Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

The role

You will build the AI agents, harnesses, evals, orchestration, and model strategy for Traba's agentic platform. You will architect the platform end-to-end and partner with the CTO on the multi-year roadmap.

What you will do

• Architect Traba's agent platform end-to-end
• Own foundational technical decisions including model strategy and harness design
• Spend time in the field with customers and operators
• Build evaluation as an engineering discipline
• Hire and mentor engineers
• Partner with the CTO, product, and ops leadership on the platform roadmap

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering
• 2+ years of hands-on production work on LLM- or agent-based systems
• Deep in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js
• 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
• History of leading 0-to-1 builds in early-stage environments
• Strong written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Background that maps to at least one of: vertical AI / AI-agent company, a forward-deployed engineering role, or an AI-native data company
• Supply chain, logistics, or industrial exposure

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
• One Medical Membership
• HSA via Optum
• Talkspace
• HealthAdvocate
• Teledoc Health

About the company

Traba is building the AI operating system for the industrial supply chain. They provide industrial businesses with consistent, reliable temporary workforces and AI agents to automate manual workflows.