# AI Researcher 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: $160K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-05-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/f6e9d489-d0ec-4d7d-adf3-5ba940f53312
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/traversal-ai-researcher/

## About the role

As an AI Researcher at Traversal, you'll work on improving the accuracy and speed of our agents — systems that autonomously diagnose and resolve production incidents for some of the world’s largest enterprises. This is a hands-on, production-oriented research role. You will design experiments, run them on real data, and ship improvements. Not flag them — ship them.

## What they're looking for

- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field, demonstrated depth in LLMs, agents, or applied machine learning
- Deep applied AI expertise, including strong working knowledge of LLMs, transformers, reinforcement learning, or neural networks in agentic systems
- Strong judgment in model evaluation and experimental iteration to improve product accuracy and behavior
- Strong software engineering depth, with the ability to work effectively in a complex production codebase and ship production-quality code
- Some experience shipping AI or ML systems to production
- Ability to run rigorous experiments, interpret results, and quickly translate learnings into product improvements

Tags: Research