Crypto Economics Researcher

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About the role

  • Crypto Economics Researcher at Avalanche Foundation focusing on economic strategy, protocol design, and ecosystem growth. Conducting empirical research and providing actionable recommendations for blockchain ecosystems.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct rigorous theoretical and empirical research on blockchain ecosystems, market dynamics, incentives, and network sustainability.
  • Contribute to protocol design, evaluation, policy, and improvements based on research.
  • Build models, datasets, and analytical frameworks that help evaluate strategic and economic tradeoffs.
  • Analyze on-chain, market, and ecosystem data to generate decision-ready insights.
  • Translate complex research into clear recommendations, actions, and knowledge resources.
  • Stay at the forefront of cryptoasset research.

Requirements

  • A quantitative background in economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or another related field.
  • Strong empirical research and modeling skills, including but not limited to a mix of; structural estimation, causal inference, time-series analysis, machine learning, asset pricing models, simulation methods, mechanism design, market microstructure, and game theory.
  • 3+ years of experience in an applied economics, quantitative research, data science, or related analytical role.
  • Experience building data-driven research products, analytical frameworks, models, and tools that inform strategy, investment, product, or policy decisions.
  • Proficiency and demonstrative experience with Python and SQL.
  • Familiarity with crypto, blockchain ecosystems, DeFi, tokenomics, staking, or digital asset markets is preferred.
  • Excellent written communication skills and analytical judgment. (We care about rigorous thinking, but also care about producing work that helps real decisions get made)
  • Comfort owning and addressing ambiguous, open-ended problems from end to end.

Benefits

  • Full autonomy—real ownership of your work, not just a ticket queue.
  • Small team, high impact. What you build directly shapes ecosystem strategy.
  • Remote-first, async-friendly culture.
  • AI-forward engineering culture—we actively use and invest in AI tooling to ship faster

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$170,000 - $185,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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