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title: 'Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Flow Engineering'
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# Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Flow Engineering

- **Company:** Flow Engineering
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $240k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flowengineering/b77281cd-bfd0-4885-82eb-8ed0cc75a0fa

## 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 Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead the team that turns signed customers into deeply embedded, growing accounts. Our customers are systems and engineering leaders at aerospace, defense, automotive, and hardware companies, and the value they get from Flow depends on how well it connects to their existing tools and how quickly their teams adopt AI-driven workflows. You will own that outcome. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and revenue. Sales engineers own the technical win before a deal closes. You and your team own everything after: integrating Flow into each customer's engineering stack, building AI workflows around their real processes, driving usage across teams, and expanding accounts into new programs, sites, and business units.

## What you'll do

- Build and lead the forward deployed engineering function, including hiring, setting the operating model, and defining how the team works with sales, product, and engineering.
- Own customer integrations end to end, connecting Flow to the PLM, ALM, CAD, simulation, and issue tracking tools our customers already rely on.
- Design and deploy AI workflows tailored to each customer's requirements and systems engineering process, and turn the patterns that work into repeatable playbooks.
- Own product growth and usage within accounts: track adoption, identify where teams are stuck, and drive Flow from a single team to broad use across an organization.
- Own customer expansion, partnering with account executives to identify new programs, teams, and use cases, and building the technical case for growing each account.
- Take clean handoffs from sales engineers on pilots and convert them into successful production deployments.
- Feed what you learn in the field back to product and engineering, and influence the roadmap based on what customers actually need.
- Stay hands-on: you will write code, build integrations, and sit with customer engineers when it matters.

## About you

- 7+ years in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, software engineering, or a technical customer-facing role, with 2+ years leading a team.
- Strong technical foundation: you can build integrations, reason about APIs and data models, and understand how software fits into a complex engineering stack.
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs or deploying AI-driven workflows in production for customers.
- A track record of driving adoption and expanding accounts, not just delivering projects.
- Comfortable operating across a customer organization, from individual engineers up to VPs and program leads.
- Able to build a function from an early stage, balancing hands-on execution with setting structure for a growing team.
- Comfortable in a fast-moving environment where the product, the customer base, and the team are all scaling quickly.

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with requirements, systems engineering, PLM, or ALM tooling (Jama, DOORS, etc.)
- Background in or working with defense, aerospace, or regulated hardware environments.
- Experience with security and compliance requirements common in these industries (ITAR, CMMC, on-prem or restricted deployments).

## About Flow Engineering

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flow Engineering provides an agentic platform for systems engineering that enables hardware teams to manage requirements, design, and testing through a living system of record and AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series stage not explicitly stated; raised ~$40M total from Sequoia Capital and others)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Pari Singh (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Systems engineering software / hardware development tools
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise – hardware engineering teams in aerospace, automotive, robotics, defense, and energy (e.g., Rivian, Joby, Astranis, Radiant Nuclear)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Help unlock the next generation of hardware” – rebuild systems engineering for the agentic era, enabling teams to design, build, test, and iterate physical systems in hours, not months.

## Products & Services
- **Flow Platform**: A requirements management and systems engineering tool that links requirements, design (CAD), simulations, code, and tests in a single “living system of record”. Features include branching/merging, impact analysis agents, systems graph, flexible data model, and AI agents (e.g., Impact Analysis Agent, Safety & Regulatory Compliance Agent, Mass/Cost/Power Budget Agent). Deployable in cloud, GovCloud, or self-hosted with ITAR, export control, and data residency.
- **Flow v3**: Latest version – first agentic platform for systems engineering, allowing AI agents to perform real engineering work inside hardware development workflows.
- **Flow Engineering Handbook**: Published guide on AI Systems Engineering for the agentic era.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding ~$40M as of most recent round (non‑equity assistance and multiple seed rounds; led by Sequoia Capital and EQT Ventures); Annual Revenue estimated at $2.0M (LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead investor; partner Roelof Botha on board), Patrick and John Collison (Stripe co‑founders), David Helgason (Unity co‑founder), EQT Ventures, Google for Startups
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Used by tens of thousands of engineers across teams like Rivian (1,500+ engineers), Joby Aviation, Astranis, Radiant Nuclear, Impulse Space, Mytra, Volkswagen Group Technologies.
  - Active job postings: 10–12 open roles (as of mid‑2026), with quarterly job posting growth of +66.7%.
  - Backed by Sequoia Capital (partnered in 2025); company has grown to ~27 employees with presence in US, UK, Sweden, Spain.
  - Headcount growth recent month showed -6.9%, but same‑source LinkedIn shows heavily active hiring pipeline.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent‑first systems engineering**: First platform to integrate AI agents that reason across the entire engineering graph (requirements, CAD, simulation, test). Agents perform impact analysis, compliance checks, and budget tracking automatically.
- **Defense‑grade security & compliance**: ITAR/EAR aligned, NIST 800‑171, CUI, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA – essential for regulated industries.
- **Living system of record**: All engineering artifacts linked and version‑controlled with branching/merging, enabling zero‑cost change propagation.
- **High‑value customer base**: Signed marquee hardware companies (Rivian, Joby, Astranis) that are building the next generation of rockets, eVTOL, satellites, and robots.
- **Strong investor backing**: Sequoia Capital (a top‑tier VC) and technical co‑founder endorsements (Collison, Helgason) provide credibility and network.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic transformation**: Doubling down on AI agents that can perform real engineering work (not just assist) – moving from analog/digital to “agentic” era.
- **Scaling to enterprise & defense**: Expanding GovCloud, self‑hosted, and ITAR‑compliant deployments to win defense and compliance‑driven contracts.
- **Category creation**: Replacing traditional requirements tools (like IBM DOORS) with a modern, agent‑centric platform.
- **Global hiring**: Aggressively hiring for engineering (AI, frontend, full‑stack, infrastructure) and sales roles across San Francisco and London.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact at scale**: Work directly on tools used by companies building rockets, electric vehicles, autonomous robots – your code ships into real hardware.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on shipping a V1 quickly, iterating, and maintaining “zero cost of change.” Values include speed, fundamentals done well, maximum effort/maximum fun.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/remote policies not explicitly stated, but roles are listed in San Francisco (in‑office likely for engineering) and London. Equity offered across all roles.
- **Compensation**: Salaries range $120K–$300K for US roles with equity; London roles £80K–£180K.
- **Team culture**: Backed by Sequoia, described as a “small team with huge leverage” – ~27 employees currently but growing fast.
- **Notable perks**: Free trial demo available; engineering handbook published; company rating 4.0/5 on LinkedIn (16 reviews), with strong compensation (4.0) and culture (3.8) scores.

## Sources
1. [flowengineering.com](https://www.flowengineering.com/)
2. [flowengineering.com/careers](https://www.flowengineering.com/careers)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/flowengineering](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flowengineering)
4. [linkedin.com/company/flowengineer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowengineer)
5. [sequoiacap.com/companies/flow-engineering](https://sequoiacap.com/companies/flow-engineering/)

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