Data Scientist, Data Quality and Benchmarking

About Us 

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.

Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked among Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology, Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more at chain.link or chainlinklabs.com.

About The Role

• We are looking for a data scientist who understands financial markets to build real-time pricing systems that produce high-integrity references prices across thousands of assets. As a member of this team, you’ll design the models and detection logic that keep those prices trustworthy under stress.

Your Impact

• You’ll build real-time pricing systems.

• You’ll model complex, adversarial markets to understand where risk originates.

• When incidents occur, you’ll lead the data forensics (pre/post-trade analysis, benchmark vs. pool price deltas, liquidity gaps), quantify user impact, and ship fixes that measurably reduce recurrence.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of core DeFi primitives and how they generate on-chain signals.

• Oracle literacy: how on/off-chain price feeds are constructed (CEX/DEX sourcing, outlier trimming, medians/TWAPs), and common failure modes (staleness, rubber-banding/instability, flatlining, thin-liquidity manipulation, flash-loan driven spikes).

• On-chain data fluency: reading EVM logs/traces, ABIs and token standards (ERC-20/721/1155), identifying swaps/transfers/liquidations in event streams, and understanding subgraph/indexing patterns.

• Blockchain fundamentals that impact alerting: block production/finality/reorgs, mempool dynamics, gas markets, and chain-specific latency characteristics that influence MTTD/MTTR and false positives.

• Market microstructure awareness: liquidity depth, slippage, pool imbalance, funding rates/open interest (for perps), and how these drive benchmark construction and deviation alerts.

Preferred Requirements

• Hands-on with Chainlink data products (Data Feeds/Mercury/Streams/CCIP) and oracle attack surfaces; prior incident response or post-mortem work on price/peg/latency events.

• Ability to read simple smart contracts (Solidity/Rust) to validate event schemas; experience operating against major RPC providers and with indexing stacks (subgraphs, BigQuery public chains).

• Experience designing anomaly detection for financial time series and standing up SLO-driven alerting with Prometheus/Alertmanager/Grafana/Flink + on-call tools (PagerDuty).

• Python/SQL with web3 libraries (web3.py/ethers), ABI decoders; Dune/Flipside/Covalent/BigQuery; Kafka/stream processing. Portfolio showing dashboards/alerts for protocol health, price benchmarks vs. pool prices, and data-quality detectors (staleness/flatline/latency).

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