Traversal

AI Engineer - Product Engineer

Traversal
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build AI agents with long-horizon work, proactive behavior, resilience, readability, and evidence citation.
  • Drive AI user experience and UI improvements through rapid iteration and user feedback.
  • Design tool interfaces, context assembly, and decision logic for agent performance.
  • Build evaluation harnesses and offline datasets for measuring agent changes.
  • Implement streaming, orchestration, and API layers that deliver agent output to Slack and the product in real time.
  • Own storage, retrieval, and processing across PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and S3 for large-scale time-series and topological data.
  • Translate agent capabilities into product features that reduce cognitive load for on-call engineers.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience focused on full-stack or backend systems.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems or LLM-powered products, including tool use, context management, and related failure modes.
  • Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI.
  • Comfort working in React and TypeScript codebases and shipping features end to end.
  • Experience deploying applications on AWS and working with ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres, and S3.
  • Ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments with limited resources, shifting priorities, and minimal structure.
  • Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal is preferred.
  • Background in observability, monitoring, incident response tooling, large-scale complex data-driven applications, or LLM evaluation is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and startup equity packages.
  • Health insurance and fertility benefits.
  • Technology setup stipend.
  • Flexible time off.
  • In-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, and an annual company offsite.
  • Full-time, in-person role based in New York near Madison Square Park, with five days per week in the office.

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About Traversal

51-200 employees
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