Senior Data Scientist

Unchain Data; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mysten Labs is seeking a Senior Data Scientist focused on DeFi and stablecoins to advance on-chain analytics and measurement frameworks for the Sui ecosystem.

You will build dashboards, analyze liquidity and activity, and collaborate with product, engineering, and partnerships to quantify protocol launches and stablecoin adoption.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and visualization skills, with a deep desire to communicate clearly and captivatingly.
• Hands-on experience with on-chain data (Dune, Flipside, Allium, or raw node/indexer data).
• Familiarity with DeFi primitives and key metrics (TVL, volume, LP economics, lending utilization, mint/redeem activity).
• Interest in DeFi, stablecoins, and on-chain financial infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build dashboards that drive understanding of DeFi protocols and stablecoin activity for PMs, engineers, Partnerships, and leadership.
• Run analyses on liquidity, trading volumes, lending utilization, holder behavior, and stablecoin velocity.
• Develop measurement frameworks for DeFi protocol health, wash trading detection, and stablecoin adoption quality.
• Collaborate with data and engineering teams to set new standards for DeFi and stablecoin measurement.
• Partner with BD to measure impact of integrations with major DeFi protocols and market makers.
• Ensure data processing jobs run reliably in a lightweight environment.

Skills

SQL

Data Visualization

On‑chain Data

DeFi Knowledge

Indexer Data

Tools

Dune

Flipside

Allium

Job description

About Us

Mysten Labs believes that decentralized and open protocols are the bedrock of the internet of value. We are creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

The Role

The data science team at Mysten Labs is looking to hire a Senior Data Scientist focused on DeFi and stablecoins, two of the fastest-growing and most consequential areas of the Sui ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of product analytics, on-chain measurement, and market structure research, with a mandate to deepen our understanding of how liquidity, lending, DEX activity, and stablecoin flows behave on a high-performance, object-centric blockchain.

This role requires existing web3 experience — you should already be comfortable navigating on-chain data, DeFi protocols, and the broader crypto ecosystem. Backgrounds in quantitative finance, trading, market making, exchanges, or fintech analytics are highly valued and will help you hit the ground running. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, and partnerships to conceptualize, measure, and report on DeFi protocol launches, stablecoin adoption, market maker performance, and broader ecosystem behaviors. The work spans descriptive dashboards, deep-dive research, and entirely new measurement frameworks for a rapidly evolving asset class.

Responsibilities

• Build dashboards that drive understanding of DeFi protocols and stablecoin activity on Sui for PMs, engineers, Partnerships, and the executive leadership team.
• Run analyses on liquidity, trading volumes, lending utilization, holder behavior, and stablecoin velocity to identify high-impact opportunities for Mysten Labs and ecosystem partners.
• Develop measurement frameworks for evaluating DeFi protocol health, wash trading detection, real vs. incentivized activity, and stablecoin adoption quality.
• Collaborate with the data and engineering teams to set new standards for DeFi and stablecoin measurement across the industry.
• Partner with BD and partnerships to measure the impact of integrations with major DeFi protocols, stablecoin issuers, and market makers.
• Make data processing jobs run reliably in a lightweight, scrappy environment.

Requirements

• A deep interest in DeFi, stablecoins, and the role of on-chain financial infrastructure in daily life.
• Strong SQL and visualization skills, with a deep desire to communicate clearly and captivatingly.
• Hands-on experience working with on-chain data (e.g., Dune, Flipside, Allium, or raw node/indexer data).
• Familiarity with DeFi primitives and key metrics (TVL, volume, LP economics, lending utilization, mint/redeem activity).
• Strong attention to detail and a desire to work on data analysis as a collaborative discipline across data, engineering, product, partnerships, and marketing teams.
• Familiarity with concepts like volume quality, LP returns, peg stability, mint/redeem flows, and cross-chain bridging.

Nice to Have

• Experience with market microstructure, quantitative finance, or trading analytics.
• Experience writing stable and maintainable analytics engineering pipelines, particularly in dbt or similar frameworks.
• Comfort orchestrating jobs against high-volume on-chain data.