Quant Research Engineer - New Grad

The Gauntlet Emerging Talent Program is designed for new graduates eager to apply quantitative and technical skills to decentralized finance's challenges, providing hands-on experience in DeFi risk, optimization, and protocol design with mentorship from leading researchers and engineers. Responsibilities include transforming mathematical models into production code, building and optimizing vault strategies across multiple asset types, and conducting comprehensive risk assessment using statistical methods to evaluate liquidity risk and token depeg scenarios. Additional responsibilities involve designing and running controlled experiments to measure strategy performance, building data pipelines for strategy simulation, real-time monitoring, and automated trade execution, and creating monitoring systems with dashboards and alerts to track market changes and smart contract events. Moreover, it includes developing allocation recommendations with appropriate risk guardrails and rebalancing triggers, writing clear research documentation, and collaborating on public research and internal strategy memos.