AI Agent Engineer — LLMs, Safe Automation & Scale

TRM Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs in San Francisco is seeking to advance AI engineering with a focus on large language models and agentic systems. This team builds robust pipelines, high-performance infrastructure, and tooling to deploy AI at speed, Safety, and scale for investigations and risk management.

You will architect an intelligent agent framework, develop modular agents to assist investigators, and extend the LLM stack with prompt engineering, retrieval, and evaluation loops.

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

Job description

TRM Labs in San Francisco is seeking to advance AI engineering with a focus on large language models and agentic systems. This team builds robust pipelines, high-performance infrastructure, and tooling to deploy AI at speed, Safety, and scale for investigations and risk management.

You will architect an intelligent agent framework, develop modular agents to assist investigators, and extend the LLM stack with prompt engineering, retrieval, and evaluation loops.