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Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Traba· EPD
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New York City, NY, San Francisco$240k - $300kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Staff Agent Engineer to lead the development of Traba's agentic platform, building the AI agents, evals, and model strategy that power Traba's AI-driven industrial workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Architect Traba's agent platform end-to-end—orchestration runtime, eval and observability stack, the integration layer to internal and customer systems (WMS/TMS/ERP), and the patterns every agent is built on.
  • Own the foundational technical decisions: model strategy, harness design, retrieval and memory architecture, tool/MCP surface, and how we measure quality.
  • Spend real time in the field with customers and operators—translating what you see into durable product and repeatable deployment patterns.
  • Build evaluation as a real engineering discipline—datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tooling.
  • Hire and mentor the engineers who build alongside you, and set the standard for what “good” looks like.
  • Partner with the CTO, product, and ops leadership on the multi-year platform roadmap.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years of hands-on production work on LLM- or agent-based systems.
  • Deep in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, with a track record designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models on PostgreSQL and modern messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent).
  • Demonstrated ownership of a non-trivial production agent system: orchestration, tool use, retrieval, evals, observability, and cost/latency tuning.
  • Background that maps to at least one of: vertical AI / AI-agent company, a forward-deployed engineering role, or an AI-native data company. Bonus for supply chain, logistics, or industrial exposure.
  • A history of leading 0-to-1 builds in early-stage environments—comfortable with ambiguity and high-agency by default.
  • Strong written and verbal communication—you can run a customer workshop, write the design doc, and recruit your future teammates.

Skills

Required:Agent platform architectureModel strategy and harness designEval infrastructure

Benefits

  • Start-up equity
  • Competitive Salary
  • 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, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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