Company Overview:
Dialectic, a crypto-native organization of builders and capital advisors, is seeking a Data Science intern to join the team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing team, focused on investing in and building compelling software in emerging crypto and blockchain technologies. We produce outlier results through a series of diversified investment strategies in the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Job Summary:
We are offering a Data Science Internship for a person with strong skills who can perform deep quantitative analysis that informs capital deployment decisions and furthers our research into topics such as risk management, portfolio optimization, and market analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Sourcing, compiling, cleaning, and analyzing data across a range of markets.
• Analyze existing datasets to identify trends and biases.
• Demonstrating findings to the investment team and CIO through thoughtful data visualization.
• Building out and maintaining datasets of consolidated information, especially with respect to opaque markets.
• Tailor traditional portfolio optimization methods to a DeFi yielding book.
• Participate in the discussions of the investment committee about capital allocation decisions.
• Work closely with the Software team to automate data collection and analysis processes.

Key Requirements:

• Experience with machine learning & statistical analysis methods.
• Strong Interest in the Cryptocurrency and especially DeFi space.
• Background in finance or computer/data science with a deep understanding of financial markets.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, be independent and be flexible.
• Development skills in Python.
• Skills in other languages, such as Rust and Solidity, would be considered a strong asset.
• Knowledge of database software tools, quantitative analysis, and data visualization.
• An understanding of the crypto markets and the web3 industry.
• Ability to find and clean data with respect to opaque markets.
• Advanced data visualization skills would be considered a strong asset.
• Self-motivated, disciplined, and detail-oriented.

Benefits:
Dialectic offers an exceptional work culture:

• Dynamic and collegiality in a small team working in fields that are shaping the future of our society
• As a modern employer, we offer you contemporary working conditions, a lot of space to develop yourself alongside the company as well as exciting and challenging projects
• Compelling compensation, bonus, and participation opportunities
• Exposure to extremely talented people and very interesting clients who have unique investment profiles
• Supportive work and team atmosphere with flat hierarchies and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• Dialectic is an equal-opportunity employer with a strong diversity of ideas.

Company Overview: Dialectic, a crypto-native organization of builders and capital advisors, is seeking a senior-level investment professional to join the team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing team, focused on investing in and building compelling software in emerging crypto and blockchain technologies. We produce outlier results through a series of diversified investment strategies in the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Job Summary: We are offering a DeFi Engineer position for a person with strong quantitative and development skills and EVM-DeFi knowledge. The successful candidate should be able to analyse complex DeFi interactions at the smart-contract level, reverse-engineer the functioning of DeFi protocols and produce proof-of-concept code to illustrate the functioning of protocols, and ultimately integrate them in our onchain execution stack.

Company Overview:
Dialectic, a crypto-native organization of builders and capital advisors, is seeking a Developer intern to join the team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing team, focused on investing in and building compelling software in emerging crypto and blockchain technologies. We produce outlier results through a series of diversified investment strategies in the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Job Summary:
We are offering a Developer Internship focused on Blockchain Applications for a person with strong skills who can support development activities across our stack - building backend tooling, connectors to on-chain systems, and data pipelines that feed our DeFi yielding strategies and inform capital deployment decisions. This position is part of a small and dynamic team, with the ability to shape and impact technical decisions and direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop Backend Tooling and Services in Rust
• Work closely with the Yielding team to develop strategies
• Build connectors to Smart Contract systems
• Support the team with insights and best practices

Key Requirements:

• Software development experience, including in Rust
• Experience in the Ethereum ecosystem
• Experience with Solana VM and Rust-based smart contracts is a plus
• Familiarity with Rust Ethereum libraries (ethers, alloy, foundry)
• Entrepreneurial mindset - independent, flexible, and self-directed.
• Self-motivated, disciplined, and detail-oriented; strong work ethic and team player.
• Use of AI tools/knowledge of how to utilize them to maximize efficiency.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Solana VM and Rust-based smart contracts.
• Familiarity with Rust Ethereum libraries (ethers, alloy, foundry).
• Experience with machine learning and statistical analysis methods.
• Knowledge of database software tools, quantitative analysis, and data visualization.
• Solidity experience or smart-contract reading ability.
• Advanced data visualization skills.

Benefits:
Dialectic offers an exceptional work culture:

• Dynamic and collegiality in a small team working in fields that are shaping the future of our society.
• As a modern employer, we offer you contemporary working conditions, ample opportunities to develop alongside the company, and exciting and challenging projects.
• Compelling compensation, bonus, and participation opportunities.
• Exposure to extremely talented people and very interesting clients who have unique investment profiles.
• Supportive work and team atmosphere with flat hierarchies and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• Dialectic is an equal-opportunity employer with a strong diversity of ideas.

IMC has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into crypto and DeFi over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates, IMC provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols. IMC Zug is currently looking to expand its DeFi team, which builds the algorithms that support IMC's trading activities

The DeFi team is small and highly flexible. We need the flexibility to respond to the rapidly changing DeFi landscape. As a member of the DeFi team, you will get the opportunity to work on many different projects and shape your role to your talents. Your work will vary from improving existing trading strategies and algorithms to working on completely new solutions from scratch. All, while closely collaborating with team members.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate on developing our highly competitive trading algorithm and platform
• Design and implement state-of-the-art, industry-leading trade execution and connectivity solutions
• Research and analysis of Defi protocols using on chain data and trading strategies
• Stay on top of updates to Defi protocols

Your Skills and Experience: 

• Hard skill requirements:
  • Proficiency in applied mathematics, statistics, numerical modeling
  • Knowledge of cryptocurrency
  • Proficiency in one more blockchain-related programming languages such as golang, rust, solidity, move etc.
  • Comfortable in a Linux R&D environment, incl. git and related tools
  • Ability to research independently
  • Proficiency in English
• Nice to haves
  • Experience in blockchain analytics, DeFi protocols, MEV
  • In-depth knowledge of concrete blockchains on conceptual and/or programming level
  • Hands-on programming experience in a quantitative trading environment
  • Deep understanding of the EVM, and/or the technical underpinnings of other blockchain ecosystems
  • Smart contract design and development
  • Experience with cryptography libraries, digital signature, hash algorithms

Location and Office Culture

• IMC office in Zug, Switzerland
• Note that this is an onsite role, with some but limited flexibility for working from home
• You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities
• One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies
• We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one
• We promise you a flat structure and an open, collaborative culture that stimulates the sharing of ideas, knowledge and technology between our teams and offices