Senior or Staff Applied AI Engineer, TRM Labs
$215-230k
Blockchain investigations & risk management
Job no longer available
Blockchain investigations & risk management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$215-230k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a safer financial system for billions of people.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced programming expertise in Python and SQL, with strong system design skills
- Deep experience deploying machine learning/deep learning models in production (LLM/GenAI strongly preferred)
- Strong foundation in experimentation frameworks, evaluation metrics, and ML Ops practices
- Proven ability to own critical systems end-to-end and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners
What the job involves
- The AI Engineer (Models) will join our Model Engineering Team, a group focused on advancing model selection, fine-tuning, and evaluation strategies for production-scale AI systems
- As a senior individual contributor, this person will lead technical efforts to push the boundaries of model performance and orchestration, directly impacting the competitiveness of our AI Engineering platform
- Design, build, and own a production-grade evaluation system that drives measurable improvements in model accuracy and latency
- Lead experimentation, fine-tuning, and feedback-based evaluation loops for continuous model optimization
- Advance the orchestration of AI/ML systems, ensuring scalable, resilient, and high-impact deployments
- Elevate technical standards through engineering craftsmanship, mentorship, and leadership as a senior IC
- The AI Engineering team operates with a high level of collaboration and interdependence, fostering an inclusive culture where connections extend beyond work. We value diverse personalities and seek someone who is both results-driven and sociable, with strong communication, leadership, and teamwork skills, along with a positive, solutions-oriented mindset
- As a globally distributed team, members may observe different timezones. However, most of the team will overlap between the hours of 7am-12pm PST for meetings and collaboration
- All team members, regardless of location must have at least 4 hour overlap with PST business hours
- The team is involved in 2 different on-calls:
- Analytics on-call: only requires focus on working time (average of < 1 hour a day every month)
- Data Science on-call: full week on-call to ensure Data Science pipelines are running smoothly (average of 1-2 hours a day every 3 months)
- Senior Engineer: Successfully designs and documents system improvements and features for an OKR/project from the ground up
- Consistently delivers efficient and reusable systems, optimizes team throughput with appropriate tradeoffs, mentors team members, and enhances cross-team collaboration through documentation and knowledge sharing
Our take
The crypto space has become more mainstream but it is also intensely volatile and poorly regulated, with a high degree of anonymity afforded to its users. As such it has become a major source of financial fraud with $20 billion in crypto stolen in 2022 alone. TRM Lab exists to return trust to the blockchain, helping banks, government agencies and crypto companies detect and combat fraud with its blockchain intelligence solutions.
As the risk of blockchain fraud is only increasing, with the proceeds often being used for organized crime, there are a number of companies working in this space. TRM stands out with the breadth of its crypto asset coverage and the strength of its cross-chain analytics. It has partnered with the FBI and Europol to aid its investigations, and is also used by major crypto companies MoonPay and Binance.
The company has grown its revenue by almost 500% year on year since its founding in 2018, and has raised a significant amount of capital. With the funding its secured, its further developing its product and hiring additional talent. And as businesses and government agencies increasingly come to grips with fraud in the crypto space, TRM is well poised to continue its rapid growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2026
$70m
SERIES C
Nov 2022
$70m
SERIES B
Total funding: $220.1m
Company benefits
- DIstributed, not distant
- Competitive compensation package
- Paid time off: 25 days of vacation and competitive holistic paid time off plans
- Parental leave & family planning: 18 weeks of paid parental leave (if employed for at least 180 days unless the home state or country required less tenure). For select eligible regions, we also offer fertility treatments via the Carrot platform
- Health coverage: Premium coverage for medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Company retreats
- Career growth
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Esteban Castaño
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Founded the Digital team at Generation, a high growth youth employment program, before launching TRM in 2018.
Rahul Raina
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Former Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services and Opendoor.
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