Senior AI Engineer

Build a Safer World with TRM Labs

TRM Labs provides leading blockchain analytics and AI solutions, empowering law enforcement, national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses to detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. Our platforms trace funds, identify illicit activity, and build comprehensive threat intelligence. We are trusted globally to enable a safer, more secure world.

The AI & Automation team at TRM is dedicated to designing and building AI-powered applications and agentic solutions that enable our internal teams to operate at scale. We collaborate directly with business leaders across the company to identify high-impact opportunities, then design, build, and own end-to-end solutions that drive key business metrics.

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer who is passionate about working hands-on with modern AI technologies, building custom internal tools, and operating with a high degree of ownership. This role is ideal for engineers who want to remain deeply technical while also significantly shaping the 'what' and 'how' of product development.

As a member of the AI & Automation team, you will embed closely with various business teams (e.g., Intelligence, R&D, Operations, Talent, Finance, Legal), identify their most critical challenges, and design AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable outcomes. You will own these systems comprehensively, from initial ideation and architecture through delivery, iteration, and long-term maintenance.

The Impact You'll Have Here

• Design, build, and own full-stack, AI-powered internal applications, encompassing backend services, APIs, data storage, and user-facing interfaces.
• Develop custom agentic solutions that leverage state-of-the-art AI models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) to automate workflows, augment decision-making, and scale business processes.
• Embed within internal teams to deeply understand their goals, constraints, and key metrics, then translate those needs into robust technical solutions with clear success criteria.
• Own projects end-to-end, including technical design, architectural decisions, scoping, delivery, iteration, and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to expand their understanding of AI's potential and help shape more ambitious solutions.
• Build reliable, scalable systems that are used across the organization and impact critical parts of TRM’s operations.
• Continuously evaluate impact, iterating on solutions quarter-over-quarter based on measurable business outcomes.
• Contribute to a fast-moving, high-ownership engineering culture that values quality, velocity, and real-world impact.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience building scalable web applications, services, and APIs.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python, with comfort working across the stack including frontend development (React or similar frameworks).
• Experience building backend systems, working with various datastores such as Postgres/pgvector, Pinecone, Redis, and designing robust APIs.
• Demonstrated curiosity and hands-on experience with AI tools and applications, including using modern AI models, agentic IDEs, or building AI-enabled workflows or prototypes.
• Experience building or experimenting with custom-developed agentic systems, workflow orchestration tools (like n8n), or agentic browser automation.
• A high degree of ownership and initiative, with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally and building trust with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Bonus Qualifications

• Direct experience integrating automated AI Evaluation/Testing/Observability suites to continuously test model effectiveness, leveraging platforms such as DeepEval, Langfuse/LangSmith, or similar.

About the Team

The AI & Automation team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Individuals lead projects as technical anchors, fostering growth and ownership. We collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to deliver impactful features to our internal customers and the company. The team's culture prioritizes psychological safety, building rapport, trust, accountability, extensive collaboration, and fun. The team’s timezone includes a mix of EST and PST, with at least 6 hours of overlap with PST (8 am to 2 pm PST). There is an on-call rotation specific to internal tools, where engineers triage support requests from dedicated Slack channels.

Life at TRM

We are building a safer world, and this mission drives our daily work. TRM runs fast – we are a high-velocity, high-ownership team that values clarity, follow-through, and impact. Individuals who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and direct feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it often ships here in days. This pace is not for everyone; we seek teammates who thrive, not just survive, in this environment.

AI Fluency at TRM

AI fluency is a baseline expectation. We believe AI significantly changes how top performers operate and expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks. At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to accelerate repeatable workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage. You will be evaluated on applied AI fluency during the interview process.

Leadership Principles

We hire and grow based on three leadership principles:

• Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We prioritize customers, moving with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan as an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.
• Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft, balancing speed with high standards, owning outcomes end-to-end, and continuously improving.
• Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, bringing humility, candor, and a one-team mindset, giving and receiving feedback to strengthen the team.

Join Our Mission

At TRM, we care deeply about our craft. We seek individuals whose work matters, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions. If excited by TRM’s mission but missing a few qualifications, we encourage you to apply – we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast.

TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

Key skills/competency

• AI Automation
• Full-stack Development
• Agentic Systems
• Internal Tools
• API Design
• Backend Services
• Workflow Orchestration
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Project Ownership
• Scalable Systems