Senior AML Investigator (Bitcoin)

Location: Remote, open to candidates located in Malta or the EU

Salary: €73K–€84K for Malta-based positions; compensation for other locations is location dependent

Company

hirify.global is a Bitcoin company building financial products for buying and selling bitcoin, paying bills, and borrowing against bitcoin holdings.

What you will do

• Lead high-risk and multi-jurisdictional investigations involving structuring, layering, sanctions evasion, and fraud.
• Perform on-chain tracing and attribution analysis across complex bitcoin flows, translating technical findings into clear conclusions.
• Act as the subject matter expert for bitcoin investigations, review junior investigators’ work, and serve as an escalation point.
• Draft defensible suspicious activity narratives and prepare filing packages for BSA Officer review.
• Identify emerging typologies and support monitoring rule design, threshold tuning, and false-positive reduction.
• Evaluate and shape the use of AI tooling in investigations while defining standards for human review and defensibility.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in AML, financial crime, or fraud investigations, including at least 2 years focused on blockchain or digital asset investigations.
• Demonstrated experience tracing multi-hop bitcoin activity, including peel chains, consolidations, change behavior, and nested services.
• Strong analytical judgment, written communication, SAR narrative, and case-file documentation skills.
• Working knowledge of BSA/AML obligations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and SAR filing standards.
• Hands-on experience with Chainalysis, TRM Labs, open-source research, and KYC or case-management tools.
• Fluent English is required; additional languages are an advantage.

Nice to have

• Experience applying AI tooling professionally to investigative work.
• Experience in a high-volume payments or digital asset environment.
• Additional language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Opportunity to influence compliance processes and critical business decisions.
• Equity in a high-growth startup for Malta-based positions.
• Cell phone and internet reimbursement for Malta-based positions.
• Flexible PTO, sick leave, and parental leave for Malta-based positions.
• No trading fees when buying and selling bitcoin on hirify.global.