# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent at OpenArt AI

- Company: OpenArt AI
- What the company does: Create AI art, images, videos and music online for free. 100+ models from Google, OpenAI, Seedance & more. — all in one place. Trusted by 8M+ creators. Start in seconds. Backed by Basis Set Ventures.
- Company website: https://openart.ai
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Carlos, California, USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $500K to $600K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart/b5e04802-f810-4da8-867d-37edfdef0001?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openart-ai-senior-staff-software-engineer-agent/

## 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 — 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping and owning production systems at scale, including 2+ years building LLM-powered agents in production — not just prototypes or demos
- Deep, hands-on experience with agent architecture: tool use, context/memory management, multi-step planning, sub-agent orchestration, and long-running workflows
- Track record of designing evaluation frameworks and observability for agentic systems — you know how to measure whether an agent is working and how to keep it from regressing
- Strong system design and data modeling skills — comfortable reasoning about state, schemas, and APIs for real product use cases
- Experience authoring reusable Agent Skills, structured agent workflows, or equivalent abstractions that other engineers build on
- Demonstrated technical leadership — you've set direction for a system or team, and people follow your architectural calls because they've been right before

Tags: Engineering

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