# Director of Engineering - Applied AI [Flowengineering](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Flowengineering) · London · Posted today Director [AI & ML](https://gurify.com/jobs/ai-ml) [Apply on the original posting → (opens in a new tab)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flowengineering/4585b7ba-849c-4358-b97e-327f3a430d77) ## 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. ### Our stack - TypeScript/Node.js and Python for backend and AI services. - Modern LLM APIs and orchestration libraries for building agentic workflows. - Postgres and other managed cloud services for data and state. **Live in Flowengineering’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role. 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