Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent
OpenArt AI2 months ago
San Carlos, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$500k - $600k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the agent harness for conversational and autonomous creative workflows, including tool use, memory, planning, and sub-agent orchestration.
- Design reliable long-running agent workflows for scene planning, storyboarding, asset generation, and revision across multiple model vendors.
- Build MCP servers and CLI-based tooling connecting agents to internal services, model vendors, and creative asset pipelines.
- Author reusable Agent Skills and structured workflows that other engineers can extend.
- Build evaluation, regression testing, tracing, and observability systems for agent quality and reliability.
- Improve reliability, latency, and cost per successful agent run.
- Ship production frontend experiences for agent-driven products using React and Next.js.
- Set engineering standards, lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and define the direction of 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, including 2+ years building LLM-powered agents in production.
- Deep hands-on experience with 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 architectural direction for a system or team.
- Strong experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- Strong product sense and communication skills for explaining agent behavior and technical trade-offs.
- Preferred experience building MCP servers and CLI tooling, using agent orchestration frameworks such as Claude Agent SDK or LangGraph, and working with LLM evaluation or observability tools.
- Preferred hands-on experience with image/video generation models, creative asset pipelines, guardrails, safety, cost controls, startup environments, or 0-to-1 product ownership.
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship is available.
- Bay Area preferred, with hybrid work available.
- Meaningful equity ownership and a high-autonomy, high-growth environment.
- Compensation includes base salary, bonus, and equity; the posting states $500k+ total compensation.
Tech Stack
Next.jsReact
Categories
About OpenArt AI
OpenArt AI builds a generative-creative platform that lets individuals and teams produce images, videos, and visual stories using bundled AI models and workflows. The company sells self-serve subscriptions and enterprise plans with multi-seat collaboration for advertisers, filmmakers, creative studios, and production companies. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.