Blockchain Careers at Chainalysis

Investigator / Senior Investigator

The team of investigators at Chainalysis are world-class problem solvers adept at covert analysis and conducting complex investigations. We help our customers with the biggest and hairiest of investigations and along the way, make the world a safer place.

Investigators are equal parts technical knowledge, tenacity, and intuition. As an embedded resource at key customers, the Cryptocurrency Investigator will measure their success by their impact on that customer’s mission and the expansion of Chainalysis product adoption within the account.

The role would provide technical tax support to the investigations team serving the IRS. The work would include calculating taxable income from a wide variety of transactions involving virtual currency, the application of civil and criminal tax presumptions to address missing data gaps, and generating leads for ways to collect missing data.

In one year you’ll know you were successful if you’ve…

• Provided technical advice and investigative support for extremely difficult, complex, technical and highly sensitive investigations especially as they pertain to cryptocurrencies
• Become a sought-after and trusted advisor to investigators, analysts, and leadership within your assigned account and provide training and guidance to other investigators and analysts.
• Reviewed the adequacy and completeness of investigations and the data collection methods to determine the authenticity, veracity, and pertinence of that data resulting in more thorough investigations
• Prepared in-depth summaries of data from extensive research and analysis to set forth recommendations for investigations, lead follow up, and potential risks that could hamper an investigation that have led to meaningful results related to the customer’s mission
• Received the Chainalysis Reactor Certification and the Chainalysis Investigations Specialist Course certification and can expertly navigate open-source blockchain analytic tools

A background like this helps:

• TS/SCI preferred
• Prior experience in law enforcement or equivalent forensic experience related to dark web, counter-terrorism, financial crime, cryptocurrency tax, insider threat, and/or drug enforcement investigations or technical analysis, network analysis
• Insatiable curiosity about cryptocurrencies and the growing market
• Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC), CISC a plus
• CPA preferred

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