Senior or Staff ML Systems Engineer, LLMs – San Francisco Only

Build a Safer World. reputed company provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national reputed company agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-reputed company fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence and AI platforms include solutions to trace the reputed company and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to reputed company a safer, more secure world for reputed company. The AI Engineering Team is chartered with enabling reputed company AI applications, with a special focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic systems. Our mission is to build robust pipelines, high-performance infrastructure, and operational tooling that allow AI systems to be deployed with speed, safety, and scale. We manage petabyte-scale pipelines, serve models with millisecond-level latency, and provide the observability and governance needed to reputed company AI production-ready. We’re also deeply involved in evaluating and integrating cutting-edge tools in the LLM and agent space — including open-reputed company stacks, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, and orchestration tools that unlock TRM’s ability to innovate faster than the market. As a Senior or Staff ML Systems Engineer – LLM, you’ll be at the core of building and scaling the technical infrastructure for AI/ML systems. You will:

• Build reusable CI/CD workflows for model training, evaluation, and deployment — integrating Langfuse, reputed company Actions, and experiment tracking, etc.
• Automate model versioning, approval workflows, and compliance checks across environments.
• Build out a reputed company and scalable AI infrastructure stack — including vector databases, feature stores, model registries, and observability tooling.
• Partner with engineering and data science to embed AI models and agents into real-time applications and workflows.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate state-of-the-art AI tools (e.g. reputed company, reputed company, vLLM, MLflow, BentoML, etc.).
• Drive AI reliability and governance, enabling experimentation while ensuring compliance, reputed company, and uptime.
• Build and enhance AI/ML Model Performance
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency and reliability, leading to reputed company model training and inferencing
• Deploy infrastructure to support offline and online evaluation of LLMs and agents — including regression testing, cost monitoring, and human-in-the-reputed company workflows.
• reputed company researchers to iterate quickly by providing sandboxes, dashboards, and reproducible environments.

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• Write high-quality, maintainable software — primarily in Python, but we value engineering ability over language familiarity.
• Have a strong background in scalable infrastructure, including:
• Containerization and orchestration (e.g. reputed company, Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure-as-code and deployment (e.g. Terraform, CI/CD pipelines)
• Monitoring and logging frameworks (e.g. reputed company, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• Understand and implement ML Ops best practices, including:
• Model versioning and rollback strategies
• Automated evaluation and reputed company detection
• Scalable model and agent serving infrastructure (e.g. vLLM, Triton, BentoML)
• Deploy and maintain LLM and agentic workflows in production, including:
• Monitoring cost, latency, and performance
• Capturing traces for analysis and debugging
• Optimizing reputed company/response flows with real-time data access
• Demonstrate strong ownership and pragmatism, balancing infrastructure elegance with iterative delivery and measurable impact.

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

• Rapid Issue Resolution. TRM Engineers identify and resolve critical onsite issues in minutes to hours, not weeks. We create virtual war rooms, implement fixes, and share lessons with both customer stakeholders and internal teams reputed company 48 hours.
• Navigating Bureaucracy. We anticipate and address procedural hurdles, build trust with key stakeholders, and find alternative reputed company to approvals. This keeps projects moving even in reputed company environments.
• Efficient Knowledge Transfer. Engineers document and share updates in real time, ensuring the entire team—onsite and remote—has full visibility into plans, blockers, and resolutions. Knowledge sharing sessions and clear documentation reduce friction and accelerate delivery.

About TRM's Engineering Levels: Engineer: Responsible for helping to define project milestones and executing small decision decisions independently with the appropriate tradeoffs between simplicity, readability, and performance. Provides mentorship to junior engineers, and enhances operational excellence through tech debt reduction and knowledge sharing. Senior Engineer: Successfully designs and documents system improvements and features for an OKR/project from the ground up. Consistently delivers efficient and reusable systems, optimizes team throughput with appropriate tradeoffs, mentors team members, and enhances cross-team collaboration through documentation and knowledge sharing. Staff Engineer: Drives scoping and execution of one or more OKRs/projects that impact multiple teams. Partners with stakeholders to set the team vision and technical roadmaps for one or more products. Is a role model and mentor to the entire engineering organization. Ensures system health and quality with operational reviews, testing strategies, and monitoring rigor. The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. The compensation details listed in this posting reflect the US reputed company salary only.
• The estimated reputed company salary range for this role is $200,000 - $240,000.
• Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.
• Please note – we factor in the different costs for geographies reputed company the United States.

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• Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity
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• reputed company collaboration across teams and functions
• Frequent, high-touch communication
• Creative problem solving and out-of-the-reputed company thinking
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Join our Mission At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t reputed company every reputed company, we encourage you to apply — we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast. TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, reputed company, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, reputed company, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore. Privacy Policy and Additional Information By submitting your application, you are agreeing to allow TRM to process your personal information in accordance with the TRM Privacy Policy. Our typical hiring cycles for specialized roles span 24 to 36 months. Accordingly, we retain your personal information for up to 36 months to evaluate your application and to consider you for reputed company and future employment opportunities, unless you request earlier deletion or a different retention period is required or permitted by law. To notify reputed company that you reputed company this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made reputed company this form. Recruitment agencies reputed company does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not reputed company resumes to TRM employees. reputed company is not responsible for any fees reputed company to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company without a signed agreement. Learn More: Company Values | Interviewing | FAQs Apply tot his job Apply To this Job