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Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $35 billion in customer TVL.
Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.
Gauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.
We are looking for engineers for a few projects! See below:
Pivot/Courier Services
We’re developing an algorithmic trading platform to optimize strategies Gauntlet oversees on-chain to capture opportunities across DeFi. We’re looking for a product-focused systems generalist to work with users to define requirements and build the system’s required components!
Data & Models
We develop & own the services that power Gauntlet’s platform, including all our model capture, infrastructure, deployments & tools to support & scale our systems!
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 $160,000 - $200,000 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.
Pond is pioneering blockchain’s foundational models by leveraging graph deep learning to predict on-chain behaviors and accelerate the development of AI-powered, crypto-native applications. Its solutions target key sectors including DeFi, social networks, trading, MEV, and security, utilizing an innovative, decentralized AI development process.
The technical team brings extensive expertise from leading graph AI companies such as WeChat, TigerGraph, and Yuga Labs. With a remarkable track record of over 40 publications in prestigious journals and conferences—such as IEEE, Nature, Harvard Business Review, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, and PNAS—the team is at the forefront of cutting-edge AI research and application.
Our $7.5M seed round is led by Archetype, with participation from Cyber Fund (Lido founder’s fund, which rarely invests directly, backed Solana pre-seed and Ethereum pre-ICO), Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Digital and Anagram (the fund of Solana’s president and former president of Polychain).
We have a 30+ wide range of angels in DeFi, MEV, social, security, and more including the co-founder of Near, the co-founder of ENS, CTO of Exo Labs, co-founders of Plume Network, COO of Matrixport, the Head of Market Research of Flashbots, the founder of Mamori, the founder of SEDA, former GP of Variant—Spencer Noon, the founder of Zerion, the founder of Nuffle, the founder of OpenGradient, and others.
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We are seeking a skilled and passionate Smart Contract Engineer to join our innovative blockchain team. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in developing and deploying smart contracts and be deeply familiar with blockchain technologies. As a Blockchain Smart Contract Engineer, your main task is to develop, test, and maintain smart contracts on different blockchains according to business needs.