TRM Labs is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for US national security, including air-gapped deployments
The blockchain intelligence company, a Series C firm with $220M raised, wants an FDE to deploy its platform into government environments—cloud and air-gapped—sit with mission users, and carry field needs back into the product.
TRM Labs has posted a Forward Deployed Engineer – US National Security role based in North America with a Washington, D.C. option. The job sits on the R&D team and asks the engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate TRM’s AI-powered investigation platform inside customer environments, including air-gapped ones, and often to be the only TRM engineer in the room.
The posting describes a generalist FDE brief: in a given quarter you might ship application code, debug Kubernetes in a restricted environment, design a schema, stand up cloud infrastructure, or prototype a capability because a customer described a problem nobody has solved yet. Required skills include Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript with AI coding tools, hands-on Kubernetes, production AWS, and relational databases, plus clear written and verbal communication for customer-facing work.
For people following FDE careers, this is a concrete example of the clearance-and-constrained-environment end of the market—closer to Palantir-style government deployment than to SaaS onboarding. TRM says it has raised $220M total (Series C), with backers including Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, and Thoma Bravo, and runs distributed hubs including Washington, D.C.
Source: jobs.ashbyhq.com