Traversal
AI Engineer - Product Engineer
New York · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$300kDetected 36 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsTailwind CSSFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisAWSKubernetesDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringAPI DevelopmentData VisualizationLLMsAgentic AIUI DesignResearchCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- This role will focus on the ability to work across the full pipeline of our product, and someone who can have a strong product sense while also being comfortable working around AI and data processing infrastructure will be the best fit.
Responsibilities
- User Experience: Innovate and drive the evolution of UX/UI design, rapidly iterating based on user feedback to improve overall usability.
- Agent Development: Build AI agents with a mind for user-experience and capabilities like long-horizon work, proactiveness, readability, and evidence citation.
- API Development: Design and implement high-performance APIs to enable seamless communication between backend systems and frontend interfaces.
- AI Integration: Collaborate with AI engineers/researchers to integrate AI-driven insights and solutions into backend systems, and take ownership of API authentication and authorization frameworks.
- Data Visualization: Develop intuitive interfaces for presenting and interacting with complex time-series and topological data.
- Innovate and drive the evolution of UX/UI design, rapidly iterating based on user feedback to improve overall usability.
- Build AI agents with a mind for user-experience and capabilities like long-horizon work, proactiveness, readability, and evidence citation.
- Design and implement high-performance APIs to enable seamless communication between backend systems and frontend interfaces.
- Develop intuitive interfaces for presenting and interacting with complex time-series and topological data.
- From the user interface to the backend and infrastructure, you'll develop product components to enable real-time incident detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation in some of the most complex production environments.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on full-stack systems.
- Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and TailwindCSS to build fast, responsive, and maintainable frontends.
- Experience deploying applications on AWS, working with ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage.
- If you have deep experience in a subset of these areas, we encourage you to apply.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Python-based ecosystems is a plus.
- Experience working with Agentic AI systems or in the observability domain.
- Background in large-scale, complex, data-driven applications.
- Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park.
- This is a place to grow your career, make a real impact, and help define a new category of infrastructure software.
Skills
- Ensure efficient data storage, retrieval, and processing, leveraging technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, or others.
Compensation
- We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits.
- The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $150,000-$300,000, plus equity and benefits.
- Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role.
- Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- We offer competitive salary and equity packages, and take thoughtful consideration with every hire on our small, high-impact team.
- Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
Benefits
- We'll make sure you're fully supported with health insurance, a great tech setup, flexible time off, and plenty of in-office snacks.
- Working here means owning meaningful parts of the product, having the flexibility to move fast, and learning constantly.
Company info
- Traversal https://www.traversal.com/ is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents.
- Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work.
- Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise.
- Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from
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