Founding Research Engineer
About The Position
FlowGen Labs is hiring a Founding Research Engineer to own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure. The role involves building a secure connector and runtime for understanding complex enterprise systems, developer tooling, and an analysis and planning engine that transforms legacy code. The engineer will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects and help define the company’s culture, engineering standards, and roadmap. The position focuses on designing agentic systems, productionizing AI pipelines, and establishing low-latency inference with observability. It is an in-person role in the San Francisco Bay Area; visa support or sponsorship is available.
Requirements
- Experience orchestrating agentic workflows and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Hands-on use of AI tools, with clear ideas for applying AI to development, testing, data, and support.
- Ownership mentality, crisp communication, and comfort making decisions with 80 percent of the information.
- Ability to move quickly without breaking things and willingness to learn new technology stacks.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with LangGraph.
Responsibilities
- Own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure.
- Build the secure connector and runtime that understands complex enterprise systems.
- Build the tooling experience developers use every day.
- Build the analysis and planning engine that transforms legacy code.
- Work directly with customers on high-leverage projects.
- Help define the company’s culture, engineering bar, and roadmap.
- Design the agentic layer, including self-checking, reflection, and verification passes before results reach humans or downstream systems.
- Stand up inference paths with low-latency serving and token-level observability.
- Productionize prompt pipelines, retrieval, and light fine-tuning where it makes a difference.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
