Embedding VC
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent
$500K
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience, including 2+ years building LLM-powered agents in production.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available.
About the job
Lead the architecture and implementation of production AI agents for OpenArt’s creative products, including agent infrastructure, evaluation, tooling, and user-facing experiences.
What you'll do
- Own the agent harness architecture for tool use, memory, planning, orchestration, and long-running workflows.
- Build MCP servers, CLI tooling, reusable agent workflows, and evaluation and observability systems.
- Ship agent-driven frontend experiences and set technical direction, standards, and engineering practices.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping and owning production systems at scale, including 2+ years 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.
- Experience creating reusable Agent Skills, structured workflows, or equivalent abstractions; demonstrated technical leadership.
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 or observability tooling.
Pay
$500k+ total compensation including base salary, bonus, equity (total compensation)
Tools
MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, React, Next.js, Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph
AI focus
Lead agentic architecture for creative products, including planning, tool use, memory, orchestration, evaluation, and production reliability.
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