As a Staff Quant Strategist Engineer, you will model and validate Aave's products' economics, design new protocol mechanisms, and contribute to growth-side decisions using quantitative insights.
About us
About the role
Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally?
We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech.
Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally
Our cultureWe build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.
We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it.
We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable.
We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.
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
Haven’t quite met all the criteria? Let’s not miss out on the chance to speak. Whilst you might not meet every single requirement, you might bring other, more exciting skills to the companies!
Equal opportunities statement:
Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.
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