Traversal

AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Traversal
Location
New York, NY
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
$150K – $300K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-06-17 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

llmsprompt engineeringagentic orchestrationai architectureproduction deploymentlast-mile deliveryengineering strategycustomer communicationdistributed systemsdata processingdebuggingproject delivery

From the posting

About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise—already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we’re channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we’re proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. …

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