AI Engineer - Backend/Platform

As an AI Engineer – Backend/Platform at Traversal, you’ll work on the core foundations that make Traversal’s AI possible while ensuring Traversal’s platform, products, and applications are delivered with a high bar for quality, reliability, resilience, cost-effectiveness, and maintainability.

You will build and own the frameworks, shared libraries, application foundations, observability, and developer tooling that power Traversal’s systems and AI agents. This involves designing scalable distributed systems and abstractions, delivering core application framework components, implementing best practices for software architecture and software delivery while balancing velocity, research flexibility, and production reliability.

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, robust backend systems to support AI agents and observability tools.
• Design and implement high-performance APIs to enable seamless communication between backend systems and frontend interfaces.