Founding AI Research Engineer (Zero-to-One)

FlowGen Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

FlowGen Labs is seeking a Founding Research Engineer to own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure in San Francisco. You will build the secure connector and runtime that understands complex enterprise systems, the tooling experience developers use every day, and the analysis and planning engine that transforms legacy code.

You will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects and help define our culture, our engineering bar, and our roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Design the agentic layer. Implement self-checking, reflection, and verification passes before results reach humans or downstream systems.
• Experience orchestrating agentic workflows and retrieval augmented generation. Familiarity with LangGraph is a plus.
• Stand up inference paths with low latency serving and token-level observability
• Productionize prompt pipelines, retrieval, and light fine-tuning, where it moves the needle
• Hands-on use of AI tools with clear ideas for applying AI to development, testing, data, and support.
• Ownership mentality, crisp communication, and comfortable making decisions with 80 percent information.
• Move fast without breaking things, not afraid to learn new stacks, bring a we will figure it out attitude.

Job description

FlowGen Labs is seeking a Founding Research Engineer to own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure in San Francisco. You will build the secure connector and runtime that understands complex enterprise systems, the tooling experience developers use every day, and the analysis and planning engine that transforms legacy code.

You will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects and help define our culture, our engineering bar, and our roadmap.