Aave is expanding its quantitative capabilities. We're hiring a senior Quant Strategist Engineer to join a growing team that operates at the intersection of engineering, product, and growth — owning the modeling, validation, and design work that underpins how Aave builds its products and how it grows them.
This isn't a pure research role and it isn't a pure engineering role. It's for people who can rigorously model on-chain economics, translate that work into product, protocol, and partner decisions, and ship.
How can you make an impact:
- Modeling and validating the economics of Aave products — including yield mechanics, rate dynamics, risk parameters, and scenario analysis
- Contributing to the design of new products and protocol mechanisms alongside engineering and product teams
- Supporting growth-side decisions where quantitative input is valuable — asset listings, incentive design, partner economics
- Building tooling and dashboards that make quantitative reasoning a shared capability across the organization
Let's connect if you have:
- Strong quantitative foundation — comfortable with stochastic processes, optimization, simulation, and statistical modeling
- Strong Python skills for modeling, simulation, and on-chain data analysis (pandas, numpy, scipy, web3.py)
- Deep DeFi fluency — you understand how lending markets, AMMs, and rate models actually work, and you've spent time tracing failure modes (liquidations, depegs, oracle issues, MEV)
- Engineering capability — you can prototype your own models, and read/contribute to Solidity well enough to collaborate meaningfully with smart contract engineers
- Communication — you can take quantitative work and explain it to non-quant stakeholders (founders, partners, growth, product) without losing rigor. You're comfortable in commercial conversations and can shape them with quantitative input rather than just answering questions.
- Bias to ship — you treat models as decision-support tools, not academic artifacts. You ship work that influences what gets built
Nice to have:
- Published research or writing on DeFi economics, market microstructure, or related areas
- Experience with formal methods, agent-based simulation, or mechanism design
- Background contributing to open-source DeFi protocols
- Experience operating in cross-functional environments where engineering and growth/BD intersect
Skills Required
- Strong quantitative foundation
- Deep DeFi fluency
- Engineering capability in Solidity
- Excellent communication skills
- Bias to ship models as decision-support tools
What We Do
Aave Labs is the original author and key contributor of the Aave Protocol and a software technology company founded by Stani Kulechov. The team builds blockchain-based products that power decentralized finance, including the Aave Protocol, the Aave-native stablecoin GHO, and Horizon, an institutional platform for borrowing against tokenized real-world assets. Aave is DeFi’s largest and most trusted lending protocol, where users can earn, borrow, save, and swap alongside millions of others worldwide.
