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Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Flow Engineering
$240–300K / year · San Francisco, California, US
Flow Engineering builds an AI-native requirements platform where hardware teams work with AI agents to design and validate complex systems, with changes verified and propagated across the engineering toolchain.
Flow Engineering, founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco with operations in London, builds an AI-native requirements platform for hardware teams. The product serves as a system of record for hardware development: engineers collaborate with AI agents to design, validate and evolve complex systems, while changes are automatically verified and propagated downstream across the wider engineering toolchain. The stated purpose is to replace legacy waterfall processes in hardware development with continuous iteration, breaking down silos between internal teams and external partners working in real time from a single source of truth.
The technical work spans AI agents, systems engineering tooling, automated change verification and propagation, and a real-time collaboration layer underpinning a digital thread across the engineering ecosystem. The company raised a $23M Series A and lists Rivian, Joby Aviation, Astranis, Radiant Nuclear, Skydio and Impulse Space among its named customers. Its stated verticals are aerospace, automotive, defense, space, satellites, robotics, new energy, nuclear and fusion technologies.
The company's ambition, as it frames it, is to reinvent how humanity develops its most important machines - invoking moon landings, fusion power and interplanetary colonies as the class of problem it intends to serve. Practically, this translates into an emphasis on speed and rigour in engineering, and on treating requirements as a live, verifiable artefact rather than a static document. Roles are likely to suit engineers who are drawn to hard, systems-level problems and to the pace of companies building at the frontier of hardware.