Navan
Senior Software Engineer, AI
New York, NY · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$113k-$252kDetected 4 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaNode.jsDistributed SystemsMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI Orchestration
About the role
- To determine a successful candidate's starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate's skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.
- Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-Powered Product Experiences: Design and develop agentic workflows that help users view, understand, connect, and manage their loyalty programs through chat, wallet surfaces, and personalized recommendations.
- Develop Production AI Systems: Build reliable LLM-powered flows with structured outputs, tool calling, guardrails, human confirmation, evals, and monitoring for real customer-facing use cases.
- Own Agent and Workflow Quality: Create and maintain scenario tests, adversarial evals, prompt/tool contracts, and quality metrics that ensure agents behave safely around loyalty data, PII, financial guidance, and unsupported requests.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product, design, backend, data, and platform teams to ship polished, measurable customer experiences.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience building production systems, with meaningful hands-on experience in AI, LLM, agent, workflow, or ML-powered products.
- Experience building agentic systems, tool-calling workflows, RAG-like systems, structured LLM outputs, eval pipelines, or AI assistants in production.
- Navan is building the next generation of intelligent travel experiences, where loyalty, personalization, and AI agents help travelers make better decisions before, during, and after every trip.
- As a Senior Software Engineer, AI on the Loyalty Wallet team, you'll build agentic product experiences that understand a traveler's loyalty programs, surface useful insights, and safely help users manage their memberships through Navan Edge.
- Design and develop agentic workflows that help users view, understand, connect, and manage their loyalty programs through chat, wallet surfaces, and personalized recommendations.
- Build reliable LLM-powered flows with structured outputs, tool calling, guardrails, human confirmation, evals, and monitoring for real customer-facing use cases.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, async workflows, caching, observability, and production debugging.
- Comfort working with AI safety patterns such as guardrails, HITL confirmation, deterministic tool boundaries, hallucination prevention, and PII-sensitive workflows.
- Product mindset and ability to translate ambiguous user needs into robust, user-facing experiences.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with travel, loyalty programs, personalization, fintech, or consumer data products is a strong plus.
Compensation
- $113,400 - $252,000 USD
Company info
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