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We help teams turn information scattered across emails, documents and existing systems into reliable workflows for trade execution and operations. Our customers work with the energy, metals and agricultural products that move through the global economy.\nWe recently raised our Series A and are growing our engineering team. You will work closely with the founders and customers, own meaningful parts of the product, and see the results of your work in real operations.\nThe role\nWe are looking for a senior engineer who can turn the capabilities of modern models into agents that do useful work with increasing autonomy. You will build the harnesses around those models: the tools, context, execution loops, state and feedback that let an agent carry a task through to completion.\nThe goal is to help CommodityAI scale what our product and team can accomplish. 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Turn production failures into reproducible cases that improve the next iteration.\n\nInspect traces and debug the whole system: prompts, context, tool interfaces, orchestration and model behavior.\n\nIncrease useful autonomy over time, with clear permissions, checkpoints and human intervention where the workflow requires them.\n\nExperiment with new models and approaches, measuring whether they improve capability, reliability, latency and cost in our actual workflows.\n\nCreate reusable tools and harness components so each new feature is easier to build and operate, and the team can support more customers without repeating manual work.\n\nWhat we are looking for\nStrong software engineering skills and experience building working agent systems that take actions and complete tasks.\n\nA practical understanding of how harness design, context management and tool interfaces affect model performance.\n\nExperience creating evals, reading execution traces and systematically improving unreliable behavior.\n\nThe ability to move quickly from an idea to a working feature, then make deliberate decisions about what to harden for production.\n\nGood judgment about autonomy: where an agent can act independently, how to bound its actions and when to involve a person.\n\nProduct curiosity and ownership. 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