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OpenArt AI
San Carlos, California, USA
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent
π¨ About OpenArt
OpenArt is an AI storytelling and visual creation platform used by millions of creators worldwide. We're building the next generation of creative tools powered by cutting-edge AI β enabling anyone to create videos, visuals, characters, and stories with unprecedented speed and imagination.
We believe the future of creativity is AI-native, and we're shaping that future.
π Why Join OpenArt
Ground floor of a new category
β help define what "agent" means for creative work, the way Director redefined what "directing" means for video. You'll set the architecture everything else is built on.
Own the whole agent layer
β not a service, not a slice. Harness, orchestration, memory, evals, tooling: the entire system is yours to design and lead.
Real scale, real stakes
β your agents run for millions of creators, and every improvement in reliability, latency, or quality shows up in the product within days.
Founder-led engineering culture
β both founders are technical and deeply involved in product and architecture.
AI-native product
β you'll decide how frontier models get orchestrated, constrained, and exposed as experiences that feel effortless rather than technical.
High ownership, low process
β we value judgment, clarity, and speed over bureaucracy.
π― About the Role
We're hiring a senior or staff engineer to lead the agentic architecture behind OpenArt's next generation of creative products, starting with Director β which lets anyone "vibe direct" a multi-minute cinematic video by chatting with AI. You'll own the agent infrastructure that pushes experiences like this further: longer-horizon planning, tool use across multiple model vendors, memory across sessions, sub-agent orchestration, and the harness that keeps all of it reliable in production.
This isn't a research role β it's a product-and-systems leadership role. You'll define the architecture of the agent harness (tool use, context engineering, multi-step planning, orchestration, evaluation), set the engineering standards the team builds against, and stay hands-on: building the MCP servers and CLI tooling around it, and shipping the frontend experiences on top of it.
You'll work directly with the founders and design to turn "what should this agent be able to do" into a system that actually does it β reliably, at scale β and you'll be the technical voice that decides how.
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Compensation
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Work Setup
Bay Area preferred (hybrid available)
Visa sponsorship available
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If you want to lead the architecture that turns frontier models into creative agents millions of people use β and own it from day one β we'd love to talk.
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