Traversal
AI Engineer - Product Engineer
New York · Mid · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$15,589 more — $165,589 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,589 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- This is prompt and tool architecture, not prompt tweaking: what the agent sees, when it acts, what it does with ambiguity, and how we measure whether a change made it better.
- Live Surface Area: Getting agent intelligence into the places engineers already work, in real time.
- Slack channels, the web app, and whatever comes next.
Responsibilities
- Agent Development: Build AI agents with a mind for user experience and capabilities like long-horizon work, proactiveness, resilience, readability, and evidence citation.
- User Experience: Innovate and drive the evolution of AI UX/UI design, rapidly iterating based on user feedback to improve overall usability.
- Harness and Context Engineering: Design the tool interfaces, context assembly, and decision logic that determine how well the agent performs on real incidents.
- Evaluation: Build the eval harnesses and offline datasets that let us ship agent changes with confidence rather than vibes.
- Live Delivery: Design and implement the streaming, orchestration, and API layers that carry agent output into Slack and the product in real time.
- Data and Infrastructure: Own efficient storage, retrieval, and processing across PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and S3, in support of agents operating on large-scale time-series and topological data.
- Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap.
- 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.
- We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on full-stack or backend systems.
- Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Comfort working in a React and TypeScript codebase, enough to ship a feature end to end without waiting on someone else for the frontend.
- 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
- Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal.
- Background in observability, monitoring, or incident response tooling, as a builder or a heavy user.
- Experience running evals for LLM systems, or otherwise bringing measurement discipline to non-deterministic software.
- Background in large-scale, complex, data-driven applications.
- Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- Traversal is a place to take on hard, meaningful problems with real ownership from day one.
- You'll work alongside people who challenge you to grow, learn constantly, and help define a new category of infrastructure software.
- We think long term, move quickly, and hold a high bar without taking ourselves too seriously.
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, health insurance, fertility benefits, a great tech setup stipend and flexible time off.
- Plus in-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, an annual company offsite, and plenty of built in time to collaborate across teams.
Company info
- Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.
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