Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Description

Traba is building an agentic AI platform that operates autonomously inside customers' supply chain workflows. As a Senior AI Agent Engineer and founding member of the Agents team, you will design and ship production agent harnesses on top of frontier models, embedding deeply in customer operations and turning field insights into durable product. You will partner closely with the CTO, product, and operators to take ideas from 0-to-1 through scaled deployments.

Responsibilities

• Embed with customers and operators to understand supply chain operations and design agents that remove meaningful work from their workflows.
• Build production agent systems on frontier LLMs, including tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, structured outputs, MCP servers, and orchestration.
• Own evaluation as a core discipline by creating datasets from real traces, defining rubrics and graders, running experiments, and driving measurable improvements.
• Architect the data, services, and APIs the agent layer depends on, integrating internal systems with customers' WMS, TMS, and ERP environments.
• Codify repeatable deployment patterns to accelerate new customer rollouts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ year shipping LLM- or agent-based features into production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models in PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with production-scale prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, orchestration patterns, and frontier model APIs.
• Track record of building in fast, ambiguous environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.