. What you build directly shapes ecosystem strategy. • Remote-first, async-friendly culture. • AI-forward engineering culture—we actively use and invest in AI tooling to ship faster