Senior Full Stack Data Scientist, NLP

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.

We're looking for a Full Stack Data Scientist to join our Knowledge Layer team, a group focused on extracting, structuring, and analyzing knowledge from large-scale, unstructured data. This team sits at the intersection of knowledge graphs, entity resolution, graph extraction, and graph analytics, and plays a critical role in powering TRM's core intelligence products.

While the team has strong backend and graph engineering expertise, we are looking for someone to be the machine learning and data science voice in the room - bringing practical ML expertise, especially in knowledge extraction and graph-based ML, to help accelerate and scale our capabilities. This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys operating end-to-end: from model selection and experimentation, to productionizing ML systems and APIs.

The impact you will have:

• Design, build, and productionize machine learning models focused on:
• Knowledge extraction from unstructured data (e.g., NER, entity linking)
• Graph-based learning and inference
• Entity resolution and relationship discovery

• Evaluate and leverage existing ML models and frameworks to solve real-world problems efficiently
• Partner closely with backend and graph engineers to integrate ML models into production services and APIs
• Contribute to the design and evolution of knowledge graphs and ontologies
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to inform modeling decisions and system design
• Own ML components end-to-end, including experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and iteration
• Help shape best practices for applied ML within the Knowledge Layer team

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or applied ML
• Strong programming experience in Python
• Hands-on experience building, training, or deploying machine learning models in production
• Familiarity with NLP or information extraction techniques, such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), text classification, or embedding-based approaches
• Experience or strong interest in knowledge graphs, graph data, or graph-based ML
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including building and maintaining APIs or services
• Ability to translate ambiguous problem spaces into practical ML solutions
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating with engineers across disciplines

Work Location Requirement: This role is based in our San Francisco office. Employees in this position are expected to work from the office at least three (3) days per week to support in-person collaboration and team engagement.

Life at TRM

We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.

TRM moves quickly. 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 financial 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 as we experiment and iterate
• Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity
• A high level of personal ownership and accountability
• Close collaboration across teams and functions
• Frequent, high-touch communication
• Creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking
• A pace that rewards urgency, adaptability, and outcomes

This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined. It also requires comfort navigating ambiguity, adjusting course as new information emerges, and maintaining focus and positivity in a fast-moving and intense environment.

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.

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