Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent
Embedding VC2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture of the agent harness for conversational and autonomous creative workflows.
- Design long-running agent planning and execution across multiple model vendors, including failure recovery.
- Build MCP servers and CLI-based tooling connecting agents to internal services, external model vendors, and creative asset pipelines.
- Author reusable Agent Skills and structured workflows for other engineers to build upon.
- Build evaluation, regression, tracing, and observability systems for agent quality and reliability.
- Drive reliability, latency, and cost per successful run as core production metrics.
- Ship production frontend experiences with React and Next.js for agent-driven products.
- Set technical standards through architecture reviews, mentorship, and direction for agent engineering.
- Partner with founders, product, design, and GTM to translate user needs into technical direction.
Requirements
- 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping and owning production systems at scale.
- 2+ years of experience building LLM-powered agents in production.
- Hands-on experience with agent architecture, including tool use, context and memory management, multi-step planning, sub-agent orchestration, and long-running workflows.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks and observability for agentic systems.
- Strong system design and data modeling skills, including state, schemas, and APIs.
- Experience authoring reusable Agent Skills, structured agent workflows, or equivalent abstractions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and experience setting direction for a system or team.
- Strong AI-assisted coding practice using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- Strong product sense and communication skills.
- Preferred experience with MCP servers, CLI tooling, agent orchestration frameworks, and LLM evaluation or observability tooling.
- Preferred experience with image or video generation models, creative asset pipelines, guardrails, safety, cost controls, startups, or taking a product surface from 0 to 1.
Benefits
- $500k+ total compensation including base salary, bonus, and equity.
- Meaningful equity ownership in the product being built.
- High-autonomy, high-growth environment with direct involvement from technical founders.
- Bay Area preferred with hybrid work available.
- Visa sponsorship available.
Tech Stack
Next.jsReact
Categories
About Embedding VC
Embedding VC is an early-stage venture fund that backs generative AI startups, led by current and former builders and operators. The partnership invests capital and hands-on expertise to help AI founders scale, with a focus on progress toward AGI. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it operates as a private partnership concentrating on AI-native applications and infrastructure.