Traversal

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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