Founding Engineer - FlowGen Labs

Spur

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 400,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Spur in the SF Bay Area is hiring a Founding Engineer to own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure. You will build the secure connector and runtime that understands complex enterprise systems, the developer tooling, and the analysis engine that transforms legacy code.

You will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects and help define our culture, engineering bar, and roadmap. Join a small, high-skill team with meaningful equity, direct product impact, minimal bureaucracy, and

Qualifications

  • Experience designing agentic workflows and verification passes.
  • Familiarity with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a plus, LangGraph preferred.
  • Strong inclination for shipping reliable AI-powered tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Design the agentic layer including self-checks, reflection and verification passes.
  • Architect inference paths with low-latency serving and token-level observability.
  • Productionize prompt pipelines, retrieval and light fine-tuning for impactful outcomes.
  • Hands-on use of AI tools with practical applications in development, testing and support.
  • Demonstrate ownership, crisp communication and comfortable decision-making with partial information.
  • Move fast while learning new stacks and maintaining system safety.

Skills

Agentic design
Retrieval augmented generation
Low latency
LangGraph
AI tooling

Tools

LangGraph
AI tooling

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
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