diff --git a/backends/trtllm/src/backend.rs b/backends/trtllm/src/backend.rs
index 4696a964..4b92fe01 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/src/backend.rs
+++ b/backends/trtllm/src/backend.rs
@@ -103,13 +103,13 @@ impl TensorRtLlmBackend {
     pub fn new<P: AsRef<Path> + Send + 'static, PP: AsRef<Path> + Send + 'static>(
         tokenizer: Tokenizer,
         engine_folder: P,
-        _executor_worker_path: Option<PP>,
+        executor_worker_path: PP,
     ) -> Result<Self, TensorRtLlmBackendError> {
         Ok(TensorRtLlmBackend {
             tokenizer: Arc::new(tokenizer),
             backend: Arc::new(RwLock::new(create_tensorrt_llm_backend(
                 engine_folder.as_ref().to_str().unwrap(),
-                "",
+                executor_worker_path.as_ref().to_str().unwrap(),
             ))),
         })
     }
diff --git a/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs b/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs
index 5d989feb..013b4ad9 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs
+++ b/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs
@@ -56,12 +56,8 @@ struct Args {
     max_client_batch_size: usize,
     #[clap(long, env)]
     auth_token: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(
-        long,
-        env,
-        help = "Path to the TensorRT-LLM Orchestrator Worker binary"
-    )]
-    executor_worker: Option<PathBuf>,
+    #[clap(long, env, help = "Path to the TensorRT-LLM Orchestrator worker")]
+    executor_worker: PathBuf,
 }
 
 #[tokio::main]
@@ -123,13 +119,11 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), TensorRtLlmBackendError> {
         }
     }
 
-    if let Some(ref executor_worker) = executor_worker {
-        if !executor_worker.exists() {
-            return Err(TensorRtLlmBackendError::ArgumentValidation(format!(
-                "`executor_work` specified path doesn't exists: {}",
-                executor_worker.display()
-            )));
-        }
+    if !executor_worker.exists() {
+        return Err(TensorRtLlmBackendError::ArgumentValidation(format!(
+            "`executor_work` specified path doesn't exists: {}",
+            executor_worker.display()
+        )));
     }
 
     // Run server