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Software Engineer II – AI Agents & Harnesses

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1 month ago
Hartford, CT, USA or Atlanta, GA, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$120k - $199k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver production-grade harness capabilities for generative AI applications.
  • Drive architecture and system design for agentic components across multiple teams.
  • Embed with partner teams to accelerate high-priority agentic delivery and leave teams able to sustain the work.
  • Lead solution design, participate in stakeholder conversations, and build collective ownership across engineering, architecture, and product.
  • Advance test automation and improve the quality of the harness and the systems it supports.
  • Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and delivery bottlenecks.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute reusable capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
  • Translate technical direction into terms business stakeholders can act on.
  • Share harness patterns and practices through cross-organizational engineering events and technical forums.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including production delivery of AI solutions supported at scale.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with additional languages such as TypeScript for AI integrations.
  • Hands-on experience building, deploying, and evaluating generative AI applications, including orchestration, tool interfaces, context and memory management, and guardrails.
  • Experience with agentic coding tools and the ability to assess their strengths and limitations.
  • Experience with AWS and/or Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or CDK, and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
  • Experience designing, delivering, and maintaining large distributed production applications in enterprise settings, including third-party vendor software and secure-by-design development.
  • SME-level depth in multiple technical disciplines and the ability to work across unfamiliar codebases and multiple projects.
  • Strong communication skills for leading technical conversations with non-technical stakeholders and translating capabilities into business outcomes.
  • Experience with agentic runtimes and harness platforms such as AWS AgentCore.
  • Experience with open-source agent frameworks such as Strands Agents or LangGraph.
  • Experience deploying Kubernetes applications with Helm.
  • Experience with observability tooling and distributed tracing in production environments.
  • Experience applying zero-trust security principles to enterprise systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related STEM field, or equivalent education and/or work experience.
  • The posting also states a requirement for 4 additional years of software engineering experience.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage for eligible employees and family members begins on the first day of employment.
  • Travelers matches 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to the first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum.
  • Employees may participate in the Paying it Forward Savings Program for student loan payments.
  • A pension plan is 100% funded by Travelers.
  • At least 20 days of paid time off annually plus nine paid company holidays.
  • Wellness resources, discounts, caregiving support, and free professional counseling and mental health resources.
  • Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programs.
  • The role is a full-time employee position; no remote or hybrid work arrangement is stated.

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