Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Own engineering execution Drive delivery across the product engineering team. Set technical direction, unblock teams, and hold the bar on quality, reliability, and velocity. Partner with product leadership to scope, sequence, and ship work that moves the needle.
What they're looking for
- Engineering Leadership: 4+ years managing engineering teams, including hiring, mentorship, performance management, and retaining top talent, with a track record of building high-performing cultures
- Technical Depth: 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (prior to management) with the ability to review PRs, architect solutions, and credibly engage in technical debates
- Execution & Delivery: Experience shipping and iterating on complex, customer-facing web applications at scale, under real-world deadlines and resource constraints
- Product & Stakeholder Influence: Proven ability to work directly with product and design to scope and ship features, plus experience influencing VP/C-suite stakeholders to drive alignment on contested decisions
- AI & Full-Stack Proficiency: Experience building AI-integrated or agentic software products in production, with full-stack comfort across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Adaptive Mindset: Thrives in chaos and ambiguity, with a history of building from zero to one in early-stage environments
More about this role
Flux is taking the hard out of hardware. To do this, we’re building the world's first AI hardware engineer. Founded in 2019, our platform enables anyone to go from idea to manufacturable board using nothing more than a natural language prompt. This democratizes a process that has historically required years of specialized expertise.
We're going after a $15B+ electronic design automation market, backed by 8VC, Bain Capital Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Outsiders Fund, Figma board member John Lilly, and GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner. In February 2026, we closed a total of $37M in funding to accelerate that mission.
What happens when we unlock the ability for anyone to make hardware? We fundamentally reshape the world. That's our mission, and we're just getting started.
Flux · San Francisco, CA · In-Office · Senior Level
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to own how software gets built at Flux. You will set the technical bar for our product engineering teams, drive architectural decisions across the stack, and ensure we are shipping with the speed and quality this moment demands. You will partner closely with product and design to shape what we build, and with...
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