Gauntlet is hiring a Technical Recruiter in Operations — New York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on jobs.lever.co: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry.
As of November 2025, Gauntlet manages over $2B in vault TVL, and optimizes risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL. We continually publish cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institutions — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject.
As a company, we build institutional-grade vaults that deliver risk-adjusted DeFi yields at scale, powered by automated risk models and off-chain intelligence. Gauntlet curates strategies across Morpho, Drift, Symbiotic, Aera and more, with >$2B in vault TVL and a growing suite of Prime, Core and Frontier vaults.
Our mission is to drive adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future. We operate with a trader’s discipline and a risk manager’s skepticism: size carefully, stress routinely, unwind decisively.
We’re seeking a Technical Recruiter who can identify, attract, and close top-tier engineering talent in crypto. We want to hire more talent into a company where rigor, depth, and ownership matter.
Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry.
As of November 2025, Gauntlet manages over $2B in vault TVL, and optimizes risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL. We continually publish cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institutions — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject.
As a company, we build institutional-grade vaults that deliver risk-adjusted DeFi yields at scale, powered by automated risk models and off-chain intelligence. Gauntlet curates strategies across Morpho, Drift, Symbiotic, Aera and more, with >$2B in vault TVL and a growing suite of Prime, Core and Frontier vaults.
Our mission is to drive adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future. We operate with a trader’s discipline and a risk manager’s skepticism: size carefully, stress routinely, unwind decisively.
We’re seeking a Technical Recruiter who can identify, attract, and close top-tier engineering talent in crypto. We want to hire more talent into a company where rigor, depth, and ownership matter.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Technical Recruiter as described in the posting:
- Own sourcing, outreach, screening, interviews, and closing for technical roles (e.g., quantitative developers, protocol researchers, full-stack developers, among other teams
- Build and maintain diverse, high-quality pipelines across multiple functions
- Drive an exceptional candidate experience from first touch to offer acceptance
- Leverage on-chain reputation tools, GitHub activity, DAO contributions, Crypto Twitter/Farcaster/Discord communities, open source communities, hackathons, L2 ecosystems and crypto-specific hiring channels
- Work directly with engineering leadership & hiring managers to gain a deep understanding of their hiring needs
- Advise hiring teams on best practices for conducting interviews and making informed, data-driven decisionsMaintain structured hiring pipelines, interview scorecards, and ATS hygeine
- Implement structured evaluation frameworks that align with Gauntlet’s standards
- Proactively suggest improvements to hiring processes, outreach copy, interview structure, and branding across technical roles
Qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 5+ years of experience recruiting for technical roles, ideally in crypto, protocol development, or deep-tech environments
- A demonstrated ability to hire senior engineers, quant researchers, or other highly specialized profilesAn understanding of core crypto concepts, especially those in DeFi
- Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate technical products and value propositions to candidates
- The ability to operate autonomously, prioritize effectively, and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
Bonus Points
Additional experience noted as a plus:
- An established presence or network within crypto communities—Twitter, GitHub, research DAOs, Discord engineering groups
- Experience hiring in high-growth or remote-first environments
- An understanding of TradFi & web2 hiring needs that translate to Web3: economic modeling, incentive optimization, quantitative funds or protocol research workflows to give some examples
- Global talent acquisition experience across engineering and research domains in multiple time zones
Benefits and Perks
What the posting highlights about the offer:
- Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees and dependents
- $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
- $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation
Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.
The national pay range for this role is $135,000 - $155,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.
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