San Francisco, California, United States Employment USD 190,000 - 280,000 Yearly

Flow Engineering is hiring a Forward Deployed Software Engineer

About the Role

Flow Engineering is seeking AI-focused Forward Deployed Software Engineers to build AI-powered capabilities that help teams author, review, and manage requirements more effectively. This role sits at the intersection of AI, product, and full-stack engineering: you will take ideas from prototype all the way to stable, observable features in production.

What You'll Do

  • Partner with enterprises and cutting-edge startups to design and ship AI-powered features such as assisted requirement drafting, consistency checks, impact analysis, and intelligent suggestions.
  • Build agentic workflows that help agentic systems and domain engineers explore designs, simulate changes, and validate requirements.
  • Evaluate and integrate language models and related tooling, optimizing for reliability, latency, cost, and debuggability in production.
  • Build and maintain surrounding infrastructure: data pipelines, evaluation harnesses, prompt and model management, observability, and safety guardrails.
  • Work across the stack—from backend integrations and APIs to simple UI hooks—to deliver complete AI features.
  • Partner with product and customers to identify high-value workflows, run experiments, and iterate quickly based on usage.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.
  • Hands-on experience with modern LLM providers and tooling (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, vector stores, RAG patterns).
  • Comfort working directly with customers to understand their needs and solve real-world problems.
  • Excellent communication skills—clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Familiarity with prompt design, retrieval-augmented systems, evaluation methods, and safety guardrail approaches.
  • Ability to reason about tradeoffs between different models, architectures, and deployment patterns and make pragmatic decisions.
  • Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm.

Technical Stack

  • TypeScript/Node.js and Python for AI and backend services.
  • Modern LLM APIs and orchestration libraries for building agentic workflows.
  • Postgres and other managed cloud services for data and state.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible time off and support for experimentation, learning, and staying current with the AI ecosystem.

Flow Engineering is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonAILLM APIsAgentic WorkflowsPostgresCloud ServicesOpenAIAnthropicHugging FaceVector StoresRAGPrompt DesignSystem Design
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About company
Flow Engineering

Flow Engineering is building an AI-native requirements platform for modern engineering organizations. Flow’s vision is to support 'agentic systems engineers' and 'agentic domain engineers' working alongside AI agents to design and operate complex systems.

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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 14 days ago