Digital Asset Market Risk M S Researcher

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In this role, you will contribute to research and analysis in areas such as: - Characterizing risks associated with digital asset, token, and stablecoin design. - Assessing market structure, participant behavior, liquidity conditions, and sources of fragility across digital asset ecosystems. - Analyzing blockchain and market data to identify anomalous behavior, market manipulation, concentration, and emerging vulnerabilities. - Designing and building agent-based models, scenario-based simulations, and stress-testing frameworks for digital asset markets and protocols. - Developing novel empirical measures to evaluate market quality, systemic risk, contagion, resilience, and consumer protection concerns. - Applying advanced analytics and computational models to inform regulatory, supervisory, and risk management challenges facing MITRE sponsors.

Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor Degree in quantitative discipline such as Data Science, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Complex Systems Modeling, Computational Social Science; with significant experience in one or more of the following disciplines: game theory, experimental economics, behavioral economics, micro/macroeconomics, finance, financial engineering, web networking, software engineering, distributed computing. - Minimum 5 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 3 years with a Master’s degree, or a PhD with relevant hands-on experience with decentralized banking ecosystem. - Willingness to adapt, learn new methods, and contribute across a range of sponsor-driven problem sets in digital asset markets, financial systems, and emerging risk analysis. - Experience developing research questions, testing hypotheses, and working in open-ended analytical environments. - Familiarity with computational modeling, simulation, statistical analysis, or applied quantitative research. - Ability to work collaboratively with government sponsors and multidisciplinary teams to understand complex challenges and evaluate solution options. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey technical findings in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all audiences, regardless of technical expertise. - Ability to take initiative, work independently, and be a collaborative teammate.

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site. - Salary compensation range: $124,400 - $155,500 - $186,600 Annual. - Commitment to Non-Discrimination: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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