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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent

OpenArt

San Francisco, USA

Full-time

Senior · 7+ years experience

Hybrid

USD 500000-500000 yearly / year

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Core Requirements

- 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping and owning production systems at scale, including 2+ years building LLM-powered agents in production — not just prototypes or demos.
- Deep, hands-on experience with agent architecture: tool use, context/memory management, multi-step planning, sub-agent orchestration, and long-running workflows.
- Track record of designing evaluation frameworks and observability for agentic systems — you know how to measure whether an agent is working and how to keep it from regressing.
- Strong system design and data modeling skills — comfortable reasoning about state, schemas, and APIs for real product use cases.
- Experience authoring reusable Agent Skills, structured agent workflows, or equivalent abstractions that other engineers build on.
- Demonstrated technical leadership — you've set direction for a system or team, and people follow your architectural calls because they've been right before.
- A strong AI-assisted coding practice — you use tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor as a core part of how you build, and have real opinions about what makes them work well.
- High product sense — you think about what makes an agent experience feel trustworthy and delightful, not just functional.
- Strong communication skills — you can explain agent behavior and technical trade-offs clearly to founders, designers, and non-technical teammates.

Nice to Have

- Practical experience building MCP servers and CLI tooling for agents.

- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, or similar) and LLM evaluation / observability tooling.

- Hands-on experience with image / video generation models and creative asset pipelines.

- Experience with guardrails, safety, and cost controls for autonomous systems.

- Startup experience or ownership of a product surface from 0 to 1.

💰 Compensation

- $500k+ total compensation including base salary, bonus, equity.

- Equity — meaningful ownership in what you build.

- High autonomy, high growth environment.

🌍 Work Setup

- Bay Area preferred (hybrid available).

- Visa sponsorship available.

🎯 What Success Looks Like in 3–6 Months

- The agent harness has a clear, documented architecture that the team builds against — and it's yours.

- A production agent workflow you designed is shipped and running for real users inside OpenArt's ecosystem.

- An eval and observability loop exists, and regressions get caught before users see them.

- Reliability, latency, or cost per successful run has measurably improved on a workflow that matters.

- You've formed a tight feedback loop with design, founders, and real users.

- You're setting the direction for agent engineering — pushing ideas, not waiting for specs.

If you want to lead the architecture that turns frontier models into creative agents millions of people use — and own it from day one — we'd love to talk.