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AI Research Engineer at Traversal

Department: Research

Compensation

$180,000 – $300,000/yr

Location
New York, New York
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Traversal is hiring an AI Research Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure supporting research on LLM agents, including experiment harnesses, evaluation pipelines, debugging tooling, and production-ready prototypes. The role partners with researchers to design experiments, evaluate agent behavior, and translate improvements into production systems. It requires 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, experimentation experience, Python and FastAPI skills, and experience with AWS, ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres, and S3. The full-time, in-person role is based in New York and offers a base salary of $180,000–$300,000 plus equity and benefits.

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