Staff Software Engineer, Agent Engineering - US Remote

TRM Labs
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Teamwork","Problem-solving","Ownership"]

Lead the design and deployment of agentic AI systems, building robust, scalable back-end and tool-using agents for investigations. Work with LLMs, LangChain, vector databases, and safety-focused design to empower analysts, optimize information flow, and iterate quickly in a high-ownership, collaborative environment.

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TRM Labs
TRM Labs
5 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Agent Engineering - US Remote

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Job Summary

Lead the design and deployment of agentic AI systems, building robust, scalable back-end and tool-using agents for investigations. Work with LLMs, LangChain, vector databases, and safety-focused design to empower analysts, optimize information flow, and iterate quickly in a high-ownership, collaborative environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and implement a robust agentic framework that supports tool use, context retrieval, memory, and planning
  • •Build intelligent, modular agents that automate investigative tasks and augment analyst decision-making
  • •Extend and scale our LLM infrastructure (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, local models), including prompt engineering, RAG, and evaluation loops
  • •Design safe, observable, and auditable agent behaviors — ensuring reliability in high-sensitivity environments
  • •Evaluate performance across metrics like reasoning, latency, success rate, and hallucination, and iterate based on user feedback and system telemetry

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong engineering background with deep experience in backend or systems work (Python preferred)
  • •Hands-on experience building with LLMs, agents, and tooling frameworks (LangChain, semantic caches, vector DBs, etc.)
  • •Comfort working with agentic pipelines and optimizing information flow into AI systems
  • •Thoughtful approach to system design, with an eye for safety, scalability, and explainability
  • •High product empathy - you care about how agents impact real users (analysts) and optimize accordingly
Experience:BlockchainAICybersecurity
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipTeamworkProblem-solvingOwnership
Tech Stack:PythonLangChainVector databasesOpenAIAnthropicRAGLLMs

Company Brief

TRM Labs
Provides blockchain intelligence and crypto risk management solutions to help financial institutions, governments, and crypto firms detect fraud, trace illicit activity, and comply with regulatory requirements across digital asset ecosystems.
Industry: RegTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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