TRM Labs
Lead Instructor
United States · Senior
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About the role
- While the role centers on government audiences, you should be equally comfortable training private-sector teams - such as security and threat intel teams, crypto businesses, and financial institutions.
- We know how our products are used in the real world and help our customers become humble masters too.
- Keep course materials current with the evolving threat landscape - including ransomware, nation-state activity, phishing, account takeovers (ATOs), sim swaps, hacks and exploits, and other cyber-enabled crime.
Responsibilities
- BUILD A SAFER WORLD.
- TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks.
- Our blockchain intelligence and AI intelligence platforms turn fragmented signals into fast, defensible investigative leads for the teams protecting public safety and national security every day.
- instructors use AI in daily work and build reusable assets the whole cadre adopts.
- We are building a safer world.
Requirements
- Operating with a high degree of ambiguity
Nice to have
- Blockchain, cryptocurrency, or digital assets knowledge, including on-chain investigations or money laundering typologies.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., GIAC such as GCTI or GOSI, or similar cyber/OSINT credentials).
- TRM is an AI-native company.
- We expect our instructors to already be using AI tools in their day-to-day work - to accelerate research, author and refine training content, and speed up investigative and analytical workflows.
- AI fluency is not "awareness" or interest
- it's production usage.
- Slack-first, async communication
- @mention for timely responses.
Skills
- Government teams are on the front lines of cyber-enabled crime and national security threats.
- Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Compensation
- Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. The compensation details listed in this posting reflect the US base salary only
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $155,000 - $175,000.
Company info
- You will join TRM Academy's Training and Certification team, a group of master instructors who build engaging content and teach to every level of expertise.
- The work is intellectually demanding: you maintain real investigative proficiency across on-chain, cyber and OSINT while translating it into teachable, defensible skills.
- Mission-first, execution-oriented culture that values speed, high delivery quality and measurable business impact through education.
- AI-native team: instructors use AI in daily work and build reusable assets the whole cadre adopts.
- Team Operating Rhythms:
- Distributed, not distant: a US-based team that collaborates across time zones with regular overlap for syncs and co-delivery.
- Slack-first, async communication; @mention for timely responses.
- Frequent travel for in-person delivery at agency and partner sites.
- Required online and collaboration hours:
- Schedule: US business hours with overlap across US time zones for internal syncs and co-delivery.
- As a member of the Training Team at TRM, you will be responsible for building the content and programs that enable others - learners, customers, and fellow instructors - to rapidly upskill.
- TRM Labs is on a mission to build a safer world by fighting crime and protecting the people who investigate it.
- We started as a blockchain intelligence company - helping law enforcement, government agencies, financial institutions, and businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-enabled crime - and today our platform reaches well beyond the blockchain.
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