Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Traba is the AI operating layer for the industrial supply chain. We started in workforce—temp staffing, the biggest operational pain point for the manufacturing and logistics customers we serve—and used it to embed ourselves inside their daily operations and create a far better customer experience through technology. Now those same customers are pulling us beyond staffing into the broader operational workflows that run their facilities. That foundation gave us proprietary data from millions of shifts and deep enterprise relationships. By connecting to the systems running across every facility and activating the workers already on our platform to execute against them, we are building applied AI that drives productivity gains and transforms how the global supply chain operates at scale.

We are backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

You'll build the AI agents themselves—the harnesses, evals, orchestration, and model strategy the rest of Traba's product runs on. We're seeking an entrepreneurial Staff Agent Engineer to join as a founding member of the Agents team and lead the development of Traba's agentic platform.

About You

You've built agents that survived contact with reality. You've shipped agent systems into production at scale—designed the harness, picked the orchestration patterns, owned the evals, and lived with the on-call.

You're comfortable learning operational workflows and translating them into scalable technical architecture.

You raise the bar by shipping production-quality systems, integrating model providers, and designing evaluation infrastructure.

You care deeply about eval datasets, prompt versioning, observability, and clean abstractions.

Responsibilities

• Architect the agent platform end-to-end, including orchestration runtime, eval and observability stack, and integrations with WMS, TMS, and ERP systems.
• Own technical decisions around model strategy, harness design, retrieval and memory architecture, and tool/MCP interfaces.
• Work directly with customers and operators to translate operational workflows into scalable deployment patterns.
• Build evaluation infrastructure including datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tooling.
• Hire and mentor engineers while setting engineering quality standards.
• Partner with leadership on the long-term platform roadmap.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience owning orchestration, retrieval, evals, observability, and cost/latency optimization for production agent systems.
• Experience leading 0-to-1 builds in early-stage environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Start-up equity
• Competitive salary
• 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

Salary Range

The compensation range for this position is between $240,000 and $300,000.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Traba evaluates all applicants without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics and encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Our Values

• Dream Big
• Olympian’s Work Ethic
• Growth Mindset
• Customer Obsession