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    Junior Data Engineer, Economics

    Chainlink Labs
    Remote
    Remote
    Junior
    Full Time
    about 1 month ago
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    Requirements

    • Deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
    • Strong foundation in Computer Science principles including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
    • Experience with data infrastructure design and implementation in cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
    • Experience with production-grade software engineering concepts (e.g. git, testing, containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code)
    • Strong SQL and Python skills
    • Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience
    • Meticulous attention to detail

    What You'll Do

    • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support Economics and Executive Leadership teams' data-driven decisions
    • Build and maintain production economics applications
    • Design novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
    • Build data pipelines, models, and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
    • Design and parameterize economics systems
    • Optimize parameters for production applications
    • Contribute to the design of Economics programs and applications
    • Engage with Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics
    • Operationalize processes and coordinate cross-functionally to implement them

    Nice to Have

    • Strong organizational and coordination skills to productionize and operationalize processes and applications
    • Strong Computer Science or related Engineering, Economics and/or Finance background through Masters-level academics and/or multiple years of industry experience
    • Proven interest in DeFi and staying current with new products and trends
    • Experience with LLM-based development tools, onchain data, and orchestration tools such as Airflow and DBT
    • Experience in data modeling and data warehousing concepts
    • Published research with an economics or crypto focus (e.g., papers on MEV or PBS, staking and slashing dynamics, node compensation, tokenomics)

    About Chainlink Labs

    Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance.

    San Francisco, CA
    500-1000
    Blockchain & Cryptocurrency