Elliptic

Senior Crypto Investigator

Elliptic

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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.
  • Work closely with government agencies, the Crypto Industry, and strategic partners across the EMEA region
  • Inform mitigation operations, in-depth research, and policy decisions through tracing complex, state-sponsored activity and uncovering the TTPs of nation-state and highly sophisticated threat actors

Requirements

  • 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 (bonus)
  • Previously held DV level clearance (bonus)
  • Familiarity with DeFi protocols, mixers and de-mixing techniques, cross-chain bridges, and advanced laundering techniques used by high-tier threat actors. (bonus)
  • Knowledge and experience with Data Science and Data Augmentation (bonus)
  • Higher Academic Qualification (bonus)