# Forward Deployed Engineer - US National Security at TRM Labs

- Company: TRM Labs
- What the company does: Trusted by public sector agencies and private sector institutions on the front lines of illicit activity, including criminal networks, sanctioned actors and state-backed threats. Backed by Bessemer and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.trmlabs.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: North America
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trm-labs/e4992057-b59e-4fb3-8f18-a919497d0ba5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/trm-labs-forward-deployed-engineer-us-national-security/

## About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with TRM's national-security customers — deploying our platform into their environments, sitting with the people who use it, and building what the mission actually needs.

## What they're looking for

- Strong programming ability in Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript, with real fluency developing with AI — coding agents and LLM tooling are part of how you ship, and you have judgment about where they help and where they don't
- Hands-on Kubernetes: deploying, debugging and reasoning about real workloads. Maintaining someone else's cluster is not the same thing
- Production AWS experience — building environments, not just consuming them
- Working fluency with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar): schema design, query tuning, moving data around safely
- Range. Concrete examples of delivering outside your primary specialty — a new language, datastore or platform you picked up because the project needed it
- Outstanding written and verbal communication. You will be the only engineer in front of a customer regularly, and comfort there is not optional

Tags: R&D