Data Scientist
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This role is valuable for data-driven professionals looking to have a tangible impact on blockchain projects, paired with competitive compensation and flexibility.
- Engagement with significant data in the blockchain ecosystem
- Flexibility of remote work
- Opportunity to influence strategic decisions with insights
Pros
- Chance to work on analytical projects in the blockchain domain
- Opportunity for ownership of data processes and insights
- Engagement in cross-team initiatives enhances communication skills
Cons
- High expectations for both technical and analytical skills
- May require extensive collaboration across varying time zones
- Possibility of high workloads during new initiatives
Who it's for
Mid to Senior • Remote
Good fit
- Data scientists with an interest in blockchain
- Analysts who enjoy working with diverse datasets
- Professionals motivated by merit-based evaluation
Not recommended for
- Newcomers with limited data science experience
- Individuals preferring in-person collaboration
- Those uninterested in innovative technologies
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Wormhole Foundation
Our mission is to empower passionate people in the research and development of blockchain interoperability technologies. We support teams building secure, open-source, and decentralized products within the Wormhole ecosystem.
Data Scientist
As a Data Scientist at the Wormhole Foundation, you will work across product, engineering, and business teams to extract insights from complex datasets. Reporting to our Strategy Lead, your work will directly influence decision-making, drive product development, detect anomalies, and help shape the future of Wormhole.
What You’ll Do:
- Support strategic initiatives by analyzing on-chain and off-chain data
- Create statistical tooling to monitor and critically assess network parameters on an ongoing basis, including experimentation frameworks
- Identifying and executing on novel data-based opportunities to better Wormhole’s core product offerings
- Collaborate across the Wormhole ecosystem and external teams to create and maintain robust data pipelines.
- Other special projects as assigned
Who You Are:
- 4+ years of industrial experience in data science.
- Demonstrated experience expertise working with, procuring and tabulating on-chain data in a range of blockchain environments (particular focus on EVM and SVM).
- Proficient in one or more programming languages (Python, Java, Scala).
- Expertise with big data warehouse systems (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, etc.)
- Experience in SQL and NoSQL.
- Experience with workflow orchestration management and source control management.
- Experience with data ingestion following ELT best practices.
- Experience in building infrastructure to support batch, micro-batch or stream data processing at scale.
- Experience with cloud service database management (GCP, Azure etc.)
- Experience with BI and visualization tools (Tableau, Looker etc.) is a plus
- Expertise in machine learning, statistics, and keen on experimentation.
- Internal knowledge of open source or related big data technologies.
- Motivated, creative self-starter excited to work in a meritocratic work environment.
- Enjoy working with a remote-first team, and based in the US East, UK or Europe timezone.
Even if you don’t meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply if you believe you’re a strong fit for the role!
