Data Scientist — Blockchain Intelligence
TLDR
Develop and productionize clustering and attribution heuristics on billions of on-chain transactions to surface risk for compliance and investigations.
Our tech stack
You don't need to have used all of these, but here's what you'd be working with day to day:
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Databricks — our lakehouse and processing backbone. Large-scale on-chain datasets are transformed and modeled here via Spark and SQL; most heuristics run as Databricks jobs against billions of transactions.
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Kafka — real-time ingestion of on-chain and transaction data. New blocks and events stream in continuously, so a lot of our work is designed to run incrementally rather than as one-off batch jobs.
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Python — the primary language for everything from exploratory analysis to production heuristics and pipeline code.
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TigerGraph — our graph database, where addresses, transactions, and entities live as a network. Clustering, traversals, and relationship queries (who funds whom, consolidation paths, entity linkage) happen here.
Supporting cast you'll likely touch:
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SQL everywhere — for ad-hoc analysis, validation, and defining ground-truth datasets.
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Columnar / analytical stores (e.g., ClickHouse) for fast aggregate queries over large tables.
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Orchestration & scheduling for backfills and recurring pipeline runs.
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Git / GitHub for version control and code review — we expect pipelines and heuristics to be reviewed like any other code.
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GCP as our cloud environment.
How we work
Small, high-trust team. You'll have a lot of ownership and very little bureaucracy. We prototype fast, measure honestly, and ship.
Benefits
Health Insurance
excellent health insurance
Learning Budget
learning & development initiatives
Team-building activities
team-building sessions
Paid Time Off
flexible time off
Merkle Science offers blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions designed for web3 companies, digital asset service providers, financial institutions, and government agencies. We empower our clients to detect and prevent illicit cryptocurrency activities, ensuring a safer and compliant ecosystem for digital assets.
- Founded
- Founded 2018
- Employees
- 51-200 employees
- Total raised
- $26M raised