Global Investigations, Sextortion

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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.

TRM's Global Investigations team is the tip of the spear against the networks behind financial sextortion and youth predation and the infrastructure they run to coerce and exploit minors. The team operates an integrated workflow, from AI-supported triage of inbound reporting to fast, high-stakes investigation, targeting, and disruption — in coordination with NCMEC, IC3, U.S. and international partners, and platform/consortium intel networks.

As a Global Investigator, you will work at the targeting and disruption layer of sextortion investigations. You will validate high-priority victim and infrastructure leads, use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify actors, aliases, personas, infrastructure, and behavioral patterns, follow the money across the payment rails these networks actually use, and build the targeting packages that enable arrests, platform takedowns, and the dismantling of these groups operate at scale.The impact you will have here:

• Lead OSINT-driven investigations into sextortion actors — identifying aliases, personas, infrastructure, social-media footprints, communication channels, bait packs and reused lure imagery, and links across victims and campaigns.

• Follow the money across the rails this threat actually uses — consumer payment apps, gift cards, and cryptocurrency where cases are crypto-enabled — and draft and work the legal process to act on it.

• Pivot on selectors — a handle, phone number, email, username, image, domain, account, or a cryptocurrency address — to expand a single report into the surrounding network.

• Produce actionable targeting packages that connect OSINT findings, financial evidence, and victim reporting to identify responsible actors and networks, enabling law-enforcement action, platform takedowns, and infrastructure disruption.

• Validate time-sensitive victim and infrastructure signals and move high-confidence matters through the escalation workflow. Speed and accuracy both matter.

• Help drive victim safety — supporting outreach to victims.

What we’re looking for:

• Law-enforcement experience. Experience as a current, former, or retired law-enforcement professional, including sworn officers, investigators, or task-force officers. Candidates with backgrounds in state, local, or federal investigations — particularly ICAC task forces or similar cybercrime, child-exploitation, financial-crime, or digital-investigations teams — are strong fits.

• OSINT investigations background. Demonstrated experience using open-source intelligence to identify online actors, aliases, accounts, infrastructure, communication patterns, linked personas, and operational networks.

• Financial-investigations experience. Experience investigating the payment methods commonly used in these cases, including payment apps, gift cards, and crypto-enabled flows. You can follow funds across platforms, identify relevant selectors, and develop leads that support law-enforcement action, platform referrals, and infrastructure disruption. You do not need to be the world’s deepest blockchain specialist, but you must be able to follow the money confidently and document what matters.

• Sextortion or victim-centered cybercrime investigation experience. You understand the sensitivity, urgency, and victim impact of sextortion cases, and you can investigate quickly without losing rigor, discretion, or care.

• Legal-process familiarity. Working knowledge of preservation requests, subpoenas, and 2703(d) orders, including how to draft requests, interpret returns, and move quickly from a selector to an investigative lead.

• 5-7 years of investigative experience across OSINT, cybercrime, crypto investigations, asset recovery, law enforcement, trust and safety, blockchain analytics, or equivalent.

• Experience producing investigative packages that can support formal legal, compliance, platform escalation, asset-preservation, or enforcement workflows.

• Creative tactical thinking. You can pivot from one handle, wallet, image, phone number, email, username, transaction, or platform account into a broader network view.

• A bias to action. Handed something you've never seen, you figure out the first move and take it. When the playbook stops, you keep going — and you think in outcomes, not lanes.

• AI fluency. You use AI tools in your workflow to synthesize returns, cluster leads, draft outputs, accelerate analysis, and improve investigative speed, with examples of how AI has materially impacted your work.

• US citizenship and the ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

• React timely to the movement of funds during an ongoing investigation.

• Support other teams on time sensitive issues that might be unforeseen.

• Continuously learn new issues in crypto.

Application Instructions

If you’re interested in joining TRM, we encourage you to apply directly. Every application is reviewed by our Talent team.

Before applying, review the job description carefully and highlight the experience and impact that best demonstrate the required qualifications. Please also provide thoughtful and accurate answers to the application questions, as these will be used to evaluate your qualifications for the role.

If you send your resume directly to someone at TRM, we can’t guarantee it will reach the appropriate hiring team. Applying directly is the best way to ensure you’re considered.

What to Expect From Our Interview Process

Our process is designed to understand how you think, solve problems, and deliver impact, while giving you the opportunity to evaluate TRM. Most interview pr