Full-Time

AI Agent Engineer

Coding Agent

Sekai

Sekai

11-50 employees

Generative AI-powered platform for interactive storytelling

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Python
Distributed Systems
Software Testing
Machine Learning
TypeScript
LangGraph
Observability

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Requirements
  • Experience building agentic systems involving tool use, orchestration, retry and repair loops, and context management, using provider APIs or frameworks such as LangGraph, PydanticAI, Google ADK, Pi-mono, or Vercel AI SDK.
  • Experience with distributed or real-time systems.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with depth in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • A track record of shipping and operating production systems.
  • Experience owning difficult technical problems end to end and demonstrating the systems built and their outcomes.
  • Ability to translate user-experience goals into system-design decisions.
Responsibilities
  • Design and own the agent harness layer.
  • Build long-horizon agentic workflows with maximal autonomy.
  • Develop evaluation and quality loops, including evaluation harnesses, regression testing, and failure taxonomies.
  • Design model strategy covering routing, benchmarking, reliability, and cost and latency optimization.
  • Create debuggable agent systems with tracing, metrics, alerts, and observability.
  • Research novel approaches and ship them to production.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience taking a customer-facing product from zero to one.
  • Experience building a coding agent, developer tool, integrated development environment assistant, or code-generation pipeline.
  • Experience building evaluation frameworks involving automated scoring, regression suites, and release gating.
  • Experience designing model context protocol-style tool protocols or robust tool interfaces for large language model systems.
  • Experience training and/or fine-tuning large language models.

Sekai is a generative AI-powered social entertainment platform that lets users create, share, and experience interactive anime-style stories. Users design characters, generate AI-driven narratives, and roleplay as different personas, with features like voice cloning and image-to-avatar conversion built into a social sharing experience. The app uses a free-to-use model with minimal ads and may add premium enterprise services such as analytics later. Backed by firms like a16z, Mayfield, and A*, with founders who previously worked on TikTok, its goal is to grow a user-centric community around AI-assisted storytelling.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$20M

Headquarters

Sunnyvale, California

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Axios reported June 1, 2026: Sekai raised $20 million Series A.
  • Users created over 15 million mini-apps and exceed 200,000 daily generations.
  • Google Play updated July 15, 2026, showing 1,000,000-plus installs and hour-plus daily engagement.

What critics are saying

  • Google AI Studio, Bolt.new, and Lovable compress Sekai's builder differentiation inside months.
  • The app stores and platform policies control distribution, monetization, and ranking for Sekai.
  • If prompt-built mini-apps plateau after novelty, Sekai becomes another feature inside TikTok or Roblox.

What makes Sekai unique

  • Sekai turned anime fanfiction into prompt-built mini-apps, creating social software as content.
  • Lucky Zhang and Arthur Cheung bring Apple, TikTok, and ByteDance distribution instincts.
  • Sekai's remixable, one-minute experiences prioritize virality, not utility, unlike conventional app builders.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Remote Work Options

Company Equity

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Headcount

6 month growth

21%

1 year growth

-9%

2 year growth

-6%
Axios
Jun 1st, 2026
Sekai raises $20M to build AI-powered app creation platform

Sekai has raised $20 million in a Series A round to expand its platform for creating mini applications through text prompts, founder and CEO Lucky Zhang told Axios. Zhang, who previously sold startups to Apple and TikTok parent ByteDance, believes AI-generated software will become the next major consumer application category. The funding will support the growth of Sekai's platform, which enables users to build applications using natural language inputs.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 1st, 2026
Exclusive: Sekai raises $20M for AI app creation

Sekai has raised a $20 million Series A to grow a platform for creating mini apps through text prompts, founder and CEO Lucky Zhang exclusively tells Axios.

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