Staff Applied AI Agent Engineer

Traba; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Traba is hiring a Staff Applied Agent Engineer to help lead the development of their innovative agentic platform. As a founding member of the Agents team, you'll work closely with the CTO to set architectural directions and ensure high-quality implementation of agent systems.

Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, particularly in Python and TypeScript, along with a strong background in distributed systems and operational insights. The role emphasizes practical engagement with customer operations to deliver impactful AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in building and shipping agent systems in production.
• Strong opinions on balancing prompting, fine-tuning, and code.
• Experience in vertical AI or AI-agent companies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Traba's agentic platform.
• Make core architectural decisions for agent design and deployment.
• Build evaluation as a discipline using datasets and experimentation tooling.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Education

7+ years of professional software engineering experience

2+ years of production work on LLM or agent-based systems

Tools

Orchestration tools

Observability tools

Job description

Traba is hiring a Staff Applied Agent Engineer to help lead the development of their innovative agentic platform. As a founding member of the Agents team, you'll work closely with the CTO to set architectural directions and ensure high-quality implementation of agent systems.

Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, particularly in Python and TypeScript, along with a strong background in distributed systems and operational insights. The role emphasizes practical engagement with customer operations to deliver impactful AI solutions.