Senior Software Engineer, Video Agent at OpusClip

**Who this is for** An ambitious, "hacker-spirit" senior software engineer looking to build next-generation AI video agent technology in a fast-paced, high-grow

Work type: onsite

Location: Palo Alto

Salary: $190,000 – $270,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** An ambitious, "hacker-spirit" senior software engineer looking to build next-generation AI video agent technology in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment. **Key highlights** You will work directly with product and marketing teams to prototype and ship "impossible" AI features, leveraging a diverse tech stack to solve complex agent reliability problems. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 5-8 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications. - Possess an entrepreneurial mindset with a "ship fast, quality follows" philosophy. - Are experienced with building AI agents involving dynamic planning, memory, and tool usage. - Can comfortably navigate both front-end (React) and server-side (NodeJS/Django) development.

Job Description

🎨[OpusClip](https://www.opus.pro)is the world's No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media.

We envision a world where everyone can authentically share their story through video, with no expertise needed. Within just 18 months of our launch, over 10 million creators and businesses have used OpusClip to enhance their social presence.

We have raised $50 million in total funding and are fortunate to have some of the most supportive investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, DCM Ventures, Millennium New Horizons, Fellows Fund, AI Grant, Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Samsung Next, GTMfund, Alumni Ventures, and many more.

Check out our latest coverage by [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/opusclip-softbank-vision-fund-2-funding-valuation-2025-3) featuring our product and funding milestones, and our recognition as one of [The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups in 2024. ](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yzopus_opusclip-has-been-recognized-by-the-information-activity-7255358200395243520-zhOz/?utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_source=share)

Headquartered in Palo Alto, we are a team of 100 passionate and experienced AI enthusiasts and video experts, driven by our core values:

• Be a Champion Team

• Prioritize Ruthlessly

• Ship fast, Quality Follows

• Obsess over customers

## 📝 Background and Responsibilities:

• We are building a new team in US to hack and build our next generation smart AI video maker that can ingest user's content and compose quality videos for the social media. This product will be considered impossible before but you make people change their mind.

• You will be working closely with the product, marketing to rush prototype, beta and the production version of this impossible product using agent technology.

## 📝 Qualifications:

Keywords: ambitious, scrappy, generalist, growth mindset, taste

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field. A total of 5-8 years of experience in software engineering.

• A strong entrepreneurial or hacker spirit or experience in a rapidly growing startup. Believes that speed is key and quality to follow later. You dare to set ambitious goals and deadlines. And you work hard and smart for it. You enjoy the challenge and treat it like a sport.

• You resonate with the combat spirit to win, if you've watched the F1 Movie.

• Fast learner and self-starter as a full-stack engineer. A broad range of tech skills are preferred. Must have both front-end (such as React) and server-side skills (NodeJS, Django etc).

• Strong product and business sense and can build product based on customers' needs. You love building a product from the ground up. You can solve agent reliability problems using creative methods.

• Good understanding of software engineering principles and best practices. Good judgement on when to hack and when to craft.

• Open to work with senior engineers across the Asia time zone, including periodic evening meetings, and excited to work on-site with our teammates in our office.

• You prefer working in a well defined scope where your work is assigned to you instead of you defining your work.

• You prefer focusing on coding and not worrying about product, design and customers.

• You don't want to de-value your precious coding skills and think vibe coding will never work.

• You don't know how to use Cursor or other AI coding tools.

• You cannot code without Cursor or other AI coding tools.

• You think scrappiness is all you need and production is the same as prototyping.

• Experience with building AI agents (with dynamic planning capability), including tool call, memory, evaluation systems.

• Previously built product as individual developer as your side projects.

• Palo Alto, CA

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