TRM Labs
Staff Agent Engineer - US Remote
$200K–$275K
United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 5, 2026
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of agentic AI systems and infrastructure that automate investigative work and support analyst decisions safely and reliably.
What you'll do
- Architect agent frameworks for tool use, retrieval, memory, and planning; build modular agents for investigative tasks.
- Scale LLM infrastructure and develop prompts, RAG, and evaluation loops.
- Design and evaluate safe, observable, auditable agent behavior using performance metrics and user feedback.
What they ask for
- Strong backend or systems engineering background; Python preferred.
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs, agents, and tooling frameworks.
- Comfort working with agentic pipelines and optimizing information flow into AI systems.
- Thoughtful system design focused on safety, scalability, and explainability.
Nice to have
- Experience with knowledge graphs, task orchestration, or AI safety.
Pay
$200,000 - $275,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, vector DBs
AI focus
Builds and operates LLM-based agents for investigations, including tool use, retrieval, memory, planning, RAG, evaluation, and safe deployment.
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