AI-Powered Creative Agent Engineer

Vibehackers; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship available

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenArt is seeking a Software Engineer to build the agent layer for next-generation creative products, focusing on the agent harness, MCP servers, CLI tooling, and frontend experiences to enable scalable agent-driven storytelling and visual creation for millions of users.

The role emphasizes production-quality systems, observability, and end-to-end delivery with collaboration across product and design teams. Bay Area preferred, hybrid options, visa sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping production software.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents or applications used by real users.
• 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.
• Strong AI-assisted coding practice with tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
• Product sense for trustworthy, delightful agent experiences and clear communication of trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the agent harness powering conversational and autonomous creative workflows.
• Build and maintain MCP servers and CLI tooling connecting agents to services and external models.
• Author reusable Agent Skills and structured workflows for complex tasks (scene planning, storyboarding, asset generation).
• Contribute to evaluation frameworks and observability to detect regressions and measure agent performance.
• Ship polished frontend experiences (React/Next.js) for agent-driven products end to end.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, correctness, and scalability and communicate them clearly.
• Collaborate with product, design, and GTM to translate user needs into technical solutions.
• Track agent ecosystem components and integrate advances into the stack.

Skills

Full-stack Development

Agent Architecture

Data Modeling

System Design

Frontend Development

CLI Tooling

Observability

Evaluation & Metrics

Product Sense

Communication

Ownership

Collaboration

AI-assisted Coding

Multi-step Planning

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

MCP servers

CLI tooling

React/Next.js

Job description

OpenArt is seeking a Software Engineer to build the agent layer for next-generation creative products, focusing on the agent harness, MCP servers, CLI tooling, and frontend experiences to enable scalable agent-driven storytelling and visual creation for millions of users.

The role emphasizes production-quality systems, observability, and end-to-end delivery with collaboration across product and design teams. Bay Area preferred, hybrid options, visa sponsorship available.