Blockchain Intelligence Analyst (Transnational Crime Organizations)

Location: Remote; United States, London, United Kingdom, or EMEA. Working hours should overlap with both UK and US business hours.

Salary: $115,000–$168,333 in the United States; £85,770–£125,527 equivalent range in the United Kingdom. Equity offered.

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered blockchain intelligence solutions that help public- and private-sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime.

What you will do

• Produce finished intelligence on transnational criminal organizations, vendors, facilitators, laundering pathways, and attribution assessments.
• Lead end-to-end blockchain investigations from seed indicators through full attribution.
• Trace illicit proceeds across blockchains, bridges, mixers, peel chains, nested services, OTC desks, ATM networks, and cash-to-crypto services.
• Correlate on-chain activity with OSINT, closed-source intelligence, identity signals, infrastructure data, and adversary behavior.
• Own investigative workstreams through discovery, validation, and source-cited written production.
• Collaborate with law-enforcement partners, support briefings, mentor peers, and improve investigative methodologies and repeatable workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in blockchain intelligence, crypto investigations, financial-crime or narcotics investigations, threat intelligence, or a comparable senior analytical role.
• Deep hands-on experience tracing funds across multiple blockchains and through mixers, chain-hopping, bridges, peel chains, and layered cash-out behavior.
• Ability to independently run complex investigations and synthesize findings into assessments, lead packages, fund-flow analyses, and attribution reports.
• Ability to communicate technically complex findings as clear, actionable intelligence for government and private-sector audiences.
• Sound judgment, curiosity, and the ability to deliver work that withstands scrutiny in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience using AI tools and large language models to accelerate research and analytical workflows, with the ability to critically evaluate generated outputs.
• Working hours must overlap with both UK and US business hours.

Nice to have

• Experience in government, national security, law enforcement, or a mature private-sector investigations or threat-intelligence program.
• Familiarity with darknet markets, drug-trafficking networks, OTC and ATM laundering, OSINT, and off-chain signals.
• Experience with investigative platforms such as TRM, Maltego, Palantir, or similar structured-data environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed, async-first team using Slack and Notion, with structured weekly syncs.
• High autonomy, high standards, low bureaucracy, and direct collaboration with analysts, engineers, customers, and law-enforcement partners.
• Surge availability is expected when partners need a fast turnaround.
• Fast-moving, high-ownership environment focused on ambiguity, rigorous execution, continuous feedback, and meaningful public-safety problems.
• Equity is offered with the compensation package.

Hiring process

• Apply directly and provide accurate answers to the application questions, highlighting relevant experience and impact.
• Process may include a recruiter introduction, hiring-manager interview, skills interviews, a hands-on case study, references, an AI skills assessment, and a Leadership Principles interview.
• Use of external AI tools during interviews is not permitted without prior approval.