Software Engineer, Agent

Embedding VC - San Francisco, CA

Hiring: Software Engineer, Agent Company: OpenArt (Embedding VC) Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 17:59:02 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: LLM Agents, Agent Harness, Tool Use, Context Management, Multi-Step Planning, Sub-Agent Orchestration, MCP Servers, CLI Tooling, Agent Skills, Evaluation Frameworks, Observability, React, Next.js, Full-Stack Engineering, AI-Native Product Experience: - 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 management, multi-step planning, and evaluation. Required Skills: - Build and extend the agent harness powering conversational and autonomous creative workflows: tool use, context/memory management, multi-step planning, and sub-agent orchestration. - Build and maintain MCP servers and CLI-based agent tooling connecting agents to internal services, external model vendors, and creative asset pipelines. - Author reusable Agent Skills and structured workflows for complex, multi-step creative tasks — scene planning, storyboarding, asset generation, revision loops. - Contribute to evaluation frameworks and observability to catch regressions before users do. - Ship polished, production frontend experiences (React/Next.js) for agent-driven products, end to end. - Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, correctness, and scalability. - Track the fast-moving agent ecosystem (MCP, Agent Skills, orchestration frameworks) and bring the best of it into the stack. Qualifications: - Product-and-systems mindset — this is not a research role. - Ability to partner closely with product, design, and GTM to translate user needs into technical solutions. - Strong communication skills to clearly articulate technical trade-offs. - High ownership, low process — values judgment, clarity, and speed over bureaucracy. - Comfort working in a small team with massive surface area, owning real systems end to end. Compensation: Not specified in the job posting. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!