AI Agent Engineer - US Remote
TRM Labs · Remote · United States ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (US)
- Python + LLMs
- Senior/Staff level
- $200k-$275k base
- Equity eligible
Join the AI Engineering Team at TRM Labs to develop next-generation applications using Large Language Models and agentic systems. You will architect robust pipelines and operational tooling to deploy AI with speed, safety, and scale, helping agencies trace illicit activity and disrupt crime networks.
What you'll do
- Architect agentic frameworks supporting tool use, memory, and planning
- Build modular agents to automate investigative tasks for analysts
- Scale LLM infrastructure including prompt engineering and RAG loops
- Design observable and auditable agent behaviors for high-sensitivity environments
- Evaluate performance metrics like reasoning, latency, and hallucination rates
What you'll need
- Strong backend or systems engineering background, preferably in Python
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, and frameworks like LangChain
- Experience optimizing information flow in agentic pipelines
- Focus on system design regarding safety, scalability, and explainability
- Product empathy for optimizing agent impact on real users
Nice to have
- Experience with knowledge graphs
- Background in task orchestration
- Prior work in AI safety
Stack
- Python
- LLMs
- LangChain
- Vector DBs
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Based in the United States
- Distributed-first company culture
- High-velocity, high-ownership environment
What you get
- Base salary range $200,000 - $275,000
- Eligibility for equity plan
- Compensation adjusted for geography outside US
Hiring process
- Recruiter introductory call
- Hiring Manager deep dive interview
- 1-2 technical skill interviews
- Final round hands-on case study panel
- Reference checks
- Offer presentation