About the role
Applied AI
You will build Traba's product on top of AI agents and set the standard for how we do it. You will put frontier models and existing agents to work across our staffing marketplace to automate the pipeline that sources, vets, matches, and places workers on millions of shifts, then own the core backend services and platform it all runs on. The AI Agents team owns the agent platform itself; your job is to make it real across the product. This is a platform-engineering role, so priorities will shift: infrastructure one quarter, matching or scaling problems the next. You will join the founding team, partner with our CTO on key architectural decisions, and build the platform that the company runs on for the next several years.
About You
You wire frontier models and existing agents into production across the stack. You do not need to own the orchestration internals, but you know how to make them real, and you know which corners are safe to cut early on. You move easily from API design to deployment infrastructure, and you have designed performant, scalable systems with real expertise in APIs, data modelling, query optimisation, and distributed systems.
You Will
- Define how we apply agents across the stack to automate the staffing pipeline, and how the team builds with AI-assisted tooling.
- Architect and lead core systems, from real-time matching to autonomous vetting pipelines powered by ML and agents.
- Own platform architecture with an eye on what the company will need a year or two out.
- Drive backend performance, reliability, and scale.
AI Agents (Neo AI)
You will build the AI agents themselves: the harnesses, evals, orchestration, and model strategy that the rest of Traba's product depends on. We are looking for a Staff Agent Engineer to join as a founding member of the Agents team and lead development of Traba's agentic platform – the layer that synthesises data flowing through our marketplace, integrates with customers' operational systems, and acts autonomously inside the workflows that run their facilities. The Applied AI team puts these agents to work across the product; you own the agents, evals, and model strategy they depend on. You will partner with our CTO on the core architectural decisions around how agents are built, evaluated, and deployed at Traba, and bring the technical depth and customer immersion this product needs at this stage.