Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack – San Francisco
Flow Engineering6 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship AI-powered features including assisted requirement drafting, consistency checks, impact analysis, and intelligent suggestions.
- Build agentic workflows that help systems and domain engineers explore designs, simulate changes, and validate requirements.
- Evaluate and integrate language models and related tooling while optimizing reliability, latency, cost, and production debuggability.
- Build and maintain data pipelines, evaluation harnesses, prompt and model management, observability, and safety guardrails.
- Deliver complete AI features across backend integrations, APIs, and simple UI hooks.
- Partner with product teams and customers to identify valuable workflows, run experiments, and iterate based on usage.
Requirements
- 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.
- Hands-on experience with modern LLM providers and tooling such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, vector stores, and RAG patterns.
- Familiarity with prompt design, retrieval-augmented systems, evaluation methods, and safety or guardrail approaches.
- Ability to evaluate tradeoffs among models, architectures, and deployment patterns and make pragmatic decisions.
- Comfort working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment with frequent experimentation and iteration.
Benefits
- 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.
Tech Stack
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About Flow Engineering
Flow Engineering builds a SaaS platform for hardware and systems engineering teams to manage requirements, verification/validation, and collaboration across the V‑Model. It serves aerospace, automotive, defense, and robotics companies, with reported users including Rivian, Joby, Astranis, and Radiant. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company is backed by Sequoia Capital and other notable investors.