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Software Engineer, Agent

OpenArt AI · San Carlos, California, USA · Remote

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About OpenArt AI

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.

About the role

We're hiring engineers to build the agent layer 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 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 2+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping production software
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents or applications that have reached real users — not just prototypes or demos
  • Working familiarity with agent harness concepts: tool use, context/memory management, multi-step planning, or sub-agent orchestration
  • Solid data modeling and schema design skills for real product use cases
  • A strong AI-assisted coding practice — 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
  • Product sense — you think about what makes an agent experience feel trustworthy and delightful, not just functional
More about this role

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 — 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.

Ground floor of a new category — help define what "agent" means for creative work, the way Director redefined what "directing" means for video.

Small team, massive surface area — engineers own real systems end to end, not slices.

Real scale, real stakes — your agents run for millions of creators, and what you ship shows up in the product within days.

Founder-led engineering culture — both founders are technical and deeply involved in product and architecture.

AI-native product — you'll help decide how frontier models get orchestrated and exposed as experiences that feel effortless rather than technical.

High ownership, low process — we value judgment, clarity, and speed over bureaucracy.

We're hiring engineers to build the agent layer behind OpenArt's next generation of creative products, starting with Director —...

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