Senior AI Engineer (AI Automation)

Software; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to be the embedded AI automation engineer for Product, building agents, automations, and apps that empower product managers, marketing, and designers. You will collaborate across discovery, engineering, and adoption, staying inside teams to ship from concept to production.

You will own end-to-end ownership with ambiguity, applying AI fluency to create scalable agentic solutions, and directly contribute to faster, data-driven decision making across the

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering in Python or TypeScript.
• Experience with AI-powered agents and automation.
• Ability to translate non-engineer requirements into tech solutions.
• Judgment about where AI adds value and where it does not.
• Experience shipping solutions that non-technical teams adopted.
• Daily use of AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code or Cursor).
• Senior scope: ownership end to end in ambiguous contexts.

Responsibilities

• Move repetitive, manual work into agents and automations.
• Give teams access to customer insight and data through built tools.
• Ship agentic solutions that scale headcount and adoption.
• Build reusable components to accelerate future builds.
• Turn rough ideas into prototypes and ship same-day fixes to shared agents.

Skills

Python/TypeScript

AI fluency

Requirements gathering

AI judgment

Cross-functional

AI tools

Job description

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.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be the embedded AI automation engineer for Product, building the agents, automations, and apps that help product managers, product marketers, and designers move faster. You work directly with them, and with engineering, across the product lifecycle from early discovery through launch and adoption. You sit inside the teams, not behind a ticket queue.

The impact you will have:

• Move repetitive, manual work into agents and automations so Product, Product Marketing, and Design spend their time on judgment and customer work, not busywork.
• Give teams direct access to customer insight and the data behind it through the tools you build, so they make better-informed decisions.
• Ship agentic solutions teams actually adopt, so the same headcount operates at a scale it otherwise could not.
• Build reusable, maintained components so each new build is faster than the last and no one rebuilds what already exists.
• Turn a rough idea into a working prototype in hours and ship same-day production fixes to shared agents, driving faster speed to market across Product and Marketing.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong software engineering in Python or TypeScript. You ship production code, not just workflows wired together.
• Very high AI fluency. You build with AI every day and build agentic solutions on current frontier models, including MCP, retrieval, evals, and observability. Show us something you built.
• Experience taking requirements from non-engineers and finding the need behind the ask.
• Judgment about where AI adds value and where it does not.
• Experience building solutions that non-technical teams adopted and kept using.
• Daily use of AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Senior scope: you own problems end to end, need little direction, and are comfortable with ambiguity.

About the Team:

AI Automation Engineering is the engineering home for internal tooling and agents, embedded with Product, Product Marketing, and Design.

You stay connected to engineering for standards, code review, and shared infrastructure, so what you build holds up in production and compounds across teams.

The work is high-ownership and ambiguous by design. You set your own priorities and own problems end to end.

Globally distributed, fully remote, and async-first.

Team Operating Rhythms:

Roughly a 6 hour overlap with 8:00am to 5:00pm PST.

Embedded side by side with the teams you serve, with a connection back to the AI Automation team and engineering.

Async-first communication through Slack and written documentation. Distributed, not distant.

No travel, no onsite, and no on-call.

Required online and collaboration hours:

Schedule: Roughly a 6 hour overlap with 8:00am to 5:00pm CT.

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

A rough idea becomes a working prototype in hours, so the team reacts to something real instead of a description.

You ship an improvement to a shared agent or app to production the same day a user reports a problem.

Within the first 90 days, a team relies on something you built as part of their weekly work.

Interviewing with TRM:

Our process is designed to understand how you think, solve problems, and deliver impact, while allowing you to evaluate TRM. Most interview processes include a case study, an AI skills assessment, and a Leadership Principles interview.

Recruiter Intro: Qualifications, motivations, and alignment with the role.

Hiring Manager: Deep dive into your relevant experience, skills, and impact.

First Round: 1-2 interviews focused on the skills most critical to the role.

Final Round: Hands-on case study. This is usually a panel-style session where we go deeper into your craft, problem-solving, and alignment with TRM.

References: Former colleagues who can provide insight into your work and impact.

Offer: Congrats! Your recruiter will present the offer and compensation details.

Welcome to TRM: We're excited to build a safer world with you!

Your recruiter will share your specific interview plan and preparation guidance along the way.

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 repeatable workflows
• Structure and solve problems
• Improve output quality
• 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.

At TRM, you should expect:

• Priorities and targets to change quickly
• Operating with a high degree of ambiguity
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