Senior Software Engineer, AI Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on TRM Labs' Intel team, you sit at the intersection of intelligence analysts, back-end systems, and AI. Your mandate is to make TRM's intelligence collection meaningfully better with AI. You work directly alongside intel analysts to understand how they collect and act on intelligence, then build the AI-powered products, tooling, and infrastructure that let them do it faster and at greater scale.

What you'll do

• Embed directly with intel analysts to deeply understand their goals, constraints, and workflows, then translate those into technical solutions with clear success criteria.
• Identify the highest-leverage opportunities to improve intelligence collection by bringing a product lens to prioritization, not just an engineering one, and productize your work so it's adopted and durable.
• Design, build, and own AI-powered internal applications end-to-end: back-end services, APIs, data storage, the back-end infrastructure they run on, and user-facing interfaces.
• Develop custom agentic solutions leveraging state-of-the-art models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini to augment and scale intelligence workflows.
• Own projects end-to-end, including technical design, architecture, scoping, delivery, iteration, and ongoing support.
• Build reliable, scalable systems on which analysts depend day to day.
• Continuously evaluate impact and iterate based on real outcomes for the Intel team.

What you bring

• 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience building scalable web applications, services, and APIs.
• Strong product sense: the ability to zoom out, spot the highest-impact and most scalable solution, and ship it as something people actually keep using.
• Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong back-end and systems engineering skills.
• Experience building backend systems, working with various datastores such as Postgres/pgvector, Pinecone, and Redis, and designing 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.
• A high degree of ownership and initiative, with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong communication and the ability to build trust with semi-technical stakeholders and explain technical trade-offs clearly.

What we offer

• Base salary range of $200,000 to $220,000.
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan.

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. 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.