Founding Engineer - FlowGen Labs

Pear VC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful founding equity

Visa support/sponsorship available

Job summary

A pioneering tech startup in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Founding Engineer to own the development of a cutting-edge platform for enterprise systems. The ideal candidate will design secure connectors and runtime infrastructures while working directly with customers on high-leverage projects. This role offers total compensation between $240,000 to $400,000, which includes a base salary of $160,000 to $250,000 and meaningful equity. Join a dynamic team that values speed and impact, and enjoys minimal bureaucracy.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing secure connectors and runtimes for complex enterprise systems.
• Ability to productionize prompt pipelines and conduct light fine-tuning.
• Comfortable making decisions with 80 percent information.

Responsibilities

• Own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure.
• Work directly with customers on high-leverage projects.
• Help define our culture, engineering standards, and roadmap.

Skills

Experience orchestrating agentic workflows

Familiarity with LangGraph

Ownership mentality

Hands-on use of AI tools

Strong communication skills

Job description

About Us

We are a well-funded SF Bay Area startup backed by tier-1 investors. We’re a small, cracked team in stealth, building an agentic platform for the hardest, least glamorous, but most valuable, software problems inside the Global 2000. Think decades-old business logic, mission‑critical systems, and colossal codebases where every percent of reliability matters. Our product blends program analysis, developer tooling, and code generation to turn multi‑year enterprise transformations into something teams can do in a fraction of the time, with verification, auditability, and real‑world guarantees. Join a talent‑dense founding team with meaningful equity and real growth upside at the intersection of ERP and artificial intelligence.

Role Summary

As our Founding Engineer, you will own a zero‑to‑one product and its infrastructure. 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.

• 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.

Why Join

• Direct product and company impact with minimal bureaucracy.

• High bar for craft, velocity, and pragmatic shipping.

Logistics

• Total compensation: $240,000 to $400,000

• Base salary: $160,000 to $250,000 plus meaningful founding equity

• Location: In person, San Francisco Bay Area

• Visa Support/Sponsorship available