Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

As an Engineering Manager on the AI Product Engineering team at TRM Labs, you will lead a multidisciplinary pod of frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers to build tooling that enables investigators to keep pace with AI-powered crime. You'll re-imagine how people interact with software, shipping workflows that are more autonomous, auditable, and far more effective than current SaaS-based tools. This role blends people leadership, technical judgment, and end-to-end ownership from 0→1 product bets through to scaled, reliable production systems.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a pod of engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack disciplines, setting a high bar for craftsmanship, pace, and ownership.
• Own execution of key AI-powered product initiatives end-to-end, from shaping problem statements and 0→1 prototypes to launch, iteration, and scale.
• Partner closely with Product and Design on roadmap planning, tradeoffs, and prioritization, especially where AI can unlock step-function improvements in user workflows.
• Drive predictable delivery while maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and maintainability in a fast-moving environment.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, architectural discussions, and unblocking engineers across the stack (frontend, backend, integrations).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams (data, platform, AI and agents) to integrate advanced capabilities into clear, explainable user experiences.
• Establish strong engineering fundamentals including clear ownership, documentation, observability, testing, and operational rigor for AI-infused product surfaces.
• Foster a culture of high trust, high velocity, and candid communication, where hiring and developing exceptional talent is treated as a first-class responsibility.
• Review code, jump into pull requests when needed, and stay close to architecture.
• Engage directly with customers to inform product direction and shape what gets built.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2-5+ years of people management experience, leading multidisciplinary product teams that ship user-facing software.
• Strong product engineering background building workflow-heavy or data-rich applications end-to-end, from 0→1 through scale.
• Experience building or integrating AI and LLM-powered features into production systems, including understanding the practical realities of shipping AI, iteration, evaluation, reliability, and UX tradeoffs.
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces, move quickly without heavy process, and turn early ideas into shipped product.
• Technical depth to review code, guide architecture, and make sound tradeoffs across frontend, backend, and AI-integrated systems.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design in fast-moving environments, balancing speed, quality, and user experience.
• Strong communication skills and comfort engaging directly with customers to inform product direction.
• U.S. citizenship (required due to the nature of the work and applicable customer and government requirements).

Nice to have

• Experience scaling or evolving product engineering pods.
• Background in B2B or enterprise software.
• Experience with data-rich, workflow-heavy, or real-time products.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems or complex integrations.

What we offer

• Work on complex problems at the intersection of AI, national security, and crime investigation with real-world impact.
• Distributed-first operations with hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. TRM provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime, enabling investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks.