Senior AI Agent Engineer

Traba

New York City, NY • 38m ago • On-site

Senior

On-site

200,000 - 240,000 USD/yr

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Quick Facts

  • Role: Senior AI Agent Engineer (founding member of the Agents team)

Description

You will build production AI agents for industrial supply-chain workflows, including the harnesses, evals, orchestration, and model strategy that power the product. The work includes embedding with customers and operators, designing agent systems on frontier LLMs (tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, structured outputs, MCP servers), and turning field learnings into durable product. You will own evaluation as a first-class discipline using datasets from real production traces.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with customers and operators to understand current workflows and identify opportunities for automation

  • Design and ship production agent systems on frontier LLMs (tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, structured outputs, MCP servers, orchestration)

  • Own agent evaluation: create datasets from real traces, define rubrics/graders, run experiments, and iterate based on measurable improvements

  • Architect the data, services, and APIs the agent layer depends on, integrating internal systems with customer WMS, TMS, and ERP

  • Codify repeatable deployment patterns to accelerate customer rollouts

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering

  • 1+ year shipping LLM- or agent-based features into production

  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js

  • Comfort designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models in PostgreSQL

  • Hands-on experience with the modern agent stack (production prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, orchestration patterns, frontier model APIs)

  • Track record of building in fast, ambiguous environments (vertical AI/agents/forward-deployed/data-product preferred)

  • Excellent written and verbal communication

Benefits

  • Startup equity

  • Competitive salary (range: $200,000–$240,000)

  • 100% paid health, dental & vision coverage

  • Dinner provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees

  • Commuter benefit

  • Gympass benefit

  • Additional: One Medical membership, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

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