Quant Developer

MLabs; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits fully paid

WFH stipend

Internet & phone allowance

Unlimited vacation

Parental leave 12 weeks

Fertility benefits

Incentive compensation potential

Company retreats

Job summary

MLabs is hiring a senior quantitative strategist to design, code, deploy, and own vault strategies in production. You will work on end‑to‑end ownership from thesis to live operation, applying rigorous testing and risk controls.

Work across lending, yield aggregation, RWAs, and cross‑chain adapters; you will backtest, simulate, and monitor live performance, safety, and uptime. This remote‑first role offers competitive base pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits, with on‑call rotations and

Qualifications

• 5+ years building quantitative systems in production (trading/fintech/crypto).
• Strong Python and software-engineering fundamentals with production-grade code.
• Proven ability to own end-to-end strategies from research to deployment.
• Experience with SQL and data pipelines.
• Comfort with DeFi concepts and risk modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship vault strategies from thesis to live operation.
• Optimize strategies with signals research and gas-aware rebalancing.
• Perform due diligence on protocols, assets, and chains.
• Own risk parameters and automated de-risking logic.
• Integrate new protocols and adapters; validate via forked-chain simulations.
• Monitor systems and participate in on-call rotations.
• Support launches with growth and client teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

On-call experience

Quantitative skills

Communication

DeFi familiarity

Solidity/EVM literacy

Tools

BigQuery

Dagster

Hex

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.