Staff Quant Strategist Engineer

Aave Labs; Eu; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aave Labs is looking for a Senior Quant Strategist Engineer in Eu, Normandie to expand its quantitative capabilities. This role combines modeling, validation, and design work to support product development and growth initiatives.

The ideal candidate should have a strong quantitative foundation, deep DeFi fluency, and engineering capability to contribute meaningfully to cross-functional teams. You will be instrumental in modeling the economics of Aave products and guiding critical product decisions.

Qualifications

• Comfortable with stochastic processes, optimization, simulation, and statistical modeling.
• Understanding of lending markets, AMMs, and rate models, including failure modes.
• Ability to prototype models and collaborate with smart contract engineers.

Responsabilités

• Modeling and validating the economics of Aave products.
• Contributing to product and protocol design.
• Supporting decisions with quantitative input.

Connaissances

Strong quantitative foundation

Deep DeFi fluency

Engineering capability

Communication skills

Bias to ship

Description du poste

About The Role

Aave is expanding its quantitative capabilities. We're hiring a senior Quant Strategist Engineer to join a growing team that operates at the intersection of engineering, product, and growth — owning the modeling, validation, and design work that underpins how Aave builds its products and how it grows them.

This isn't a pure research role and it isn't a pure engineering role. It's for people who can rigorously model on-chain economics, translate that work into product, protocol, and partner decisions, and ship.

How Can You Make An Impact

• Modeling and validating the economics of Aave products — including yield mechanics, rate dynamics, risk parameters, and scenario analysis
• Contributing to the design of new products and protocol mechanisms alongside engineering and product teams
• Supporting growth‑side decisions where quantitative input is valuable — asset listings, incentive design, partner economics
• Building tooling and dashboards that make quantitative reasoning a shared capability across the organization

Let's Connect If You Have

• Strong quantitative foundation — comfortable with stochastic processes, optimization, simulation, and statistical modeling
• Deep DeFi fluency — you understand how lending markets, AMMs, and rate models actually work, and you've spent time tracing failure modes (liquidations, depegs, oracle issues, MEV)
• Engineering capability — you can prototype your own models, and read/contribute to Solidity well enough to collaborate meaningfully with smart contract engineers
• Communication — you can take quantitative work and explain it to non-quant stakeholders (founders, partners, growth, product) without losing rigor. You're comfortable in commercial conversations and can shape them with quantitative input rather than just answering questions.
• Bias to ship — you treat models as decision-support tools, not academic artifacts. You ship work that influences what gets built

Nice To Have

• Published research or writing on DeFi economics, market microstructure, or related areas
• Experience with formal methods, agent-based simulation, or mechanism design
• Background contributing to open-source DeFi protocols
• Experience operating in cross-functional environments where engineering and growth/BD intersect

Haven't quite met all the criteria? Let's not miss out on the chance to speak. Whilst you might not meet every single requirement, you might bring other, more exciting skills to the companies!

Equal Opportunities Statement

Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.

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