Traba

Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$240k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build Traba’s agent platform, including orchestration runtime, evaluation and observability stack, customer and internal system integrations, and reusable agent patterns.
  • Own model strategy, harness design, retrieval and memory architecture, tool/MCP surface, and quality measurement.
  • Develop evaluation datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tooling.
  • Work directly with customers and operators to translate operational requirements into durable product and deployment patterns.
  • 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, including 2+ years of hands-on production work on LLM- or agent-based systems.
  • Deep expertise in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, with experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models using PostgreSQL and modern messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a substantial 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 with high autonomy.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including customer workshops, design documentation, and recruiting.

Benefits

  • Start-up equity.
  • Competitive salary of $240,000-$300,000.
  • 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Dinner provided via DoorDash, free DashPass, and a stocked kitchen for New York employees.
  • Commuter benefit and Gympass benefit.
  • Additional benefits include One Medical Membership, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, and Teledoc Health.
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201-500 employees
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