TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence and AI platforms include solutions to trace the source and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to enable a safer, more secure world for all.
As a Senior Data Scientist on the Insights team, you will play a central role in transforming TRM’s intelligence into compelling, defensible narratives. Working closely with engineers, data scientists and editors, you’ll uncover patterns and connections across both on-chain and off-chain data, producing insights that inform TRM’s flagship reports and investigations.
Your work won’t stop at research. You will actively discover new intelligence, validate and extend TRM’s attribution, and communicate findings back into our attribution pipelines and products. The insights you generate will strengthen TRM’s ability to surface emerging threats — from scams and fraud to complex laundering schemes — ensuring that our intelligence products remain the most reliable and impactful in the industry.
The impact you will have:
- Push the frontier of blockchain attribution: Design and apply innovative techniques to surface hidden relationships across entities, transactions, and categories of interest.
- Advance the science of blockchain intelligence: Uncover patterns in vast and complex networks that help redefine what’s possible in this space.
- Deliver impactful insights at scale: Build pipelines, models, and frameworks that generate timely, high-quality intelligence for both internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Reduce time-to-insight dramatically: Help TRM and its partners respond to emerging risks faster than ever before.
- Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with subject matter experts and engineers to validate heuristics, enhance attribution models, and operationalize new approaches into production systems.
- Empower global institutions: Provide insights that support governments, law enforcement, and financial organizations in combating fraud, financial crime, and national security threats., including for former FBI, Secret Service, and Europol agents.
- Shape the future of data science at TRM: Identify new opportunities, propose bold ideas, and set standards for how intelligence is generated and consumed.
- Mentor and inspire peers: Contribute to a culture of intellectual curiosity, rigor, and continuous improvement.
What we're looking for:
- Your academic background is in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics or Physics. Advanced degree preferred.
- You have 6+ years of experience working in an analytical role.
- You have proven experience with at least one programming language (Python preferred) and are comfortable developing code in a team environment (e.g. git, notebooks, testing).
- You have a working knowledge of relational databases, (e.g. SQL)
- You think about data in terms of statistical distributions and have a big enough analytics toolbox to know how to find patterns in data and identify targets for performance
- You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You find a way through. You anticipate. You connect and synthesize.
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $170,000 - $195,000. Please note that the base range is applicable to the US and will be different depending on the country.
- Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.
We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.
TRM runs fast. Really fast. We’re a high‑velocity, high‑ownership team that expects clarity, follow‑through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and direct feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it often ships here in days.
That pace isn’t for everyone. If you are optimizing primarily for consistent work-life balance, use the interview process to pressure-test fit. We want teammates who thrive here, not just survive here.
Leadership PrinciplesWe hire and grow against three leadership principles. They’re the standards for how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions.
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.
- Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft. We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end‑to‑end, and invest in getting better everyday.
- Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, not noise. We bring humility, candor, and a one‑team mindset — giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger.
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The impact you will haveThis work has real stakes. Depending on your role at TRM, your week might look like:
- Driving critical investigations that can’t wait for typical business hours.
- Shipping products in days when others would schedule quarters.
- Partnering with teams across time zones to deliver insights while the story is still unfolding.
- Building new solutions from first principles when the playbook doesn’t yet exist.
- Protecting victims and customers by tracing illicit activity and disrupting criminal networks.
At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply — we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast.
TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. 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.
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