Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Greater Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; United States

The Opportunity

If you've worked alongside hardware teams, you know the damage that results from a missed change request or critical context that was never relayed to the right person. Reflow exists to close that gap. We're building the first AI-powered platform built for hardware product development, one that listens across the tools teams already use, maintains a structured picture of every program, and proactively coordinates across disciplines when things inevitably change.

This is an early role for a hands-on AI engineer to design and build the agents at the core of our platform, backed by a parent company with deep roots in engineering and manufacturing. You'll own the AI systems that set our product apart: agents that understand hardware workflows, anticipate problems, and take action on behalf of engineering teams.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for an AI engineer who works equally well in applied research and production software. You've shipped LLM-powered agent systems to real users, you have strong intuitions about prompt engineering, tool use, and orchestration patterns, and you keep up with a field that changes fast. You're comfortable evaluating new frameworks, models, and techniques on short cycles and making pragmatic build-vs.-adopt decisions as the landscape shifts.

We currently use LangChain's DeepAgent framework for our agent orchestration, but every layer of our AI stack is open to change. The right person for this role understands how agent systems work under the hood, not just one framework's abstractions, and can adapt as better tools and approaches emerge.

This senior engineer will work alongside our engineering team and head of product to build, optimize, and operate the AI agents that give users proactive coordination, risk surfacing, status summaries, and AI-generated deliverables. The role is hands-on. You'll write code daily while contributing to AI architecture decisions and helping define how we evaluate and evolve our agent capabilities over time.

What You'll Do

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Designing, building, and iterating on LLM-powered agents that coordinate across engineering disciplines, surface project risks, and generate structured deliverables (proposals, SOWs, status reports)
• Owning the agent orchestration layer (currently LangChain DeepAgent) and continuously evaluating whether to extend, replace, or supplement it as new frameworks and patterns emerge
• Implementing robust tool-use patterns that connect agents to external systems (project management tools, CAD/PLM platforms, communication channels) via APIs and integrations
• Designing and tuning prompts, chains, and retrieval strategies to maximize agent reliability, accuracy, and usefulness across diverse hardware project contexts
• Building evaluation and observability infrastructure for agent performance, including tracing, cost tracking, latency monitoring, and automated quality benchmarks
• Developing streaming agent interfaces that surface real-time progress, reasoning transparency, and proactive alerts to end users
• Staying current with rapid advances in LLMs, agent frameworks, and related tooling, and translating that awareness into actionable recommendations for the team
• Collaborating with frontend engineers on the UX of AI-powered features and with backend engineers on data pipelines and API design
• Contributing to AI architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices

Technical Requirements

Must Have:

• 5+ years of production software engineering experience, with 2+ years focused on bringing LLM-based applications or agent systems to market
• Demonstrated proficiency using AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development
• Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or custom orchestration
• Strong understanding of LLM fundamentals: prompt engineering, function/tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), context window management, and token economics
• Proficiency with Python in production environments
• Experience integrating LLM-powered features with external APIs, databases, and third-party tools
• Experience designing and operating background job / async task pipelines (Celery, RQ, Temporal, or similar) for long-running agent runs and reliable retries
• Experience building multi-agent systems with planning, delegation, and inter-agent communication patterns
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt new AI tools and frameworks quickly, with a track record of staying ahead of a fast-moving field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean architecture, testing, version control, and code review practices
• Ability to balance rapid experimentation with production-grade reliability

Highly Valuable:

• Direct experience with LangChain's DeepAgent or LangGraph for multi-step agent orchestration
• Background in evaluation frameworks for LLM outputs (automated scoring, human-in-the-loop evaluation, regression testing for prompts)
• Familiarity with vector databases and embedding pipelines (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or similar)
• Experience with model serving infrastructure, fine-tuning workflows, or model selection/routing strategies
• Understanding of authentication/authorization patterns (OIDC, JWT) and secure handling of user data in LLM contexts
• Background in B2B SaaS platforms, project management tools, or technical collaboration products
• Familiarity with hardware development, engineering workflows, or project management concepts (phases, gates, dependencies, requirements traceability)
• TypeScript / React fluency, enough to pair with frontend engineers on streaming agent UIs and reasoning-transparency surfaces

What We Offer

Real Impact: The opportunity to build purpose-built tooling for an entire industry that has never had it

Customer Access: Direct exposure to hundreds of real hardware projects annually through Re:Build's engineering and manufacturing companies

Technical Growth: Hands-on work at the frontier of applied AI, solving novel agent design challenges with real-world feedback loops

Autonomy: Backed by Re:Build while operating with startup independence

Benefits: Full health/dental/vision, bonus program, generous 401K, paid time off, annual learning stipend

Equity & Growth: Participation in Re:Build's LTIP equity program and opportunity for founder equity in potential spin-out

Compensation & Location

Location: Remote-first, with preference for candidates in Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, or other cities with Re:Build offices

Compensation: Base salary range of $143,000 to $215,000 with performance bonus and long-term incentive plan offered. Potential equity stake under independent spinout scenario.

Please note this role is restricted to US citizens or lawful permanent residents only due to exposure to export controlled information.

About Re:Build Manufacturing

Re:Build Manufacturing is a growing family of industrial and engineering businesses combining enabling technologies, operational superiority, and strategic M&A to build America's next generation industrial company. At Re:Build we deploy deep expertise in engineering, operations management, and technology to supercharge the performance of our member companies. We harness deep professional expertise and a candid, principled operating culture to drive differentiated outcomes. Ours is a fast-paced environment where individuals can stretch and be challenged to pursue their fullest potential.

Re:Build was founded to pioneer a profitable model for the revitalization of US manufacturing. We've assembled a powerful set of complementary capabilities and lines of business that enable us to pursue a wide range of end markets. Our acquired businesses are grounded in build-to-print and by-the-hour engineering and design services, and we're using their combined expertise to migrate to increasingly sophisticated program development and production, as well as the generation of our own products. Our unique set of capabilities lend themselves to highly complex systems and products, and we offer customers a range of services including product and systems design, automation, fabrication, assembly, and large volume contract manufacturing. Our customers span a wide array of industries including aerospace, defense, mobility, healthcare, pharma, biotech, clean tech, chemicals, energy, lifestyle, food production, and industrial equipment.

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