Senior Software Engineer (Applied AI)

Senior • On-site

200,004 - 240,000 USD/yr

San Francisco, CA , +1

Traba is building an AI operating layer for the industrial supply chain, starting with workforce staffing and expanding into broader operational workflows. The role focuses on applying AI agents and frontier models across the staffing marketplace to automate sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement of workers at scale.

Description

You will build product features on top of AI agents, taking frontier models and existing agents and putting them to work across the staffing marketplace. This is a product-engineering-first role, requiring you to move across priorities such as automation agents, payments flows, and platform work. You will partner with the CTO on architecture and roadmap while building the platform that powers the company’s operations.

Responsibilities

Apply existing agents and frontier models across the stack (worker app, business app, ops platform, marketplace) to automate vetting, matching, and fulfillment
Lead frontend and backend development and mentor other engineers
Architect and build core systems including real-time matching, autonomous vetting pipelines, distributed systems, and APIs
Own product surfaces end-to-end in partnership with product and design

Requirements

5+ years of experience across frontend and backend development
Strong experience with TypeScript, React or React Native, and Node.js or Python
Solid understanding of APIs and distributed systems
Experience with PostgreSQL and messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or AI agents into production products (prompting, tool wiring, evaluations)
Proven experience shipping scalable products in fast-paced, early-stage environments

Benefits

Start-up equity
Competitive salary ($200,000–$240,000)
100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Dinner provided via DoorDash, free DashPass, and stocked kitchen for NY employees
Commuter benefit
Gympass benefit
One Medical membership
HSA via Optum
Talkspace
HealthAdvocate
Teledoc Health

Traba

Traba is a technology company operating in the light industrial staffing and supply chain sector. It is focused on reinventing how industrial businesses manage labor by building autonomous, AI-driven workflows that connect companies with vetted workers. With a mission to enable the global supply chain to operate at peak efficiency, Traba develops multi-agent AI systems to orchestrate job matching, worker vetting, and workforce management. Backed by prominent investors such as Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst, the company positions itself as an ambitious, high-growth startup driven by bold vision, strong work ethic, continuous learning, and deep customer obsession. Traba emphasizes innovation, resilience, and long-term impact as core values while aiming to transform the $50B light industrial flexible staffing market.

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