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AI Engineer - Product Engineer

Join Traversal as a Product Engineer to enhance AI SRE agents in a fast-paced startup environment.

Location
New York
Compensation
$150k–$300k/yr
Level
mid
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 4 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago

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AI in the day-to-day

Traversal's AI SRE agents autonomously understand and reason across complex production environments.

Requirements

Experience
3+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Equity/Stock Options Flexible Time Off Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Product Engineer will focus on enhancing the AI SRE agent's functionality, ensuring it operates effectively in real-world production environments. Key skills include experience with agentic AI systems, proficiency in Python and web frameworks, and familiarity with cloud deployment on AWS. This position is ideal for someone with at least three years of software engineering experience, particularly in fast-paced startup settings where adaptability is crucial. Traversal's collaborative culture emphasizes ownership and innovation in tackling complex AI challenges.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Traversal's careers page October 31, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
  • Starts above 40% of 121 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States that list Python we track (median $150,000 across 53 companies). See Python salary trends
  • Python appears in 49.9% of 477 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States; FastAPI appears in 0.4% of 477 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the AI Engineer - Product Engineer role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in New York.
What's the salary range?
Traversal lists $150,000–$300,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 3 years of relevant experience for this AI Engineer - Product Engineer role.
Where is the role based?
Traversal is hiring for this position in New York.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, ECS, FastAPI, Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.
What seniority level is this role?
Traversal targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this AI Engineer - Product Engineer role at Traversal.

From the original posting

The Role

Our core product is our AI SRE agent. As a Product Engineer on the Agents team, you'll own how that agent behaves, where it shows up, and whether it holds up under real production load. That means working end-to-end on the harness and context engineering that shape agent reasoning, the streaming and orchestration layers that put it in front of engineers mid-incident, and the observability and evaluation systems that tell us whether any of it is actually working.

Three areas drive impact on this team:

  • Agent Behavior: Improving how the agent reasons, decides, and communicates through harness design and context engineering. 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. Streaming, orchestration, and long-running work that survives restarts and reconnects.

  • Stability at Scale: Our agents run for hours against noisy, high-volume customer telemetry. Making that reliable means observability into agent behavior, scalable data patterns, and systems that degrade gracefully instead of silently.

Each of these requires product vision and autonomy. You'll be deciding what to build as often as you're building it.

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.

  • Product Impact: Translate agent capability into features that reduce cognitive load for on-call engineers, iterating quickly on user feedback.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on full-stack or backend systems.

  • Hands-on experience building with agentic AI systems or LLM-powered products, including familiarity with tool use, context management, and the failure modes that come with both.

  • 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.

  • Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments, with limited resources, shifting priorities, and minimal structure.

You don't need to meet every requirement. 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.

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.

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