Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer | Munich | Competitive Salary + Equity

Early-stage AI company building agents for complex manufacturers, focused on automating the commercial response process.

Their product reads RFQs, extracts technical requirements, generates offers, and turns weeks of inside sales work into hours.

They’ve closed a competitive pre-seed, have paying customers across DACH, the US, Australia and Brazil, and are now scaling towards a Seed round.

Role

You’ll own customer deployments end-to-end, working directly with senior commercial and technical stakeholders while building production AI agents around real industrial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise deployments from kickoff through to production rollout and renewal
• Build and adapt AI agents around RFQs, pricing, technical sales processes, ERP quirks and internal workflows
• Work directly with Heads of Sales, CSOs, CTOs and CEOs to scope problems and drive adoption
• Translate repeatable customer patterns into scalable platform features with the core engineering team
• Identify internal champions and help them prove value inside their organisation
• Represent the product through customer stories, case studies and industry conversations

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, ideally in Python, TypeScript or similar
• Experience or strong interest in AI systems, agents, RAG, LLM tooling or applied ML
• Comfortable using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar to materially improve engineering output
• Evidence of serious ownership, such as a startup, open-source work, student initiative, side project or high-impact role
• Strong customer-facing ability, including executive conversations and structured problem-solving
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, AI or a related technical field from a strong technical university
• Full working proficiency in German and English

Tech Stack

Python, TypeScript, AI agents, LLM tooling, RAG, internal agent harness, production SaaS systems

Requirements / Constraints

Munich-based or open to being close to the team.

Full working proficiency in German and English required.

Occasional customer travel, around 20 to 40%, mostly across DACH.