# Software Engineer (AI Agents) [Traba](https://www.jorb.ai/firms/traba.md) · New York · United States · [Backend](https://www.jorb.ai/jobs/backend.md) Traba is hiring a Software Engineer (AI Agents) in New York. Posted 2026-06-30; applications close 2026-08-29. **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traba/e1761ab2-21f1-46d6-8c69-9b4a73d9430f Posted 22d ago. ## Role details ## About You - **Builder with an AI operator's instinct.** You've shipped real product on top of LLMs—not just chat wrappers. You've designed agent harnesses, structured tools, written evals, and tuned prompts against production traces. You think in capability, reliability, and unit economics—not just whether the model says the right thing. - **Domain-immersed.** You enjoy time with the people who do the work—learning an industry's vocabulary, edge cases, and operational tempo—and let that shape what you build. - **High-agency in ambiguity.** Dropped into a fuzzy customer problem with a half-formed hypothesis and a deadline, you scope, build, evaluate, and ship without waiting for a spec. - **Sweat both ends of the stack.** You move between prompt iteration, eval design, backend services, and customer-facing UI in the same week, and you care about evals that catch regressions and traces that are easy to debug. ## You Will - Embed with customers and operators to understand how supply chains run today—then design and ship agents that take meaningful work off their plate. - Build production agent systems on frontier LLMs: tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, structured outputs, MCP servers, and the orchestration that ties them together. - Own evaluation as a first-class discipline—datasets from real traces, rubrics and graders, experiments, and improvements you can prove move the needle. - Architect the data, services, and APIs the agent layer depends on—integrating our internal systems with customers' WMS, TMS, and ERP environments. - Codify repeatable deployment patterns so each new customer rollout is faster than the last. ## You Have - 1+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping LLM- or agent-based features to production. - Strong in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, and comfortable designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models in PostgreSQL. - Hands-on with the modern agent stack: production-scale prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, orchestration patterns, and frontier model APIs. - A track record of building in fast, ambiguous environments—ideally at a vertical AI, AI-agent, forward-deployed, or data-product company. - Excellent written and verbal communication—you can run a customer workshop in the morning and write a clean design doc in the afternoon. ## 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 ## Salary Range Details The compensation range for this position is set between $140,000 and $200,000, reflecting our market analysis and other relevant considerations. However, exceptions may be made for candidates with qualifications that significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. ## Equal Opportunity Employer Traba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. ## Our Values **Dream Big -** We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. **Olympian’s Work Ethic -** Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field. **Growth Mindset -** We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience. **Customer Obsession -** We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve this massive and overlooked industries’ problems Job Applicant Privacy Notice ## Applying to this role This Software Engineer (AI Agents) role at Traba runs through the firm's own careers portal and expects a CV and cover letter written specifically for the posting, not a portable submission carried across firms. Jorb AI's application agent tailors a CV and cover letter from your background to this posting and tracks the role alongside the rest of your applications. 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