2 days ago
Base Salary
$240k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build Traba’s agent platform, including the orchestration runtime, evaluation and observability stack, and integrations with internal and customer systems.
- Own model strategy, harness design, retrieval and memory architecture, tool/MCP surfaces, and quality measurement.
- Build evaluation infrastructure with datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tooling.
- Work directly with customers and operators to understand warehouse and industrial workflows and convert those insights into durable product and deployment patterns.
- Set technical direction through hands-on implementation, foundational tool selection, model-provider integration, and canonical examples.
- Hire and mentor engineers and establish engineering quality standards.
- Partner with the CTO, product, and operations leadership on the multi-year platform roadmap.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on production experience with LLM- or agent-based systems.
- Deep experience with Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models using PostgreSQL and modern messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Demonstrated ownership of a non-trivial production agent system covering orchestration, tool use, retrieval, evaluations, observability, and cost or latency tuning.
- Background in vertical AI, AI-agent companies, forward-deployed engineering, or AI-native data companies; supply-chain, logistics, or industrial experience is a bonus.
- Experience leading 0-to-1 builds in early-stage environments and operating effectively with ambiguity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including customer workshops, design documents, and recruiting future teammates.
Benefits
- Start-up equity.
- Competitive salary.
- 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Dinner provided via DoorDash, free DashPass, and a stocked kitchen for New York employees.
- Commuter benefit.
- Gympass benefit.
- One Medical membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, and Teledoc Health.
Tech Stack
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About Traba
Traba builds an AI-driven marketplace and staffing platform that connects light industrial businesses—such as distribution centers and manufacturing lines—with reliable hourly workers. The company monetizes through a two-sided marketplace and staffing services tailored to enterprise operations. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City, it raised a Series A in 2023 and is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.