Software Engineer, Agent
OpenArt AI2 months ago
San Carlos, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$300k - $400k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and extend the agent harness for conversational and autonomous creative workflows, including tool use, context and memory management, multi-step planning, and sub-agent orchestration.
- Build and maintain MCP servers and CLI tooling connecting agents to internal services, external model vendors, and creative asset pipelines.
- Author reusable Agent Skills and structured workflows for scene planning, storyboarding, asset generation, and revision loops.
- Contribute to agent evaluation frameworks and observability systems to measure performance and catch regressions.
- Ship production frontend experiences with React and Next.js for agent-driven products.
- Partner with product, design, founders, and GTM to translate user needs into reliable technical solutions.
- Track the agent ecosystem and make pragmatic trade-offs among speed, correctness, and scalability.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of full-stack engineering experience shipping production software.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents or applications that reached real users.
- Working familiarity with tool use, context and memory management, multi-step planning, or sub-agent orchestration.
- Strong data modeling and schema design skills for real product use cases.
- Regular use of AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, with informed opinions about their effectiveness.
- Product sense focused on trustworthy and delightful agent experiences.
- Clear communication of agent behavior and technical trade-offs to non-engineering teammates.
- Preferred: experience authoring reusable Agent Skills or structured agent workflows.
- Preferred: practical experience building MCP servers or CLI tooling for agents.
- Preferred: exposure to Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, or similar orchestration frameworks, or LLM evaluation and observability tooling.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with image or video generation models.
- Preferred: startup or zero-to-one building experience, including side projects.
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship is available.
- Bay Area preferred; hybrid work is available.
- High-autonomy, high-growth environment with meaningful equity ownership.
- Work closely with technical founders and own real systems end to end.
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.