[Hiring] Data Analyst, Economics @Chainlink Labs
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Role Description
Chainlink Labs is pioneering the world’s first fully sustainable and decentralized oracle network, and the Economics team is searching for a Senior Analyst to play a critical role in building it. This role will sit at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial innovation, and economic systems, and shape the future of decentralized economics.
As an analyst, you will combine economics, data science, and blockchain expertise to shape incentives, optimize network design, and influence the decision-making of our Economics and Executive Leadership teams. You will design, analyze, and operationalize economic models for production applications. You will collaborate across departments to bring innovative solutions from concept to production, ensuring economic soundness and scalability throughout.
This is a high-impact role, offering visibility and influence as you contribute to the development of the Chainlink network. If you’re a meticulous, creative, and motivated individual ready to solve complex economic problems through data-driven decisions in the rapidly evolving world of Web3, this is the role for you.
Your Impact:
• Designing and performing analyses that help the Economics and Executive Leadership teams make informed, data-driven decisions
• Building and maintaining systems for the parameterization of production applications
• Working on a wide array of blockchain economics projects, analyses, and systems, including:
• Designing novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
• Building models and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
• Designing and parameterizing trading systems
• Optimizing parameters for production applications
• Contributing to the design of Economics programs and applications
• Optimizing network incentives and systems by engaging directly with the Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics at the deepest level
• Meticulously operationalizing processes, and coordinating cross-functionally to implement them
This is both a highly technical and highly social role. You will have high visibility and a large impact on how Chainlink builds the world’s first fully sustainable decentralized oracle network.
Qualifications
• 5+ years experience in a quantitative role, particularly trading or quant research
• A deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
• Extensive financial modeling background, including data engineering and model automation
• Strong SQL and Python skills are mandatory
• Experience solving economic problems through statistical/econometric analyses
• Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience
• Meticulous attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
• Strong Economics and/or Finance background through Masters-level academics and/or multiple years of industry experience
• Strong organizational and coordination skills necessary to productionize/operationalize processes and applications
• Preferably smart contract programming experience (Rust, Go, Solidity), but familiarity with smart contract code and dApp architecture at a minimum
• Published research with an economics or crypto focus (e.g., papers on MEV or PBS, staking and slashing dynamics, node compensation, tokenomics, etc.)
Competencies
• You must be meticulous, creative, and hard-working
• You should be a curious, collaborative self-starter
• You’re ideally growth oriented, self-aware, and willing to be wrong
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via this form.
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Information collected and processed as part of your Chainlink Labs Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to our Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
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Role Description
Chainlink Labs is pioneering the world’s first fully sustainable and decentralized oracle network, and the Economics team is searching for a Senior Analyst to play a critical role in building it. This role will sit at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial innovation, and economic systems, and shape the future of decentralized economics.
As an analyst, you will combine economics, data science, and blockchain expertise to shape incentives, optimize network design, and influence the decision-making of our Economics and Executive Leadership teams. You will design, analyze, and operationalize economic models for production applications. You will collaborate across departments to bring innovative solutions from concept to production, ensuring economic soundness and scalability throughout.
This is a high-impact role, offering visibility and influence as you contribute to the development of the Chainlink network. If you’re a meticulous, creative, and motivated individual ready to solve complex economic problems through data-driven decisions in the rapidly evolving world of Web3, this is the role for you.
Your Impact:
• Designing and performing analyses that help the Economics and Executive Leadership teams make informed, data-driven decisions
• Building and maintaining systems for the parameterization of production applications
• Working on a wide array of blockchain economics projects, analyses, and systems, including:
• Designing novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
• Building models and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
• Designing and parameterizing trading systems
• Optimizing parameters for production applications
• Contributing to the design of Economics programs and applications
• Optimizing network incentives and systems by engaging directly with the Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics at the deepest level
• Meticulously operationalizing processes, and coordinating cross-functionally to implement them
This is both a highly technical and highly social role. You will have high visibility and a large impact on how Chainlink builds the world’s first fully sustainable decentralized oracle network.
Qualifications
• 5+ years experience in a quantitative role, particularly trading or quant research
• A deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
• Extensive financial modeling background, including data engineering and model automation
• Strong SQL and Python skills are mandatory
• Experience solving economic problems through statistical/econometric analyses
• Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience
• Meticulous attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
• Strong Economics and/or Finance background through Masters-level academics and/or multiple years of industry experience
• Strong organizational and coordination skills necessary to productionize/operationalize processes and applications
• Preferably smart contract programming experience (Rust, Go, Solidity), but familiarity with smart contract code and dApp architecture at a minimum
• Published research with an economics or crypto focus (e.g., papers on MEV or PBS, staking and slashing dynamics, node compensation, tokenomics, etc.)
Competencies
• You must be meticulous, creative, and hard-working
• You should be a curious, collaborative self-starter
• You’re ideally growth oriented, self-aware, and willing to be wrong
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via this form.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants
Information collected and processed as part of your Chainlink Labs Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to our Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
Apply Now
Apply Now