Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Build a Safer World.

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.

About the role:

As a Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, you will conduct ad hoc investigations, time sensitive blockchain analysis for our partners, and develop solutions that allow TRM to scale rapidly and effectively.

You will collaborate with an experienced team of blockchain intelligence experts, engineers, and data scientists to deliver cutting-edge support to TRM's clients.

The impact you will have:

• Produce finished cyber threat intelligence, including actor profiles, campaign reports, IOC packages, infrastructure attributions, and evidence-ready analytical outputs.
• Act as a senior analytical lead across multiple active actors and campaigns at once, helping prioritize work, improve quality, and coach other analysts.
• Lead complex investigations from seed indicators such as domains, IPs, hashes, aliases, or wallets through to attributed actors, clusters, or campaign pictures.
• Correlate technical indicators with OSINT, identity signals, infrastructure patterns, and financial-rail activity to build a fuller understanding of adversary behavior.
• Triage large indicator sets, cluster infrastructure, and turn fragmented signals into clear, defensible findings that stakeholders can act on immediately.
• Support incident responders, threat hunters, investigators, leadership, and external partners with timely, high-confidence intelligence products and briefings.
• Help evaluate and operationalize new analytical tooling by pressure-testing it on real workflows and identifying where it meaningfully reduces analyst effort.
• Contribute to better investigation workflows, analytic standards, and repeatable methods that increase analyst throughput without sacrificing rigor.

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, intelligence analysis, incident-driven investigations, or a closely related analytical field, with at least 1+ years of experience in a people lead/manager role.
• Demonstrated experience producing finished intelligence products such as actor profiles, campaign reports, attribution assessments, or infrastructure mapping.
• Deep familiarity with cyber investigations, infrastructure attribution, campaign analysis, and actor profiling.
• Strong OSINT instincts and the ability to resolve identities, aliases, and behavior across fragmented sources.
• The ability to connect technical findings to financial infrastructure, including wallets, laundering paths, sanctions exposure, or identity-linked leads when relevant to the investigation.
• Excellent judgment about analytical confidence, evidentiary strength, and what can or cannot be defended in a report, referral, or operational setting.
• A track record of leading complex investigations, improving workflows, and helping other analysts do better work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to package findings for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly and ambiguity is normal.
• AI fluency is required. Candidates should be comfortable designing, building, and iterating on agentic AI workflows—not simply prompting LLMs. AI should be a core part of how you automate research, orchestrate tools, accelerate analysis, and improve productivity, while maintaining strong human oversight and quality control over outputs.

About the Team:

• TRM's intelligence and investigations work combines national-security-grade tradecraft with deep analytical workflows across cyber, OSINT, and blockchain-enabled threat activity.
• This role sits at the intersection of intelligence production, investigations, and product-informed tradecraft, helping ensure TRM’s analytical capabilities remain operationally relevant, scalable, and high-quality across multiple use cases and stakeholders.
• Distributed team with an async-first approach via Slack and Notion, plus structured syncs for alignment
• High autonomy, high standards, low bureaucracy — work directly with analysts, engineers, and customers who depend on your output

Team Operating Rhythms:

• Weekly team syncs to align targeting priorities and review disruption opportunities
• Daily async standups via Slack on active work, returns, and target packages in flight
• Primary time zone overlap: US Eastern / Central
• All output documented in Notion and TRM’s investigative tools
• Surge availability expected during time-sensitive disruption windows

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

• Move quickly from a single lead or indicator to an initial analytical picture while the signal is still operationally useful.
• Support partners and internal teams on time-sensitive issues where fast, defensible judgment matters more than perfect information.
• Continuously adapt your tradecraft as adversaries, data sources, and analytical tooling evolve.

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 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.

At the same time, many people find this work deeply rewarding. If you are excited by meaningful problems, motivated by ambitious goals, and energized by working alongside mission-driven colleagues, there is a good chance you will find TRM to be an exceptional place to grow and contribute. Learn more: Interviewing at TRM: How We Hire and What Success Looks Like

AI Fluency at TRM

AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM.

We believe AI meaningfully changes how top performers operate. We expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks.

At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to:

• Accelerate repeatable workflows
• Structure and solve problems
• Improve output quality
• Increase speed and leverage

You will be evaluated on applied AI fluency during the interview process.

Leadership Principles

We hire and grow against three leadership principles. They’re the standards for how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions.

• Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.
• Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft. We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end‑to‑end, and invest in getting better everyday.
• Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, not noise. We bring humility, candor, and a one‑team mindset — giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger.

Join our Mission

At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply — we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast.

TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

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