Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent

What you'll do

• Design and own agent harnesses for planning, tool use, memory, orchestration, and long-running creative workflows.
• Build agent tooling, evaluation and observability systems, and production frontend experiences; improve reliability, latency, and cost.
• Set engineering direction and standards, mentor teammates, and partner with founders, product, and design.

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, memory, multi-step planning, sub-agent orchestration, and long-running workflows.
• Track record designing evaluation frameworks and observability for agentic systems.
• Strong system design and data modeling skills; experience authoring reusable Agent Skills, structured agent 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 or LLM evaluation and observability tooling.
• Hands-on experience with image or video generation models and creative asset pipelines; experience with guardrails, safety, and cost controls for autonomous systems; startup or 0-to-1 product ownership.

Pay

$500k+ total compensation including base salary, bonus, equity; $500K – $600K total pay

Tools

MCP, CLI, React, Next.js, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, LangGraph

AI focus

Build and lead production creative agents, including agent harnesses, orchestration across model vendors, memory, planning, evaluation, observability, and AI-assisted product experiences.