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title: 'Quant Developer at Gauntlet'
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# Quant Developer at Gauntlet

- **Company:** Gauntlet
- **Location:** New York, NY / San Francisco, CA / Los Angeles, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/gauntlet/4fa821d9-324f-465e-bf6a-b6f5eb9fa1f3

## Job description

You will design, build, and operate the strategies behind one of the largest asset managers in onchain finance. Gauntlet serves $1.5B+ in client TVL, and the vaults that hold it run on strategies that quant developers on our team build, ship, and stand behind. This is not a research seat where models get handed off to someone else's pipeline — you design the strategy, write the code, deploy it, and own it in production. If you want your models allocating real capital onchain within weeks of joining, read on.

## About Gauntlet

Gauntlet builds the financial systems of the future. While much of onchain finance is focused on point solutions, we operate across the entire stack to offer best-in-class vault products. Today we serve over $1.5B in client TVL across some of the largest fintechs/neobanks, protocols, exchanges, and capital allocators in crypto — and, increasingly, traditional asset management. Our team brings together traditional finance and crypto-native expertise to deliver durable, sophisticated products for institutional clients moving onchain.

## The role

Depending on your background and interests, you'll join one of our vault strategy teams. Our strategies span lending and credit curation, cross-chain yield aggregation, structured products, RWAs, and more. Teams own the full strategy lifecycle: research and protocol due diligence, strategy design and backtesting, allocation and rebalancing engines, onchain execution and optimization, and 24/7 monitoring of live positions. You own strategies end-to-end and are accountable for their performance, safety, and uptime.

## What you'll do;

- 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.

## What you bring;

- 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.

Bonus points

- 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.

Who thrives here;

- Wants end-to-end ownership — research, code, deployment, and the pager — not a hand-off between research and engineering.

- Comfortable that crypto markets don't close. Strategy owners take on-call seriously, and the occasional market-event night is part of the job; we staff and rotate to keep it sustainable.

- Operates well in ambiguity: can take "we should have a strategy for X" and return a scoped design, not a list of questions — and is comfortable in a fast-moving space where priorities and team structure evolve.

- Holds a genuine risk view and voices it — including "we shouldn't do this" when the analysis says so.

- Pragmatic about shipping: balances rigor against client timelines without cutting corners on safety.

- Naturally curious about digital assets and DeFi. Deep crypto experience is not required — curiosity and strong quant fundamentals are.

## Benefits & perks;

- Remote first — work from anywhere in the US & Canada

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

- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees

- $1,000 WFH stipend

- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data

- Unlimited vacation

- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks

- Fertility benefits

- Opportunity for incentive compensation

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application. The national pay range for this role is $175,000 – $200,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits, and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. #LI-Remote

## About Gauntlet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gauntlet provides quantitative risk management and yield optimization infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125M led by SBI Holdings, closed July 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA (with remote options and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Tarun Chitra (CEO) and Rei Chiang (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: DeFi / Blockchain / Quantitative Risk Management / Asset Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – DeFi protocols, crypto exchanges, wallets, asset issuers, financial institutions
- **Mission**: “Driving adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future” by applying rigorous quantitative simulation and optimization to DeFi

## Products & Services
- **[Gauntlet Vaults](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)**: Full-stack, self-custodial yield strategies for institutions, rebalancing across lending, restaking, and multi-strategy vaults. Integrates with apps via APIs.
- **[Risk Management Platform](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about)**: Model-driven risk monitoring and simulation for protocols, covering over 400 million data points daily across a dozen L1s/L2s.
- **[Applied Research](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about)**: Published 40+ research papers (1,000+ citations) on crypto-native economics and risk, partnered with Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, Decibel, and more.
- **[Partner Solutions](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)**: Embedded yield for wallets (e.g., Privy, KAST) and treasury management (e.g., Utila, SCRYPT).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total Value Locked (TVL) in Gauntlet vaults: $1.3 billion (self-custodial)
  - Client Assets Protected: $42 billion
  - Assets under vault management: $1.6 billion+
  - 150+ institutional clients
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investor in Series C: SBI Holdings [$125M, July 2026](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)
  - Early backers include Paradigm, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures (inferred from earlier rounds, not explicitly listed in provided sources; we only have Series C disclosed)
  - Key partners: Morpho, Penfle, Aera, Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, Privy, KAST, Utila, SCRYPT
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Closed $125M Series C in July 2026, led by SBI Holdings, signaling strong institutional interest
  - Processed a $775M supply event in 10 days with full APY recovery (Oct 2025)
  - Expanded from pure risk management into yield vaults; now powering 500K+ users via KAST neobank

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quantitative rigor**: Founders bring deep experience from HFT, physics simulations, and self-driving vehicle marketplace modeling, applied to DeFi.
- **Proven track record**: 8+ years of managing risk for the largest DeFi protocols with no major capital loss events (across multiple market cycles).
- **Full-stack offering**: Combines risk management, yield optimization, and onchain infrastructure (via Aera) – rare in the industry.
- **Institutional-grade security**: Multi‑layer security for both onchain and offchain surfaces, audited by top firms (implied by “institutional-grade” on homepage).

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Series C led by SBI Holdings (Japan) indicates a push into Asian institutional markets.
- **Embedded yield**: Partnering with wallets (Privy) and neobanks (KAST) to bring DeFi yield to mainstream users.
- **Deepening protocol relationships**: Continued applied research and risk management for major DeFi primitives (Compound, Uniswap, Morpho).
- **Scale infrastructure**: Growing data pipeline (400M+ data points/day) and supporting more L1/L2 chains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Relentless focus” on quantitative optimization and rigorous research – a team of data scientists, Solidity engineers, economists, and HFT veterans from top firms and universities.
- **Remote & Office**: Fully remote-friendly with hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive salary, full benefits, and gym membership coverage. [gauntlet.network/careers](https://gauntlet.network/careers/)
- **Note on hiring**: Gauntlet uses AI tools to assist in resume screening but emphasizes human oversight in final decisions.

## Sources
1. [gauntlet.network/about](https://gauntlet.network/about/) – Founders, history, background
2. [gauntlet.network/careers](https://gauntlet.network/careers/) – Culture, benefits, remote policy
3. [jobs.lever.co/gauntlet](https://jobs.lever.co/gauntlet) – Current openings, AI hiring disclosure
4. [gauntlet.xyz/about](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about) – Detailed metrics, partners, research papers
5. [gauntlet.xyz](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/) – Corporate homepage, Series C announcement, vault data

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