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What they do

TRM Labs sells AI-powered intelligence tools to government agencies and businesses. Investigators use them to trace illegal activity, build cases, and map threat networks. Its product Ardence joins crypto, dark web, corporate, sanctions, and other data in one investigation. TRM also shows the risk of crypto addresses and assets to compliance teams.

What they value

• Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: customers first, speed, and fast experiments.
• Master Craftsperson: high standards, and ownership of outcomes end to end.
• Inspiring Colleague: humility, candor, and a one-team mindset.
• Speed: "If something takes months elsewhere, it will ship here in days."
• AI fluency: every person uses AI to do their work better.
• Accountability: "We design for accountability."

Where they hire

107 of 115 roles are remote, most in the United States or North America. Others are in London, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), São Paulo, and Toronto. Seven roles are hybrid, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. 24 roles need US citizenship, and some national security roles need a top secret TS/SCI clearance. No posting mentions a visa.

Teams and roles

Research and development (R&D) has 55 roles: 18 in software engineering, 13 in data engineering, and seven each in data science and primary intelligence. Go-to-market (sales and marketing) has 42 roles, and general and administrative has 18, with ten recruiters.

• AI Platform: data platform and data infrastructure roles, some for TRM's government cloud.
• AI engineering: agent engineers build AI agents that automate investigative tasks.
• Product Engineering: builds public APIs and product features. The backend is in Node.js.
• Intelligence analysts: investigate hacks, scams, and ransomware.
• Direct sales: account directors for national security, law enforcement, defense, financial institutions, and crypto companies.
• Deployment strategists: help government and law enforcement customers use the platform after they buy it.

17 postings give pay ranges, such as $180K to $210K base pay for a backend engineer. TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, from investors such as Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, and Thoma Bravo.

What they look for

Every posting says that AI fluency is a baseline. Interviews test it, and most also include a case study. TRM says that it hires "for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast."

Software and data roles most often ask for Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL. Senior roles ask for five or more years of experience. 14 of these roles ask for daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot. Agent and AI roles ask for hands-on work with LLMs and agent frameworks.

Sales roles ask for five or more years of selling SaaS (software sold as a service) or data products, to customers such as banks, payment companies, and government agencies. Many ask for regular travel. Every posting warns that priorities change quickly and that the pace is intense.