Quantitative Developer Ellipsis Labs · United States Mid $180k - $250k USD

Rustify; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellipsis Labs in the United States is seeking a Quantitative Developer - Risk to join our high-performance DeFi team. You will own risk across the platform, set parameters, and help list new assets while ensuring safety and compliance with the protocol.

This role emphasizes building scalable risk tooling and a margin engine, with opportunities to influence fast-growing assets and markets on Solana-like infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Strong risk management experience for on-chain/off-chain systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining a margin engine.
• Ability to scope and list new assets with risk considerations.
• Proficiency in building scalable risk tooling and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the core on-chain margin engine and offchain risk services.
• Own and maintain risk parameters across our supported assets, ensuring they reflect current market conditions and platform risk tolerance.
• Support the end-to-end process of listing new assets, including scoping and implementing the unique risk considerations each asset requires.
• Design and build the risk framework for emerging asset classes.
• Build tooling and infrastructure that make risk management scalable.

Job description

# Quantitative DeveloperEllipsis Labs · United States · Mid · Onsite · USD 180k - USD 250kView & Apply## About Ellipsis LabsEllipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.## About the RoleEllipsis Labs is seeking a Quantitative Developer - Risk to join our team. You'll take ownership of how we manage risk across the platform, from setting the parameters that keep our markets safe to building the infrastructure that lets us list new assets faster and support entirely new asset classes.## Key Responsibilities:* Maintain and improve the core on-chain margin engine and offchain risk services* Own and maintain risk parameters across our supported assets, ensuring they reflect current market conditions and platform risk tolerance* Support the end-to-end process of listing new assets, including scoping and implementing the unique risk considerations each asset requires* Design and build the risk framework for emerging asset classes* Build tooling and infrastructure that make risk management scalable