Staff Software Engineer, Agent Engineering

Staff Software Engineer, Agent Engineering - US Remote

Company: TRM Labs

TRM Labs seeks a Staff Software Engineer focused on agent engineering to build next-generation AI applications. The role emphasizes Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic systems deployed with speed, safety, and scale across petabyte-scale pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect robust agentic frameworks supporting tool use, context retrieval, memory, and planning
• Build modular agents automating investigative tasks while augmenting analyst capabilities
• Extend and scale LLM infrastructure including prompt engineering, RAG, and evaluation loops
• Design safe, observable, auditable agent behaviors for high-sensitivity environments
• Evaluate performance metrics including reasoning quality, latency, success rates, and hallucination
• Foster high ownership, rapid experimentation, and ethical AI deployment culture

Required Qualifications

• Strong backend/systems engineering background (Python preferred)
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs, agents, and tooling frameworks
• Comfort optimizing agentic pipelines and information flow
• Thoughtful system design emphasizing safety, scalability, explainability
• High product empathy focused on real user impact
• Bias toward experimentation and rapid iteration

Nice-to-Have: Knowledge graphs, task orchestration, AI safety experience

Compensation: $200,000-$275,000 base (US) plus equity plan eligibility

Location: San Francisco office; 3+ days/week on-site required

TRM is a Series C company ($220M funding) providing blockchain analytics and AI for law enforcement, financial institutions, and crypto businesses. AI fluency is baseline expected.