[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation @TRM Labs

Role Description

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. This role sits at the intersection of intelligence analysts, back-end systems, and AI, with a mandate to enhance TRM's intelligence collection using AI.

You'll work directly alongside our intel analysts to:

• Understand how they collect and act on intelligence.
• Build AI-powered products, tooling, and infrastructure to improve efficiency and scalability.

The impact you’ll have here:

• Embed directly with intel analysts to understand their goals, constraints, and workflows.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to improve intelligence collection.
• Design, build, and own AI-powered internal applications end-to-end.
• Develop custom solutions leveraging state-of-the-art models to augment intelligence workflows.
• Own projects end-to-end, including technical design, architecture, scoping, delivery, iteration, and ongoing support.
• Build reliable, scalable systems for daily analyst use.
• Continuously evaluate impact and iterate based on real outcomes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years full-stack software engineering experience building scalable web applications, services, and APIs.
• Strong product sense with the ability to identify high-impact, scalable solutions.
• Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong back-end and systems engineering skills.
• Experience building backend systems and designing APIs.
• Demonstrated curiosity and hands-on experience with AI tools and applications.
• A high degree of ownership and initiative, with the ability to operate independently.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build trust with semi-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Experience with various datastores such as Postgres/pgvector, Pinecone, Redis.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on impactful features for internal customers.
• Culture built on psychological safety and collaboration.
• Flexible working hours with a mix of EST and PST time zones.
• On-call rotation for internal tools support.

Company Description

TRM Labs is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in various cities worldwide.