June 23, 2026

Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Senior • On-site

200,004 - 240,000 USD/yr

San Francisco, CA , +1

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.

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San Francisco, CA , +1

240,000 - 300,000 USD/yr

🏢 Summary: Staff Agent Engineer role focused on building and scaling an AI agent platform for industrial supply chain operations. The position involves designing orchestration, evaluation, observability, retrieval, and integration systems for production-grade LLM agents while partnering closely with leadership and customers. The role also includes mentoring engineers, defining model strategy, and driving 0-to-1 platform development in a high-growth environment. 🗂️ Requirements: 7+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years of production experience with LLM or agent-based systems, Strong Python or TypeScript/Node.js expertise, Experience designing distributed systems and APIs, Experience with PostgreSQL and messaging systems, Ownership of production agent systems including orchestration, retrieval, evals, and observability, Experience with model strategy, prompting, fine-tuning, and retrieval systems, Ability to build evaluation datasets and regression tooling, Experience in early-stage or 0-to-1 product environments, Strong written and verbal communication skills 📃 Skills: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, LLM, AI, APIs, MCP 🏢 Description: Traba is building an AI-driven operational platform for the industrial supply chain, expanding from workforce staffing into broader workflow automation across manufacturing and logistics facilities. We are seeking a Staff Agent Engineer to join as a founding member of the Agents team and lead development of the company’s agentic platform. The role focuses on building the AI agents, orchestration runtime, evaluation systems, observability stack, and integrations that power operational workflows at scale. You’ll partner closely with the CTO to define the architecture, model strategy, deployment patterns, and reliability standards for production AI agents. The position requires deep technical expertise combined with customer-facing operational understanding. About You - Built and deployed production-scale agent systems - Experience with orchestration, evals, retrieval, observability, and on-call ownership - Strong understanding of prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval, and code tradeoffs - Comfortable learning operational workflows directly from customer environments - Able to lead by example through hands-on technical execution - Strong focus on prompt versioning, evaluation datasets, and observability You Will - Architect the agent platform end-to-end including orchestration runtime, evaluation systems, observability, and integrations with internal and customer systems - Own foundational decisions around model strategy, retrieval, memory architecture, and tooling - Work directly with customers and operators to inform product and deployment decisions - Build datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tooling for evaluation workflows - Hire and mentor engineers while defining engineering quality standards - Partner with leadership on long-term platform roadmap and execution You Have - 7+ years of software engineering experience - 2+ years of hands-on production experience with LLM or agent-based systems - Strong expertise in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js - Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and PostgreSQL data models - Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ - Ownership of production agent systems including orchestration, retrieval, evals, observability, and latency/cost optimization - Background in vertical AI, AI-agent platforms, forward-deployed engineering, or AI-native data companies - Experience building 0-to-1 products in early-stage environments - Strong communication and collaboration skills Benefits - Start-up equity - Competitive salary - 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage - Dinner provided via DoorDash - Free DashPass - Stocked kitchen for NY employees - Commuter benefit - Gympass benefit - One Medical membership - HSA via Optum - Talkspace - HealthAdvocate - Teledoc Health Salary Range $240,000 - $300,000 Equal Opportunity Employer Traba evaluates applicants without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics and encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply.

Technology

Traba

Software Engineer (Applied AI)

Mid

On-site

New York City, NY

140,004 - 200,004 USD/yr

🏢 Summary: Product engineering role focused on applying AI agents and frontier models across staffing and operational workflows to automate vetting, matching, and fulfillment processes. The position involves full-stack development using React Native, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL while building scalable systems and polished user experiences in an early-stage environment. Candidates will work closely with leadership on product direction and foundational platform architecture. 🗂️ Requirements: 1+ years experience with TypeScript, 1+ years experience with React, 1+ years experience with React Native, 1+ years experience with Node.js, 1+ years experience with PostgreSQL, Experience integrating LLMs or AI agents into products, Ability to work in an early-stage, fast-iteration environment, Experience building full-stack applications, Strong front-end development skills 📃 Skills: TypeScript, React, ReactNative, Node.js, PostgreSQL, LLM, AI, JavaScript 🏢 Description: Traba is building AI-driven operational software for the industrial supply chain, focused on automating staffing and operational workflows through AI agents and applied machine learning. You'll build product features on top of AI agents and frontier models to automate sourcing, vetting, matching, and placing workers across millions of shifts. This is a product-engineering role that spans backend systems, frontend applications, and operational tooling. You will: - Apply existing agents and frontier models across the worker app, business app, operations platform, and marketplace. - Automate vetting, matching, and fulfillment workflows. - Write and review high-quality code across React Native apps, React/TypeScript web apps, and Node.js/PostgreSQL APIs. - Architect core systems including real-time matching and autonomous worker-vetting pipelines powered by ML and agents. - Partner with design to ship polished and intuitive user interfaces. About You: - You apply frontier models and existing agents into real products across the stack. - You focus on shipping reliable automation and solving high-priority problems. - You enjoy learning new languages and frameworks. - You can collaborate across product, design, and infrastructure. - You have strong frontend skills and experience with or interest in React Native. You Have: - 1+ years with TypeScript, React/React Native, Node.js, and/or PostgreSQL. - Experience integrating LLMs or agents into real products through prompting and tool integration, or strong willingness to learn. - Comfort working in an early-stage environment with ambiguity, self-direction, and rapid iteration. Benefits: - Start-up equity - Competitive salary - 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage - Dinner provided via DoorDash - Free DashPass - Stocked kitchen for NY employees - Commuter benefit - Gympass benefit - One Medical membership - HSA via Optum - Talkspace - HealthAdvocate - Teledoc Health Salary Range: - $140,000 - $200,000 Equal Opportunity Employer: Traba evaluates applicants without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics and encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. Our Values: - Dream Big - Olympian’s Work Ethic - Growth Mindset - Customer Obsession