About the Role
Altitude Development Partners is hiring a Risk Analyst for our DeFi hedge fund: someone who deeply understands both decentralized finance and traditional finance mechanics.
The core of the job is to take apart the fund's strategies and positions, work out where and under what conditions we could lose money, and propose concrete, actionable ways to manage and mitigate that risk.
Key Responsibilities
- Position breakdown: Dissect each strategy and portfolio position to uncover latent risks, edge cases, and conditions where losses could occur.
- Correlation & concentration analysis: Assess shared sources of risk across positions, tail-risk events, and market conditions that could impact multiple strategies simultaneously.
- Scenario stress-testing: Model severe market shocks: violent price dislocations, interest rate spikes, liquidity dry-ups, oracle failures, or heavy withdrawal cascades.
- Liquidity & exit modeling: Accurately estimate time-to-exit under distress and quantify expected liquidation or slippage losses.
- Risk parameters & controls: Propose position limits, leverage constraints, real-time monitoring metrics, and programmatic circuit breakers to cut or exit exposure.
- Clear team communication: Deliver crisp, actionable risk assessments and decisions to portfolio managers and engineers.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Grounding in financial mechanics: Clear mastery of yield sources, interest rate curves, cost of capital, leverage, collateralization ratios, and liquidation cascades.
- Deep understanding of DeFi risk: Protocol insolvency risks, stablecoin depeg mechanics, smart contract vulnerabilities, oracle latency/manipulation, and protocol composability dependencies.
- Portfolio-level perspective: You evaluate the aggregate risk across the entire book rather than isolating positions in a silo.
- Data & scenario fluency: You translate theoretical vulnerabilities into concrete probabilities, numbers, and parameters the team can act on.
- Actionable decision-making: Your deliverables are pragmatic decisions and risk bounds, not merely passive observations.
Location & Work Environment
- Workplace: Fully Remote (global team).
- Focus: DeFi Hedge Fund Portfolio Risk Management.
How to Apply
To apply, send an email directly to careers@altitudedp.com with
- A brief note explaining why this role fits your background and experience
- Details or links to relevant risk modeling, financial analysis, or research you have conducted
- Your CV, resume, or LinkedIn profile
Official careers listing: altitudedp.com/careers/risk-analyst
About Altitude Development Partners
Altitude Development Partners is a venture studio, technology studio, and dedicated decentralized finance hedge fund founded in 2018. Built around systems engineering, quantitative research, and production-grade software delivery, the firm designs and executes systematic trading strategies across decentralized protocols and traditional financial markets. Altitude specializes in quantitative yield modeling, protocol and MEV analysis, liquidity dynamics, and automated risk systems, spanning from raw on-chain data pipelines to defended smart contract execution. Operating as a globally distributed team with high ownership standards, Altitude unites quantitative researchers, protocol engineers, and systems developers who build institutional DeFi and financial technology infrastructure.