Quantitative Analyst : Lido Finance

We are looking for a hands-on Quantitative Analyst to help the Lido Ecosystem Foundation and the Lido DAO Treasury make sharper, data-driven treasury, liquidity, and risk decisions across on-chain and off-chain venues. You’ll blend markets knowledge with rigorous modeling to improve asset allocation, design smarter liquidity mechanisms, and support day-to-day liquidity operations across EVM ecosystems.

Key Scope

• — Asset allocation & treasury research: Contribute to quantitative frameworks and dashboards that improve asset allocation for the Foundations and to support DAO proposals (and their operationalization) regarding Lido DAO Treasury asset diversification.
• — Vault research & advisory: Provide research and advisory support to curators of Lido-affiliated vaults, including drafting analytical notes, risk/return modeling, and monitoring of current vault allocations.
• — Treasury management: Support the development of an asset allocation model for the Lido DAO Treasury and support treasury management efforts of the Lido Labs and Lido Ecosystem Foundations.
• — Liquidity modeling: Model stETH liquidity across on-chain AMMs, RFQ/MM venues, and centralized exchanges; quantify slippage, depth, and execution quality; stress test scenarios.
• — Market structure & LP management: Support negotiation of centralized-exchange liquidity provision agreements; monitor and report KPIs.
• — On-chain liquidity operations: Implement/support liquidity management across L2s/L1 and other EVM chains (bridging, rebalancing, routing).
• — Mechanism & tooling design: Prototype and evaluate improved mechanisms for liquidity provision (e.g., a liquidity buffer for the Lido Core protocol with dynamic fee structure) and collaborate with engineering to ship production-grade tools.
• — Risk, monitoring & reporting: Build automated risk metrics, alerting, and weekly/monthly reports for stakeholders; communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• — Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics/Finance, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
• — 0-4 years of full-time professional experience, with some experience in financial services (e.g., buyside, sellside, risk management, market making, treasury, fintech, or crypto).
• — Proficiency in Python, SQL, version control (git) and statistical modelling; ability to write clean, production-ready analyses.
• — Strong understanding of (crypto) market microstructure and portfolio/risk concepts.
• — Genuine interest in crypto/digital assets and on-chain market structure.
• — Comfort collaborating with both technical and non-technical internal (engineering, business development, finance) as well as a variety of external stakeholders.

Nice to have

• — Experience with the general DeFi landscape, DeFi/AMM models, on-chain analytics.
• — Experience writing queries for and building dashboards for onchain analytics on the Dune Analytics platform.
• — Familiarity with EVM concepts, onchain data, bridging/L2 ecosystems, and basic solidity literacy (reading contracts, event decoding).
• — Practical experience with dashboarding (preferably Python-based frameworks) and data engineering basics; some experience with basic CI/CD workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions).

Key Factors

• — Organization: Lido Ecosystem Foundation (working closely with Lido Labs Foundation and contributing to the Lido DAO)
• — Compensation: USD $120,000-$140,000 base (12-month contract) + performance-based component
• — Experience: 0-4 years full-time professional experience
• — Location: Globally remote (option for hybrid work in Zug / CH)