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About the Role
Aave is seeking a Protocol Security Researcher to establish its internal protocol security function. This role involves smart contract security, protocol design, adversarial research, and AI-assisted review, focusing on assessing protocol changes, maintaining security context, and understanding risks from dependencies and integrations. The objective is to continuously enhance Aave's protocol risk assessment and reduction capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Review major Aave protocol changes before external audit or deployment
- Perform attacker-driven analysis of smart contracts, protocol mechanisms, and integrations
- Participate in design and architecture discussions to influence security-relevant decisions
- Identify risks in Aave-adjacent systems, including assets, bridges, oracles, adapters, and critical dependencies
- Contribute to AI-assisted security tooling and evaluate its effectiveness
- Translate review findings into reusable knowledge, invariants, assumptions, and testing or monitoring ideas
- Collaborate with monitoring and incident response teams on operational detection or response needs
- Assist external auditors by defining scope, known risks, and areas of concern
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant security experience
- Strong smart contract security background
- Ability to independently review complex codebases and reason about protocol-level failure modes
- Attacker mindset: ability to identify and articulate exploitation methods
- Strong understanding of DeFi mechanisms (lending, liquidations, accounting, oracles, collateral, governance, integrations)
- Evidence of actively using AI to improve security research, review quality, or review throughput
- Clear written communication skills for explaining risk, impact, uncertainty, and trade-offs
- Good judgment regarding severity, exploitability, and the significance of findings
Skills
- Smart contract security
- Protocol design
- Adversarial research
- AI-assisted review
- DeFi mechanisms
- Written communication
- Formal methods
- Fuzzing
- Invariant testing
- Custom security tooling
- Security review tool building
- Knowledge management
- Governance payloads
- Upgrade systems
- Permissioning
- Incident response
- Open-source security research
- Bug bounty hunting
- Vulnerability research
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of relevant security experience
About the Company
- Aave Labs aims to make financial services globally accessible, having built the Aave Protocol, the largest onchain lending market. They develop high-quality products to expand access to lending, credit, and savings worldwide.
- Their culture emphasizes building trusted products, maintaining a high bar for quality and craftsmanship, and turning complex technology into simple, reliable products for a global team. They operate with alignment, speed, long-term thinking, and lean, impact-focused teams.
Equal Opportunity
- Aave Labs celebrates diversity and welcomes individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, or wallet usage. As an equal opportunities employer, they are committed to everyone's potential to build, create, and inspire change, fostering a safe and valued environment for all.