Senior Data Researcher
Blockchain intelligence company providing tools to detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related fraud, financial crime, and compliance for institutions and government agencies.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About TRM Labs
TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence for investigations and compliance, offering products such as forensics, wallet screening, entity screening, transaction monitoring, and APIs. It serves financial institutions, crypto businesses, and public sector agencies to trace funds, assess risk, and build cases across digital assets.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead original investigations from evidence gathering through publication. You will research crime and financial networks using blockchain intelligence and external sources, analyze and validate findings with AI tools, write research, develop investigator training content, and share emerging threat intelligence with product and intelligence teams.
Requirements
- 5 to 8 years of research or data analysis experience combined with published writing
- Experience leading a high-impact investigation from evidence gathering through publication
- Strong analysis across financial, open-source, court, regulatory, and structured data sources
- Public portfolio of investigative or research-led work with measurable reach
- Deep AI fluency across research, analysis, drafting, and packaging
- Ability to run and quality-check an agent-based production workflow
Responsibilities
- Publish original investigative research on illicit-finance and crime threats
- Use AI tools to research, analyze data, test methodology, draft, and package findings
- Lead research on crime and the financial networks that support it
- Combine blockchain intelligence with sanctions lists, court filings, corporate records, open-source intelligence, and threat intelligence
- Turn findings into evidence-based published research
- Develop training content for investigators and compliance teams
- Share emerging threat intelligence with product and intelligence teams
- Manage the research and content workflow
Benefits
- Eligibility to participate in TRM’s equity plan
- Approved travel, lodging, and workspace for required R&D work weeks
- Accommodations for legitimate caregiving, health, immigration, and similar constraints
Hiring Process
Recruiter intro; hiring manager interview; first round of 1–2 skill-focused interviews; final panel-style hands-on case study; references; offer.