DeFi Vault Operations & Research Specialist (Asset Management)
About Hyperithm
Hyperithm is Asia's leading provider of cryptocurrency financial services, built by a team of world-class engineers.
- Best-in-class team: a very high density of talent, made up of engineers, traders, researchers, VC investment professionals, and legal/finance/accounting specialists from leading universities and companies in Korea and abroad
- Best-in-class technology: designs and develops its own advanced trading systems and financial models
- Best-in-class investors: more than KRW 20 billion raised cumulatively from Samsung, Kakao, Naver, Hashed, GS Group, VIP Asset Management, Coinbase, and others
- Core service: cryptocurrency financial services for institutional investors
- Global business: more than 9 years of stable management of capital from major institutional investors in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other markets beyond Korea
- Solid footing: registered Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP), a robust track record of more than 9 years, and a strong institutional network in Korea and Japan
About the DeFi Team
The DeFi team generates returns through a variety of on-chain trading strategies, built on a deep understanding of blockchains and DeFi protocols. You will work alongside outstanding engineering colleagues in a culture where individual contributions are rewarded fairly.
Responsibilities
- Technical and qualitative analysis of DeFi projects (especially the Morpho ecosystem)
- Vault strategy design, rebalancing, and risk management, plus development of the automation bots that support them
- Yield monitoring and data-driven decision support
- Detecting and responding to issues through smart contract reviews
- Collecting web3 metrics and building dashboards
Requirements
- Strong understanding of, and passion for, the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem
- Ability to understand the basic structure of Solidity contracts and analyze code
- Ability to write web3 scripts in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages
- Logical, data-driven analytical thinking
- Ability to read technical documentation in English
- Candidates who have all of the above, or who can compensate for gaps with other strengths
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to deploy contracts through hands-on Solidity development
- Hands-on experience using major DeFi protocols such as Morpho and Aave
- Experience with on-chain data analysis tools (Dune, Arkham, etc.)
- Experience analyzing on-chain data on non-EVM chains (Solana, Sui, etc.)
- Experience in risk management or DAO operations
- Business-level spoken English
Required Application Materials
- Resume
- Evidence of DeFi capability: (1) [Required] a document describing your own DeFi experience in detail (e.g., yield farming, arbitrage); (2) [Optional] a blog, social media account, blockchain wallet address, or similar
Hiring Process
- Document screening → Take-home assignment → First interview (technical) → Second interview (culture) → Offer
- A reference check may be conducted before the final offer.
- Some steps may be skipped or simplified depending on experience and background.
- Please remove or mask sensitive information such as national ID numbers and current/desired salary before submitting.
- Application documents may only be submitted as PDF files or URLs.
Working Conditions
- High base salary guaranteed
- Industry-leading annual performance bonus based on company profits
- Stock options for those who demonstrate outstanding growth and high performance
Work Environment
- Flexible working hours by team
- Generous lunch/dinner allowance (lunch allowance up to KRW 20,000)
- Unlimited snack bar and coffee
- Support for personal profile photo shoots
- Birthday and holiday gifts
- Cross-office work support at the Tokyo headquarters
- Workshops and internal networking programs (Mingling Day)
- Participation in the government worker vacation support program
- Annual comprehensive health check-up and personalized supplements
- Employee investment fund
- Education expense support of up to KRW 1 million per year
- High-spec MacBook provided
- Full support for the latest AI work tools: ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Pro, Gemini Advanced, NotebookLM Plus, Claude Code Max, Cursor Team, and others provided to everyone (individual AI tool requests welcome)
- Beyond the benefits above, we continue to introduce new programs so that employees can focus entirely on their work.
