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title: 'Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents) at Traba'
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# Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents) at Traba

- **Company:** Traba
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traba/312dd84f-03e0-4787-925d-80ac516a56e4

## Job description

Traba is building the AI operating system for the industrial supply chain - the network of warehouses, manufacturers, logistics providers, and workers behind the physical goods people rely on every day.

We started by tackling labor, supplying industrial businesses with consistent, reliable temporary workforces, and quickly became the fastest growing staffing company in America.

Since then, we've expanded our suite of AI agents to help logistics providers, manufacturers, 3PLs, and other industrial businesses fully automate their manual workflows, derive insights from their data streams, and transform their decision intelligence.

Our mission is to build a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency.

We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

You'll build the AI agents themselves—the harnesses, evals, orchestration, and model strategy the rest of Traba's product runs on. We're seeking an entrepreneurial Senior AI Agent Engineer to join as a founding member of the Agents team and build the next layer of Traba's product—an agentic platform that synthesizes the data flowing through our marketplace and operates autonomously inside our customers' supply chain workflows. (Our Applied AI team puts these agents to work across the product; you own the agents and infrastructure they depend on.) You'll embed deeply in our customers' operations, design and ship production agent harnesses on top of frontier models, and turn what you learn in the field into durable product. You will partner closely with our CTO, product, and our operators to take 0-to-1 ideas to scaled deployments.

## ABOUT YOU

- Builder with an AI operator's instinct. You've shipped real product on top of LLMs—not just chat wrappers. You've designed agent harnesses, structured tools, written evals, and tuned prompts against production traces. You think in capability, reliability, and unit economics—not just whether the model says the right thing.
- Domain-immersed. You enjoy time with the people who do the work—learning an industry's vocabulary, edge cases, and operational tempo—and let that shape what you build.
- High-agency in ambiguity. Dropped into a fuzzy customer problem with a half-formed hypothesis and a deadline, you scope, build, evaluate, and ship without waiting for a spec.
- Sweat both ends of the stack. You move between prompt iteration, eval design, backend services, and customer-facing UI in the same week, and you care about evals that catch regressions and traces that are easy to debug.

## YOU WILL

- Embed with customers and operators to understand how supply chains run today—then design and ship agents that take meaningful work off their plate.
- Build production agent systems on frontier LLMs: tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, structured outputs, MCP servers, and the orchestration that ties them together.
- Own evaluation as a first-class discipline—datasets from real traces, rubrics and graders, experiments, and improvements you can prove move the needle.
- Architect the data, services, and APIs the agent layer depends on—integrating our internal systems with customers' WMS, TMS, and ERP environments.
- Codify repeatable deployment patterns so each new customer rollout is faster than the last.

## YOU HAVE

- 5+ years of software engineering, with 1+ year shipping LLM- or agent-based features into production.
- Strong in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, and comfortable designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models in PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on with the modern agent stack: production-scale prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, orchestration patterns, and frontier model APIs.
- A track record of building in fast, ambiguous environments—ideally at a vertical AI, AI-agent, forward-deployed, or data-product company.
- Excellent written and verbal communication—you can run a customer workshop in the morning and write a clean design doc in the afternoon.

## BENEFITS

- 📈 Start-up equity
- 💰 Competitive Salary
- 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
- 🍽️ Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
- 🚍 Commuter benefit
- 🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit
- ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

## SALARY RANGE DETAILS

The compensation range for this position is set between $200,000 and $240,000, reflecting our market analysis and other relevant considerations. However, exceptions may be made for candidates with qualifications that significantly differ from those outlined in the job description.

## EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Traba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.

## OUR VALUES

Dream Big - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.

Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.

Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.

Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve this massive and overlooked industries’ problems

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## About Traba

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Traba delivers labor and intelligence for the industrial supply chain, connecting businesses with reliable workers and automating operations through its AI platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Mike Shebat (Co-Founder & CEO), Akshay Buddiga (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Light industrial staffing and supply chain technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – industrial businesses in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, fulfillment, food production, and distribution
- **Mission or purpose**: Empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential; build a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency.

## Products & Services
- **Staffing Solutions**: A tech-powered platform that vets, matches, and schedules reliable light industrial workers for open shifts, with a 98% show rate and 1–2 day time-to-fill on average. Available for long-term, permanent, and seasonal assignments.
- **Neo (Intelligence Platform)**: An AI layer that reads across a company’s existing systems (HRIS, WMS, ERP, TMS, etc.), learns workflows and SOPs, surfaces operational insights, and automates problem resolution before issues hit the floor.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $4.3M (LinkedIn estimate); 400K workers on platform; 173 employees (+35.9% YoY)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst
- **Growth Signals**: 5X revenue growth year-over-year; 91% week-over-week worker consistency; operations in 5 countries (US, Mexico, Philippines, Colombia, Canada); 35 open job postings as of mid-2026; expanding AI product (Neo) across customer stacks.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Tech-first approach**: Combines a modern staffing platform with an AI intelligence layer (Neo) that integrates with existing enterprise systems, unlike traditional staffing agencies.
- **High reliability**: 98% show rate, 24/7 support with dedicated CSMs, and no-show coverage.
- **Consistent workforce**: 91% week-over-week worker consistency on average.
- **Vetted talent**: All workers are U.S. work-eligible and background-checked.

## Strategic Focus
- **Disrupt the global supply chain**: Starting with labor staffing, then expanding Neo as a broader operational intelligence platform.
- **Product expansion**: Continue building Neo to automate more workflows and uncover efficiency gains.
- **Market growth**: Launching in new geographies and customer verticals (manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce fulfillment).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “High-slope individuals” – the company seeks top 1% talent, often from Uber, Google, Meta, DoorDash, Palantir, etc. Emphasis on growth mindset, customer obsession, and long-term thinking.
- **Team**: Flat structure with significant impact per person; 79% of employees in operations, 19% in technical roles.
- **Benefits**: Early stage startup equity, 100% paid health/dental/vision, Wellhub (Gympass) membership, One Medical, DoorDash dinner for NYC office, flexible PTO, parental leave, commuter benefit, HSA, mental health benefits (Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc).
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office presence in NYC (HQ) and Miami; remote not explicitly stated but likely role-dependent. Engineering teams work on fast-turnaround product development.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling company with 5X revenue growth and expanding headcount.

## Sources
1. [traba.work](https://traba.work/)
2. [traba.work/company/careers](https://traba.work/company/careers)
3. [traba.work/company/about](https://traba.work/company/about)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/traba](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traba)
5. [linkedin.com/company/traba-work](https://www.linkedin.com/company/traba-work)

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