
- Senior
- Office in London
Key Responsibilities
- Lead advanced crypto investigations tied to nation-state actors, sanctions evasion, and high-priority threat groups
- Deliver actionable intelligence reports, briefings, and strategic insights that directly support national security, financial crime enforcement, and crypto policy efforts
- Collaborate with internal product, data, and research teams to translate real-world investigations into scalable threat detection capabilities and platform innovation.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- You’re a natural self-starter who takes full ownership of your investigations without needing oversight, but values knowledge-sharing and team collaboration
- You’re at your best when working with other experts, within Elliptic and across intelligence, government, and crypto industry communities—to solve problems others can’t
- You find purpose in tackling difficult questions, developing new methodologies, and staying ahead of emerging threats—and are willing to put in the extra effort when it matters most.
- For this role is essential requirement being located, or willing to relocate in the Greater London Area
- Willingness and ability to obtain DV level clearance
- Deep expertise with blockchain analytics platforms and the ability to operate independently across multiple cryptoassets.
- Strong understanding of how nation-state actors, APT groups, or organized crime networks leverage crypto for illicit finance—including relevant TTPs.
- Comfortable using raw blockchain data and native explorers to trace assets, including through smart contracts and across bridges.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex investigations with minimal oversight—seeing them through from initial exploitation to actionable intelligence
- Experience working with or alongside public sector partners (e.g. law enforcement, intelligence agencies, national security teams) in a crypto-related context
- Previously held DV level clearance
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols, mixers and de-mixing techniques, cross-chain bridges, and advanced laundering techniques used by high-tier threat actors.
- Knowledge and experience with Data Science and Data Augmentation
- Higher Academic Qualification
Job Benefits
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 cryptocurrency for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme