Senior Engineering Manager - Lead AI-Driven Platform & Teams

Flow Engineering; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Engineering is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the core platform team. You will own delivery, stay hands-on with coding, and partner with product, design, and forward deployed engineers. This is Flow's first dedicated engineering management hire, reporting to the head of engineering.

You'll shape technical direction, establish best practices, and work closely with customers to understand requirements, while guiding a team through onboarding and career development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing production software.
• 2+ years managing engineers, ideally at an early-stage company.
• Track record shipping software that enterprise customers depend on.
• Still hands on with coding.
• Direct communicator who can give difficult feedback.
• Comfortable in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment with experimentation.

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.
• Review code, make architecture calls, and pick up meaningful work when needed.
• Help establish engineering best practices across the team.
• Work directly with customers (systems and requirements engineers in hardware) to capture and validate needs.
• Partner with recruiting to build the team and set hiring direction.
• Define how AI features and agentic workflows appear in the product, collaborating with engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Code review

Architectural decisions

Cloud services

Customer collaboration

Hands-on coding

Tools

ALM tooling

PLM tooling

LLM-powered features

Job description

Flow Engineering is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the core platform team. You will own delivery, stay hands-on with coding, and partner with product, design, and forward deployed engineers. This is Flow's first dedicated engineering management hire, reporting to the head of engineering.

You'll shape technical direction, establish best practices, and work closely with customers to understand requirements, while guiding a team through onboarding and career development.