Job Description

Senior Cryptocurrency Investigator
Department: Research & Investigations
Employment Type: Full Time
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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