Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent

Position Summary

Lead the architecture and delivery of agent systems that support conversational and autonomous creative workflows, from planning and tool use through reliable production experiences.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for agent workflows, including tools, context and memory, multi-step planning, and sub-agent orchestration.
• Design agents that execute long-running tasks with clear failure handling and recovery paths.
• Build agent servers and command-line tools that connect systems, model providers, and creative asset pipelines.
• Create reusable agent workflows and patterns that other engineers can extend.
• Build evaluation and observability systems, including automated evaluations, regression suites, tracing, and quality checks.
• Improve reliability, latency, and cost per successful run.
• Deliver production frontend experiences for agent-powered products.
• Set engineering standards, review architecture, and mentor teammates.
• Partner with product and design teams to translate user needs into technical direction.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience delivering production systems, including 2+ years building production LLM-powered agents.
• Hands-on experience with agent architecture, tool use, memory, planning, orchestration, and long-running workflows.
• Experience designing evaluations and observability for agent systems.
• Strong system design, data modeling, and API skills.
• Experience creating reusable agent workflows or similar engineering abstractions.
• Technical leadership experience and strong product judgment.
• Experience with agent servers, CLI tooling, orchestration frameworks, or image and video generation is a plus.

Location: Bay Area, CA (hybrid)
Employment type: Full-time

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