TRM Labs
Forward Deployed Engineer - US National Security
Washington D.C. · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
About the job
Deploys and operates TRM’s platform in national-security customer environments, builds mission-specific software, and feeds customer needs back to product and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Deploy, integrate, and operate the platform in cloud and air-gapped environments.
- Work with mission users to build integrations, data pipelines, and prototypes, and deliver across application code, Kubernetes, infrastructure, databases, and data flow.
- Resolve technical issues in constrained environments and communicate mission context to internal teams.
What they ask for
- Strong programming ability in Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript, with fluency using AI coding agents and LLM tooling.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience deploying, debugging, and reasoning about workloads.
- Production AWS experience building environments.
- Working fluency with relational databases, including schema design, query tuning, and safe data movement.
Nice to have
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and GitOps (Argo CD).
- Prior delivery in classified or otherwise regulated government environments.
Tools
Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Argo CD
AI focus
Use AI coding agents and LLM tooling to develop and ship software; the role may also involve building machine learning or agentic systems.
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