AI Scientist (LATAM)

Build a Safer World.

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions, including our AI investigations platform Ardence, that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime and global security threats. At TRM, you'll join a mission-driven, fast-paced team made up of experts in law enforcement, data science, engineering, and financial intelligence, tackling complex global challenges daily.

As an AI Scientist on our new AI Research team, you will build the models and agents behind the intelligence that powers TRM's products. Part of that is training foundation models on blockchain data, one of our most differentiated data layers, and part is building autonomous AI agents that generate intelligence at a scale hand-built heuristics cannot reach. You'll work on Intel Cortex and other ambitious, cross-cutting ideas, with a broad view across intelligence rather than a single risk category. This is pioneering work that does not exist elsewhere in our industry, and it directly drives customer outcomes, from seizing illicit funds to disrupting criminal networks.

The impact you'll have here:

• Train ML models on blockchain data, including foundation models, and take them from research to production.
• Build AI agents (and fine-tune LLMs where it helps) so the intelligence underneath TRM's products is generated by models and agents, not only hand-built heuristics.
• Find new ways to generate net new intelligence, using patterns across all intelligence layers (Network / On-chain / Protocol) that competitors can't replicate.
• Ship production-quality code: ML models, agents and data pipelines, with rigorous evaluation and scalable architecture.
• Take on ambitious, high-impact bets that raise the ceiling of what our intelligence can do, and drive measurable outcomes: billions in illicit funds traced, seized, or prevented.

What we’re looking for:

• Quantitative background (Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics). Advanced degree or equivalent research experience is a plus.
• Strong machine learning foundations, built over years of applied ML and/or research (modeling, evaluation, experimentation). You don't need to have trained a foundation model or built agents before, but you need the fundamentals to do it.
• Strong problem-solving mindset: gets to the root cause, leverages creativity, and thrives in ambiguity with a hypothesis-driven, iterative approach.
• 5+ years of hands-on machine learning experience, with strong Python, SQL, and AI-assisted coding tools.
• Experience with distributed data systems (Spark, BigQuery, Airflow) and shipping production ML code.
• Strong async communication, strong technical communication in English, and ability to own work independently in a remote environment.
• Bonus: experience with LLMs, AI agents or fine-tuning; domain curiosity or prior work in blockchain, crypto, fraud, money laundering or financial crime.

About the Team:

• AI Research is a new team focused on ambitious, cross-cutting ideas in attribution and intelligence.
• Fully remote and globally distributed. Most overlap occurs 7am–12pm PST for meetings and collaboration.
• All team members must have at least 4-hour overlap with PST business hours.
• You'll work in partnership with the category pods, whose expert-built heuristics provide the high-confidence labels our models learn from.

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

• Rapid Customer Impact. Deliver last-minute, high-stakes projects for key customers — turning around attribution insights in days, not weeks.
• MVP to Production. Build complex algorithms with tight timeframes (1-2 sprints for MVP) and iterate based on real customer feedback.
• Parallel Execution. Juggle multiple priorities across categories and stakeholders while maintaining quality and speed.

AI fluency at TRM AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM. We believe AI meaningfully changes how top performers operate. We expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks. At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to accelerate workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage. You will be evaluated on applied AI fluency during the interview process.

Life at TRM We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day. TRM moves FAST. We are a high-velocity, high-ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it will ship here in days. Our work sits at the intersection of AI, national security, and fighting crime. The problems are complex, the stakes are real, and the environment evolves quickly. The pace and intensity of the work reflect the importance of the mission. As a result, the way we operate requires a high level of ownership, adaptability, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.

We also recognize that this style of operating is not for everyone. If you are primarily optimizing for predictability or a consistently balanced workload, we encourage you to use the interview process to pressure-test whether this environment is truly the right fit. We want teammates who thrive here, not just survive here.

If you are excited by meaningful problems, motivated by ambitious goals, and energized by working alongside mission-driven colleagues, there is a good chance you will find TRM to be an exceptional place to grow and contribute.

Leadership Principles

• 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.

Join our Mission 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 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.