Senior Software Engineer, AI Engineer

The role

You will build AI-powered products, tooling, and infrastructure to improve intelligence collection. You will work with intel analysts to design and own end-to-end applications, back-end services, and APIs.

What you will do

• Embed with intel analysts to translate workflows into technical solutions
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to improve intelligence collection
• Design, build, and own AI-powered internal applications end-to-end
• Develop custom agentic solutions leveraging state-of-the-art models
• Own projects end-to-end including design, architecture, scoping, and delivery
• Build reliable, scalable systems for analysts
• Evaluate impact and iterate based on real outcomes
• Triage customer support requests from specific Slack channels via on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• 6+ years full-stack software engineering experience building scalable web applications, services, and APIs
• Strong product sense
• Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Strong back-end and systems engineering skills
• Experience building backend systems
• Experience working with datastores such as Postgres/pgvector, Pinecone, Redis
• Experience designing APIs
• Demonstrated curiosity and hands-on experience with AI tools and applications
• High degree of ownership and initiative
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to build trust with semi-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Strong data/ML-leaning engineer

Benefits

• TRM coordinates and covers approved travel, lodging, and workspace for R&D work weeks
• Accommodations available for legitimate caregiving, health, immigration, and similar constraints

Before you apply

• Review job description to highlight experience and impact
• Provide thoughtful and accurate answers to application questions
• Use of AI tools during interviews is not permitted without prior approval
• You will be evaluated on applied AI fluency during the interview process

About the company

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. The company is a Series C company headquartered in San Francisco.