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Signature Federal Systems is looking for cryptocurrency experts with experience in either banking/financial investigation and/or relevant education in information systems or computer science, finance, or FINTECH. The ideal candidates will be tech-savvy analysts with data processing skills who want to grow and develop by initiating analysis on unique data sets. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to support the national security mission of the United States in the field of data analytics and financial exploitation. The preferred candidate will have a keen understanding of virtual currencies, cryptocurrency exchanges, digital assets, and/or payment service providers. The position will leverage the candidate’s digital savvy and capacity for deep research and creativity to spot non-obvious targets and intelligence within a fluid and rapidly evolving market segment by applying data analytical tradecraft. There are 2 types of people we will consider for this role.
• Candidates with strong technical skills familiar with Python and other scripting languages and have the ability to search files and folders with regex, scripts and pattern matching.
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• Candidates with financial investigations backgrounds will ideally have forensic accounting knowledge or experience, understand money laundering and sanctions evasion techniques and understand know-your-customer (KYC) information, customer onboarding and identify verification methods. Knowledge of anti-money laundering guidelines such as FATF and/or jurisdiction-specific guidelines. • Responsibilities:

• Drive operations
• Uncover leads in large data sets
• Explore acquired data for intelligence
• Build technical tools/processes to improve overall operational effectiveness • Required Education, Experience, & Skills
• Successful candidates will have relevant education and/or training such as Information Systems or Computer Science or perhaps a business degree with emphasis on Banking, Finance, or FINTECH. Certifications with tools like Reactor or TRM would be a plus. • Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
• Experience tracing cryptocurrency transactions, including asset flow, IP addresses and wallet software.
• Candidates with experience and/or knowledge in the following areas will move to the top of the list. • Money Services
• Understanding how ACH and SWIFT messaging works
• Understanding how payment service providers work, such as Paypal or Payoneer
• Understanding how cryptocurrency is converted into fiat. Cryptocurrency

• Understanding blockchains and how they work

• Merkle trees
• Centralized versus decentralized exchanges
• Cryptocurrency mining and how it works
• Proof of work vice proof of stake
• Public Key cryptography
• Role of updates such as BIP numbers, ERC20 improvements • Cryptocurrency wallets
• How different types of cryptocurrency wallets work, such as software, hardware, custodial, non-custodial
• Advantages/disadvantages of each wallet type
• Private keys versus public keys
• Seed phrases • Cryptocurrency transactions
• Visibility of transactions on the blockchain
• Role of nodes in cryptocurrency transactions
• How fees work
• Peer-to-Peer transactions
• Role of Exchanges
• Over-the-Counter (OTC) traders • Cryptocurrency tools
• Proficiency with commercial blockchain explorers, such as Chainalysis Reactor, TRM or CipherTrace
• Experience with open source blockchain explorers • Cryptocurrency laundering methods
• Mixers and bridges
• Peel chains
• High-risk exchanges
• peer-to-peer trading
• darknet markets