Technical Recruiter

About the role

The owns the end to end lifecycle of hiring elite engineering talent in service of the company's mission to establish standards in quantitative analysis and optimization within decentralized finance. This individual is responsible for evaluating senior candidates with the rigor required to ensure that Gauntlet attracts builders capable of thriving under intense analytical pressure and complex problem solving. They act as a strategic partner to hiring managers, translating abstract hiring needs into precise and compelling role profiles that reflect the realities of building institutional grade vaults for decentralized finance. The role directly informs how Gauntlet scales its teams to manage market risk, enhance growth trajectories, and guarantee economic safety for protocols that handle the majority of spot trading, borrowing, and lending across the DeFi ecosystem. Success in this position requires driving rigorous hiring standards while maintaining a deep understanding of crypto culture and the expectations of top technical decision makers who operate in a remote first environment. The Technical Recruiter synthesizes candidate data to clarify tradeoffs between experience and vault requirements, ensuring that the talent pipeline supports Gauntlet's research driven approach to risk management. Ultimately, this position is integral to building the teams that shape the economic backbone of major crypto networks through disciplined, research informed hiring.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Map senior engineering demand in close collaboration with growth and risk leads to translate business objectives into precise hiring strategies.
• Coordinate interview workflows from application intake through structured evaluation cycles to ensure a consistent and high quality candidate experience.
• Conduct technical screens that assess protocol understanding and analytical thinking, focusing on how candidates approach problems related to onchain systems.
• Champion Gauntlet research among candidates to align their expectations with the complexity and risk adjusted goals of vault strategies.
• Schedule intensive assessments with engineering leaders across multiple time zones, balancing operational constraints with the need for thorough evaluation.
• Synthesize candidate profiles to clarify tradeoffs between experience and vault requirements, enabling hiring managers to make informed decisions.
• Own offer negotiation for critical hires to secure top technical decision makers while maintaining alignment with Gauntlet's compensation framework.
• Maintain pipeline health by tracking conversion metrics and refining sourcing channels to support both high volume and specialized searches.
• Evaluate candidates who handle complex risk models and onchain systems, ensuring they meet the high bars required for work in decentralized finance.
• Communicate effectively with engineers about intricate vault architectures, demonstrating the technical fluency necessary to discuss risk, yield, and optimization.
• Manage high volume searches while preserving precision and thorough documentation, ensuring that no detail is overlooked in the evaluation process.
• Support the mission of driving adoption and comprehension of the financial systems of the future by recruiting individuals who share a discipline for data guided decisions.
• Engage with candidates who value complex, intellectually demanding work and who can contribute to building vaults that deliver risk adjusted DeFi yields at scale.
• Uphold Gauntlet's standards of size carefully, stress routinely, and unwind decisively by hiring talent that reinforces these principles.
• Ensure that the label equals the package equals the contents, maintaining predictability and reliability in every hire.

Requirements

You bring 3-5 years of technical recruiting experience within crypto markets, demonstrating a sustained commitment to this specialized field.

You possess deep familiarity with Morpho, Drift, Symbiotic, and Aera protocols, including their risk models and incentive structures.

You evaluate candidates who handle complex risk models and onchain systems, assessing both technical aptitude and judgment.

You thrive in settings where data guides hiring decisions and strategy, using metrics to refine sourcing and selection processes.

You communicate effectively with engineers while discussing intricate vault architectures, showing comfort with technical depth and abstraction.

You manage high volume searches while maintaining precision and thorough documentation, balancing speed with accuracy.

You understand the demands of roles responsible for constructing institutional grade vaults that deliver risk adjusted onchain yields at scale.

You are comfortable operating within a remote first organization based primarily in New York City, with clear expectations around availability and collaboration across distributed teams.

Nice to have

Experience publishing research that informs risk models and alerts, demonstrating an ability to contribute to the body of work that ranks among the most cited resources regarding DeFi in both industry and academic settings.

Practical notes

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