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Protocol Risk Lead

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Role overview

Company Overview:Makina, a crypto-native organization of builders and DeFi leaders, is seeking a full-time Protocol Risk Lead. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing team focused on building trust-minimized infrastructure for the next generation of onchain strategies.

Makina introduces a novel framework for onchain asset management that addresses a significant gap in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. While DeFi has successfully replicated many traditional financial primitives, asset management remains underdeveloped, and sophisticated yielding strategies are not broadly available to users across the space. Makina provides a highly adaptable and secure architecture designed to facilitate a broad spectrum of strategies.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Protocol Risk Lead with strong onchain and DeFi analysis skills excited about contributing to a novel DeFi building block. This position offers an exciting role as part of a dynamic team, with the ability to shape and impact technical decisions and direction.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop a comprehensive framework to assess and monitor protocol wide risk
Conduct strategies analysis, review and risk scoring
Set up and maintain a robust monitoring system for the Machines running on Makina
Onchain DeFi risk analysis and monitoring
Interact and audit risk management framework of authorized operators
Research protocol exposure to individual protocols and tokens
Develop stress testing framework to model the resilience of the protocol to outlier events
Key Requirements:
In-depth understanding of DeFi protocols
Strong expertise in risk control and management
Proficiency in analyzing protocols across various risk categories (e.g., smart contract, economic, governance, etc)
Advanced proficiency in on-chain investigation tools (e.g., Etherscan, Nansen, Phalcon) and data tools (Dune, Subgraphs)
Entrepreneurial mindset with a capacity for independent and flexible thinking
Self-motivated, disciplined, and detail-oriented approach to work
Strong work ethic and team player
Great written communication and presentation skills
Nice to have:
Prior experience curating, operating or investing in DeFi strategies