Quant Developer

As a Quant Developer at mLabs, you design quantitative strategies, write the code, deploy it, and own it in production. You'll take strategies from thesis through live operation and be accountable for their performance, safety, and uptime. Depending on your background, you'll join one of our vault strategy teams working on lending and credit curation, cross-chain yield aggregation, structured products, RWAs, and more.

What you'll do

• Design and ship vault strategies: take a strategy from thesis and design doc through implementation, simulation, deployment, and live operation for RWAs, leveraged lending, yield aggregation, cross-protocol allocation, perpetuals, prediction markets, and new product types.
• Optimize strategies through signals research, execution optimization, gas-aware rebalancing across tokens and chains, and liquidity and duration management.
• Run protocol and asset due diligence: evaluate new protocols, collateral assets, and chains for inclusion in strategies, including solvency mechanics, oracle design, redemption paths, and liquidity depth.
• Own risk parameters: set supply caps, LLTV settings, concentration limits, VaR-based exposure models, and automated de-risking logic.
• Integrate new protocols and chains: build and validate adapters for lending markets, DEX aggregators, and bridges; verify strategy behavior against forked-chain simulation before capital touches it.
• Monitor what you build: extend risk-monitoring and alerting systems, define alert conditions, and participate in the on-call rotation for the strategies you own.
• Support launches and clients: partner with growth, capital markets, and client teams on new vault and strategy launches.

What you bring

• A track record of building quantitative systems that run in production, such as algorithmic trading, portfolio optimization, market making, or risk systems at a trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto-native company. We weight what you've built over years on a résumé.
• Strong Python and solid software-engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, and the judgment to build durable abstractions rather than one-off scripts.
• Applied quantitative skills: optimization, statistics, and simulation, with the instinct to validate models against real data before trusting them.
• Comfort with data infrastructure: SQL and experience building or consuming data pipelines.
• Production ownership: you've debugged live systems under pressure and understand that a strategy managing other people's money must be correct, monitored, and recoverable.
• Clear technical communication.

Nice to have

• Hands-on DeFi experience: lending protocols, ERC-4626 vaults, AMMs, or oracle systems as a builder or sophisticated user.
• Solidity or EVM literacy: reading protocol contracts, forked-chain simulation with anvil, or writing adapters; non-EVM experience such as Solana also valued.
• On-chain operational experience: multisig workflows, transaction submission and signing infrastructure, and bridging.
• TypeScript and familiarity with a modern data stack such as BigQuery, Dagster, Hex, or GCP/Kubernetes.
• Risk modeling for volatile or thinly-traded assets: VaR, liquidation modeling, and stress testing.

What we offer

• Base salary of $175,000-$200,000 plus On Target Earnings potential and company equity.
• Remote first: work from anywhere in the US and Canada.
• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country office visit perk.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees.
• $1,000 work-from-home stipend.
• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data.
• Unlimited vacation.
• 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks.
• Fertility benefits.
• Opportunity for incentive compensation.

About mLabs

mLabs builds vault strategies and quantitative systems for digital assets and decentralized finance. Teams own the full strategy lifecycle from research through live operation and 24/7 monitoring across multiple protocol types and chains.