# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Traba](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/traba)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, APIs, Distributed Systems, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Evaluation Frameworks, Mcp Servers, Retrieval, Structured Outputs, Orchestration
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Build and deploy production AI-agent systems, including their harnesses, evaluations, orchestration, and supporting services. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, production LLM or agent experience, and strong Python or TypeScript/Node.js skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Embed with customers and operators to understand supply-chain workflows, then design and ship agents that automate meaningful work.
- Build production agent systems on frontier large language models, including tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, structured outputs, MCP servers, and orchestration.
- Own evaluation as a first-class discipline, including datasets from real traces, rubrics, graders, experiments, and measurable improvements.
- Architect the data, services, and APIs supporting the agent layer.
- Integrate internal systems with customer WMS, TMS, and ERP environments.
- Codify repeatable deployment patterns to accelerate customer rollouts.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- 1+ year shipping LLM- or agent-based features into production.
- Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills.
- Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models in PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience with production-scale prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, orchestration patterns, and frontier model APIs.
- Experience building in fast, ambiguous environments, ideally at a vertical AI, AI-agent, forward-deployed, or data-product company.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range: $200,000–$240,000.
- Startup equity.
- 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Dinner via DoorDash, free DashPass, and stocked kitchen for New York employees.
- Commuter benefit.
- Gympass benefit.
- One Medical membership, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, and Teladoc Health.

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