Sr. Software Engineer, AI
New York, United States · Full-time
- Posted 1mo ago
- From Navan’s careers page
- Location
- New York, United States
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Department
- Engineering
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About the role
What You’ll Do:
- **Build AI-Powered Product Experiences: **Design and develop agentic workflows that help users view, understand, connect, and manage their loyalty programs through chat, wallet surfaces, and personalized recommendations.
- **Develop Production AI Systems: **Build reliable LLM-powered flows with structured outputs, tool calling, guardrails, human confirmation, evals, and monitoring for real customer-facing use cases.
- **Own Agent and Workflow Quality: **Create and maintain scenario tests, adversarial evals, prompt/tool contracts, and quality metrics that ensure agents behave safely around loyalty data, PII, financial guidance, and unsupported requests.
- **Integrate Across the Stack: **Work across frontend, backend, and AI orchestration layers, including wallet APIs, streaming chat experiences, UI components, data services, and ML/LLM workflows.
- **Turn Data Into Personalization: **Help transform loyalty balances, tier progress, membership data, connected email signals, and trip context into useful recommendations and next-best actions.
- **Collaborate Cross-Functionally: **Partner closely with product, design, backend, data, and platform teams to ship polished, measurable customer experiences.
- **Raise the Engineering Bar: **Champion maintainable code, thoughtful abstractions, strong tests, observability, documentation, and operational ownership.
What We’re Looking For:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience building production systems, with meaningful hands-on experience in AI, LLM, agent, workflow, or ML-powered products.
- Experience building agentic systems, tool-calling workflows, RAG-like systems, structured LLM outputs, eval pipelines, or AI assistants in production.
- Strong engineering fundamentals in TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, or similar backend/product engineering stacks.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, async workflows, caching, observability, and production debugging.
- Comfort working with AI safety patterns such as guardrails, HITL confirmation, deterministic tool boundaries, hallucination prevention, and PII-sensitive workflows.
- Product mindset and ability to translate ambiguous user needs into robust, user-facing experiences.
- Strong ownership mentality, with the ability to ship, measure, iterate, and support features after release.
- Experience with travel, loyalty programs, personalization, fintech, or consumer data products is a strong plus.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
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About Navan
Corporate travel and expense managementNavan provides corporate travel, expense management and payment tools for businesses and travelers.
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