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Traversal · 3 months ago

AI Researcher

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $300K/yr

Traversal is an AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) trusted by major companies to troubleshoot and prevent complex production incidents. As an AI Researcher, you will train intelligent AI agents for root cause analysis in high-pressure environments, leading research in areas such as LLM fine-tuning and deep reinforcement learning.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareSoftware Engineering

Responsibilities

LLM & Agent Research: Prototype and evaluate novel prompting strategies, reasoning workflows, and tool-use policies for agents handling large-scale observability data and complex troubleshooting workflows

Training & Alignment: Explore and apply fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and reward modeling techniques to align AI behavior with real-world SRE workflows and debugging practices

Synthetic Data & Experimentation: Design pipelines to generate synthetic incidents and observability signals, enabling scalable training and testing in data-scarce scenarios

Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with AI engineers, infrastructure teams, and product leads to bring research into production and close the loop between experimentation and impact

Stay on the Frontier: Track the latest developments in LLMs, agentic architectures, and AI alignment—translating insights into actionable improvements

Qualification

Deep LearningReinforcement LearningLLM Fine-TuningExperiment DesignObservabilitySynthetic Data GenerationOpen-source ContributionsTerraformKubernetesCollaborationCommunication