OpenArt AI
Creative Technologist (AI Design Engineer)
$180K–$250K
San Carlos, California, USA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
About the job
Turns professional creative-production bottlenecks into AI-agent workflows and validated prototypes, then partners with product and engineering to ship them.
What you'll do
- Research production workflows and identify bottlenecks where an agent could help; define professional standards for completed work.
- Prototype and validate creative workflows and interfaces using AI tools, Figma, lightweight code, and APIs.
- Work with product, model, and engineering teams to turn validated prototypes into shipped features and reusable patterns.
What they ask for
- Hands-on fluency in professional creative pipelines, from brief to delivery, with the ability to identify bottlenecks.
- Proficiency with AI coding tools, model APIs, agent frameworks, and lightweight code to build working prototypes independently.
- Ability to deliver end to end, from problem definition and workflow research through design to a usable professional-quality prototype.
- Portfolio or GitHub demonstrating tools, prototypes, products, or experiments built.
Nice to have
- Proficiency with professional editing, compositing, motion, or 3D tools.
- Experience building agents, such as tool-calling, MCP, skills, or automations.
Pay
$180K – $250K (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
AI coding tools, model APIs, agent frameworks, Figma, MCP
AI focus
Designs and prototypes agent-run creative workflows, determining what the agent handles and where professionals need to review or adjust results.
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