Senior Engineering Manager: AI Platform Lead

Flow Engineering

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 260,000 - 310,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Flow Engineering seeks a senior engineering manager to lead the core platform team. You will own delivery, stay hands-on with coding, and report to the head of engineering.

You'll collaborate with product, design, and forward deployed engineers to ship reliable, enterprise-grade software for hardware teams using AI agents and LLM-powered features. This is a hands-on leadership role at a fast-growing, customer-obsessed startup.

Qualifications

8+ years developing production software, including scalable cloud services.
2+ years managing engineers at an early-stage company or with limited process scaffolding.
Track record shipping enterprise-grade software customers rely on.
Still hands on with coding
Direct communicator able to give difficult feedback
Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment with ongoing experiments and iteration.

Responsibilities

Manage and grow a team of engineers, owning onboarding, feedback, and career development.
Own product execution end to end, from scoping with customers through ship, measure, and iterate.
Stay technical: review code, make architecture calls, and contribute hands-on when needed.
Help establish engineering best practices.
Collaborate with customers; users are systems and requirements engineers in hardware companies.
Partner with recruiting to build the team.
Help set direction on AI features and agentic workflows.

Skills

Software development

Engineering management

Hands-on coding

Communication

Job description

About Flow

Flow Engineering is an AI-native requirements platform for modern engineering organizations, enabling hardware teams to collaborate with AI agents to design, validate, and evolve complex systems with speed and rigor.

About The Role

Flow is seeking a senior engineering manager to lead a team building the core of our platform. This is our first dedicated engineering management hire, and you will own delivery for a team of engineers while staying hands on with coding.

You will report to our head of engineering and work closely with product, design, and our forward deployed engineers.

What You'll Do

Manage and grow a team of engineers, owning onboarding, feedback, and career development.
Own product execution end to end, from scoping with customers through ship, measure, and iterate.
Stay technical. Review code, make architecture calls, and pick up meaningful work when a project needs it.
Help establish engineering best practices
Work directly with customers. Our users are systems and requirements engineers at hardware companies with a high bar
Partner with recruiting to build the team
Help set direction on how AI shows up in the product, working with engineers building agentic workflows and LLM-powered features.

About You

8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.
2+ years managing engineers, ideally at an early-stage company or somewhere with little existing process scaffolding.
Track record shipping software that enterprise customers depend on, with a clear understanding of what that changes about how you build.
Still hands on with coding
Direct communicator who is able to give difficult feedback
Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm.

Nice to have

Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, or another regulated hardware domain.
Experience with requirements, ALM, PLM, or systems engineering tooling.
Experience managing teams building LLM-powered or agentic features in production.

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