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Head of DeFi

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Ambush
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Job Description

About us

Ambush is an AI company developing AI research & products that accelerate onchain adoption.

We’re building Web3’s first autonomous AI agents to simplify wealth creation & onchain safety.

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We’re a lean & hyper performance-oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we run head-first towards seemingly impossible ideas. Our entire team is crypto-native & we have a shared North Star of solving web3’s hardest challenges.

Our team is led by one of crypto’s prominent anons, Psycho.

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About the role:

Have you ever referred to yourself as “terminally online”? If so, you may be a fit for this role :)

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We’re hiring a highly-technical onchain generalist to help lead the company’s long term DeFi / onchain strategy as we near the release of our upcoming onchain AI agent products. You can think of this role as a highly technical product owner; contributing to hands-on development as well as the greater strategy.

The ideal candidate is an onchain generalist that has technical hands-on experience with dapps at the blockchain level while being a DeFi power user themselves.

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You’ll enjoy strong autonomy & wear various hats that include:

  • Leading research efforts on technical DeFi initiatives within the company
  • Keeping a pulse on the latest DeFi trends to ensure our products stay ahead of the curve
  • Contributing to product roadmap & strategy for our onchain products
  • Working alongside our engineering team to assist with onchain technical decisions
  • This role is great for those with a strong technical onchain background that get easily bored in specialized roles, as you’ll be the glue between our product, research, & engineering teams.

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Requirements:

  • Strong technical experience in DeFi research or leading DeFi products
  • Experience using smart contract libraries such as viem or web3.js
  • Strong analytical & data-focused background, including but not bound to: SQL, Dune, Python, & similar
  • Good SecOps; understanding of best security practices for smart contracts & onchain dapps
  • Terminally online; web3 native who keeps up with the latest onchain advancements
  • Strong writer that can convert DeFi research in to digestible public-facing content
  • General interest / experience with AI agents or applied AI & ML

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Not required, but a strong bonus:

  • Leadership experience at a research firm, venture/trading firm, or high growth web3 company
  • Prior commercial experience as a smart contract dev or security auditor

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Why join Ambush?

  • Industry leading pay: strong base salary + uncapped profit share + equity
  • Lean & high-impact team; we hate bureaucracy & will not grow past ~10 people
  • One of the fastest growing AI companies in crypto
  • Proven leadership team with several acquisitions under their belt

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Internal full-time hires only, no contractors or agencies

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