{"id":14854,"date":"2026-09-09T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/?post_type=job_listing&#038;p=14854"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:13:59","slug":"california-396-software-engineer-agent","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/vaga\/california-396-software-engineer-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Engineer, Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Descripci\u00f3n completa del puesto<br \/>About OpenArt<\/p>\n<p>OpenArt is an AI storytelling and visual creation platform used by millions of creators worldwide. We&#8217;re building the next generation of creative tools powered by cutting-edge AI \u2014 enabling anyone to create videos, visuals, characters, and stories with unprecedented speed and imagination.<\/p>\n<p>We believe the future of creativity is AI-native, and we&#8217;re shaping that future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why Join OpenArt<\/p>\n<p>Ground floor of a new category \u2014 help define what &#8220;agent&#8221; means for creative work, the way Director redefined what &#8220;directing&#8221; means for video.<br \/>Small team, massive surface area \u2014 engineers own real systems end to end, not slices.<br \/>Real scale, real stakes \u2014 your agents run for millions of creators, and what you ship shows up in the product within days.<br \/>Founder-led engineering culture \u2014 both founders are technical and deeply involved in product and architecture.<br \/>AI-native product \u2014 you&#8217;ll help decide how frontier models get orchestrated and exposed as experiences that feel effortless rather than technical.<br \/>High ownership, low process \u2014 we value judgment, clarity, and speed over bureaucracy.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About the Role<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hiring engineers to build the agent layer behind OpenArt&#8217;s next generation of creative products, starting with Director \u2014 which lets anyone &#8220;vibe direct&#8221; a multi-minute cinematic video by chatting with AI. You&#8217;ll be building the agent infrastructure that pushes experiences like this further: longer-horizon planning, tool use across multiple model vendors, memory across sessions, and the harness that keeps all of it reliable in production.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a research role \u2014 it&#8217;s a product-and-systems role. You&#8217;ll build on and extend the agent harness (tool use, context management, multi-step planning, evaluation), develop the MCP servers and CLI tooling around it, and ship the frontend experiences that make all of it feel effortless rather than technical. You&#8217;ll work closely with the founders, the agent team, and design to turn &#8220;what should this agent be able to do&#8221; into a system that actually does it \u2014 reliably, at scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What You&#8217;ll Do<\/p>\n<p>Build and extend the agent harness that powers OpenArt&#8217;s conversational and autonomous creative workflows: tool use, context\/memory management, multi-step planning, and sub-agent orchestration.<br \/>Build and maintain MCP servers and CLI-based agent tooling that connect our agents to internal services, external model vendors, and creative asset pipelines.<br \/>Author reusable Agent Skills and structured workflows that let agents reliably handle complex, multi-step creative tasks \u2014 scene planning, storyboarding, asset generation, revision loops.<br \/>Contribute to evaluation frameworks and observability so the team knows when an agent is working well, and can catch regressions before users do.<br \/>Ship polished, production frontend experiences (React\/Next.js) for agent-driven products, end to end.<br \/>Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, correctness, and scalability \u2014 and communicate them clearly.<br \/>Partner closely with product, design, and GTM to translate user needs into technical solutions.<br \/>Track the fast-moving agent ecosystem (MCP, Agent Skills, orchestration frameworks) and bring the best of it into OpenArt&#8217;s stack.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What We&#8217;re Looking For<\/p>\n<p>Core Requirements<\/p>\n<p>2+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping production software.<br \/>Hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents or applications that have reached real users \u2014 not just prototypes or demos.<br \/>Working familiarity with agent harness concepts: tool use, context\/memory management, multi-step planning, or sub-agent orchestration.<br \/>Solid data modeling and schema design skills for real product use cases.<br \/>A strong AI-assisted coding practice \u2014 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.<br \/>Product sense \u2014 you think about what makes an agent experience feel trustworthy and delightful, not just functional.<br \/>Clear communication \u2014 you can explain agent behavior and technical trade-offs to teammates who aren&#8217;t engineers.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nice to Have<\/p>\n<p>Experience authoring reusable Agent Skills or structured agent workflows.<br \/>Practical experience building MCP servers or CLI tooling for agents.<br \/>Exposure to agent orchestration frameworks (Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, or similar) or LLM evaluation \/ observability tooling.<br \/>Hands-on experience with image \/ video generation models.<br \/>Startup experience, or having built something 0 to 1 (side projects count).<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compensation<\/p>\n<p>$300k+ total compensation including base salary, bonus, equity.<br \/>Equity \u2014 meaningful ownership in what you build.<br \/>High autonomy, high growth environment.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Work Setup<\/p>\n<p>Bay Area preferred (hybrid available).<br \/>Visa sponsorship available.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What Success Looks Like in 3\u20136 Months<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve shipped a production agent workflow inside OpenArt&#8217;s ecosystem, and real users are running it.<br \/>You&#8217;ve meaningfully improved a piece of the harness, a set of Agent Skills, or the eval loop \u2014 and can point to the metric that moved.<br \/>You own at least one part of the agent stack end to end and are the go-to person for it.<br \/>You&#8217;ve formed a tight feedback loop with design, founders, and real users.<br \/>You&#8217;re proposing improvements and catching problems early, not just executing on specs.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you want to build the agents that turn frontier models into creative tools millions of people use \u2014 and grow fast while doing it \u2014 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