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Description
Do you want to be on the front lines of fighting crypto crime and stopping nation-state threat actors? Are you excited by the challenge of tracing stolen and laundered digital assets across the most complex blockchain environments? Are you looking to join a mission-driven team where your skills directly protect victims and safeguard the future of crypto?
The Impact You Will Have
This role is critical to Elliptic's mission of safeguarding the integrity of the global crypto ecosystem. As a Senior Investigator, you will be a key member of our elite Investigations & Threat Intelligence team, working closely with government agencies, the Crypto Industry, and strategic partners across the EMEA region. Your expertise in tracing complex, state-sponsored activity and uncovering the TTPs of nation-state and highly sophisticated threat actors will directly inform mitigation operations, in-depth research, and policy decisions. Through deep collaboration with law enforcement, regulators, and analytic partners, your work will help disrupt illicit financial networks, strengthen crypto-related threat detection, and reinforce Elliptic’s position as a trusted partner to those on the front lines of global security. This is high-consequence investigation work—driven by purpose, precision, and impact at scale.
Department: Research & Investigations
Location: London, UK
Description
Do you want to be on the front lines of fighting crypto crime and stopping nation-state threat actors? Are you excited by the challenge of tracing stolen and laundered digital assets across the most complex blockchain environments? Are you looking to join a mission-driven team where your skills directly protect victims and safeguard the future of crypto?
The Impact You Will Have
This role is critical to Elliptic's mission of safeguarding the integrity of the global crypto ecosystem. As a Senior Investigator, you will be a key member of our elite Investigations & Threat Intelligence team, working closely with government agencies, the Crypto Industry, and strategic partners across the EMEA region. Your expertise in tracing complex, state-sponsored activity and uncovering the TTPs of nation-state and highly sophisticated threat actors will directly inform mitigation operations, in-depth research, and policy decisions. Through deep collaboration with law enforcement, regulators, and analytic partners, your work will help disrupt illicit financial networks, strengthen crypto-related threat detection, and reinforce Elliptic’s position as a trusted partner to those on the front lines of global security. This is high-consequence investigation work—driven by purpose, precision, and impact at scale.
Key Responsibilities
What you will do:
* 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 will be a great fit here if you:
* 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.
Our ideal candidate has:
* 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
Bonus Points for:
* 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
Job Benefits
> How we work:
* 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
> Learning & Development:
* $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
> Vacation/ Leave:
* 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.
> Benefits:
* 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
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