# AI Research Engineer at Traversal

- Company: Traversal
- What the company does: Traversal is the AI SRE that triages alerts, finds root cause, and resolves incidents at petabyte scale. Trusted by American Express, PepsiCo, and DigitalOcean. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.traversal.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/7c37b968-0dc6-4ac3-89e3-1261883a0a96
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/traversal-ai-research-engineer/

## About the role

As an AI Research Engineer at Traversal, you'll build the systems our research team runs on. Our agents autonomously diagnose and resolve production incidents for some of the world's largest enterprises, and improving them is an experimental problem: form a hypothesis about agent behavior, test it against real incident data, and ship what works. The bottleneck is rarely ideas. It's the infrastructure to run the experiment, trust the result, and scale the prototype.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and experience building scaled systems
- Hands-on experimentation experience — running experiments, evaluating results, and iterating on them. Side projects and personal work count
- Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments, with limited resources, shifting priorities, and minimal structure
- Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI
- Experience deploying applications on AWS, working with ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools to ensure the system is running smoothly and efficiently

Tags: Research