Protocol Security Researcher DeFi & AI Review

Aave Labs; Asiago; In loco; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Aave Labs is seeking a Protocol Security Researcher to strengthen its internal security function, addressing smart contract security, protocol design, adversarial research, and AI-assisted review. The role involves evaluating major protocol changes before deployment, maintaining security context across deployed systems, and reasoning about risks from dependencies and integrations to continuously reduce protocol risk.

This position focuses on impact beyond traditional audits.

Competenze

• 5+ years of relevant security experience
• Strong smart contract security background
• Ability to independently review complex codebases and reason about protocol-level failure modes
• Attacker mindset: you can move from “this looks wrong” to “this is how it could be exploited”
• Strong understanding of DeFi mechanisms, including lending, liquidations, accounting, oracles, collateral, governance, and integrations
• Evidence that you are actively using AI to improve security research, review quality, or review throughput
• Clear written communication: you can explain risk, impact, uncertainty, and trade-offs to engineers and non-security stakeholders
• Good judgment about severity, exploitability, and when a finding matters

Mansioni

• Review major Aave protocol changes before external audit or deployment
• Perform attacker-driven analysis of smart contracts, protocol mechanisms, and integrations
• Participate in design and architecture discussions early enough to influence security-relevant decisions
• Identify risks in Aave-adjacent systems, including assets, bridges, oracles, adapters, and critical dependencies
• Contribute to AI-assisted security tooling and evaluate its effectiveness in real review workflows
• Turn review findings into reusable knowledge, invariants, assumptions, and testing or monitoring ideas
• Work with monitoring and incident response teams when review findings imply operational detection or response needs
• Collaborate with external auditors by helping define scope, known risks, and areas of concern

Conoscenze

Smart contract security

Threat modeling

Code review

DeFi familiarity

AI tooling in security

Written communication

Attacker mindset

Strumenti

Security tooling

Descrizione del lavoro

Aave Labs is seeking a Protocol Security Researcher to strengthen its internal security function, addressing smart contract security, protocol design, adversarial research, and AI-assisted review. The role involves evaluating major protocol changes before deployment, maintaining security context across deployed systems, and reasoning about risks from dependencies and integrations to continuously reduce protocol risk.

This position focuses on impact beyond traditional audits.