Tech Lead Manager, AI Platform (Hands-On)

Flow Engineering; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Engineering is seeking a tech lead manager to head a new engineering team and own delivery while staying hands-on with coding. You will collaborate with product, design, and forward deployed engineers to build the core of our AI-native requirements platform for hardware teams.

You will manage engineers, drive end-to-end product execution, review architecture, and stay technically active. You’ll engage customers and help shape AI-driven features and workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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.
• 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.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Customer collaboration

Architectural decisions

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

LLM APIs

Postgres

Job description

Flow Engineering is seeking a tech lead manager to head a new engineering team and own delivery while staying hands-on with coding. You will collaborate with product, design, and forward deployed engineers to build the core of our AI-native requirements platform for hardware teams.

You will manage engineers, drive end-to-end product execution, review architecture, and stay technically active. You’ll engage customers and help shape AI-driven features and workflows.