• Design, test, and deploy production-grade DeFi strategies • Lead research team and build models, run simulations, and translate ideas into strategies • Maintain a hypothesis pipeline across LP/CLMM, perps/options, basis/funding, lending/borrowing, yield curves, and cross-venue/cross-chain flows • Build and run robust backtests and event-driven sims; define objective functions, capacity, and sensitivity analyses • Write execution-ready strategy specs and prototype production code • Set inventory/leverage limits, liquidity/impact budgets, and encode checks and circuit breakers • Define real-time and post-trade dashboards and establish thresholds • Express strategies as agent policies/reward functions and contribute datasets • Track microstructures, new primitives, and cultivate relationships for early access • Produce research memos, runbooks, and present results to stakeholders