Senior AI Systems Engineer (Agents & Reasoning)

Backflip AI is building a foundation model for mechanical design, aiming to democratize complex mechanical system design. The Senior AI Systems Engineer will design, build, and scale agentic workflows, creating intuitive high-performance environments that connect human creativity to advanced AI capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• You own a customer-facing product that is powered by an interactive AI workflow
• You’ll connect the world of software and AI with the world of physical manufacturing (like 3D printers)
• Architect and build agentic systems and workflows, leveraging both our mechanical design foundation model and frontier models (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, etc.)
• Establish rigorous evaluation practices, so all the customer sees is magic
• Optimize agentic flows for speed and reliability
• Contribute deeply to product direction: work with customers, design partners, the AI team, and leadership to new AI capabilities into transformative superpowers for our users