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DeFi Vault Operations & Research Specialist (Asset Management)

Operations

Onsite · Seoul, KOR

Mid

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.

Company

Hyperithm is a Seoul-based provider of cryptocurrency financial services for institutional investors, operating CeFi and DeFi trading and asset management teams.

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