Founding AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco

Department: Engineering

Location Type: IN_OFFICE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Role scope

• Designing and implementing production-grade agentic systems that power web experiences and marketing workflows, leveraging advanced prompt engineering and multi-agent architectures to do so
• Architecting and optimizing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems with context engineering
• Strengthening our engineering processes through robust evals, observability, and testing
• Developing and maintaining the core application across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
• Shaping our technical vision and leading architectural discussions. You'll make foundational decisions that influence both Flint's technical architecture and engineering culture.
• Creating and testing prototypes to gather rapid feedback from users

Basic qualifications

• You are a product-first engineer
• You have built and deployed AI products that real users depend on
• You have extensive hands-on experience with prompt engineering, context optimization, and model fine-tuning
• You have strong full-stack engineering skills with experience integrating AI into web applications
• You regularly use AI IDEs like Cursor or Windsurf to code
• You take ownership of problems from start to finish and are eager to learn whatever you need to succeed
• You’re comfortable in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements
• You have enthusiasm for building MVPs and iterating based on user feedback

Preferred qualifications

• You have experience using AI for design system automation and component generation.
• You have a lived understanding of using a website builder (e.g. Webflow or Framer) and/or CMS (e.g. Sanity, Contentful, Strapi).
• Former founder or early-stage founding employee experience.