AI Research Engineer

Build a Safer World.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.The AI Research Engineer will join our AI 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.The impact you will have: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.What we're looking for: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.About the Team: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 mindsetAs 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 collaborationAll team members, regardless of location must have at least 4 hour overlap with PST business hoursThe team is involved in 2 different on-calls: Analytics on-call: only requires focus on working time (average of