Dryft

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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Munich, Germany or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Lead full-stack customer implementations from scoping and onboarding through integration and training.
  • Align IT teams, engineers, and C-level executives across Germany, the EU, and the US.
  • Work hands-on with users to understand operational problems and translate them into product improvements.
  • Prototype features and write production code when needed.
  • Turn deployment learnings into reusable product features, data models, and operational playbooks.
  • Diagnose customer issues, identify root causes, and ship working solutions under pressure.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience in a top-tier role such as consulting, as a founder, or as an early employee at a high-growth startup.
  • A technical degree or technical background.
  • Ability to write production code and understand systems end to end.
  • Strong product judgment and ability to translate customer problems into product features.
  • Ability to work effectively in high-pressure, ambiguous environments and communicate with shop-floor operators through C-level executives.
  • Strong attention to quality, detail, documentation, and professional execution.

Benefits

  • Onsite work in Munich or San Francisco.
  • Visa support is provided.
  • 10–30% travel is expected.
  • High ownership and early responsibility in a founding role.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Dryft

About Dryft

11-50 employees

Dryft builds artificial intelligence that mimics, optimizes, and automates complex human decisions in manufacturing operations. We use a combination of AI agents & mathematical optimization to build what comes after ERPs: systems that think, act, and adapt autonomously across manufacturing operations.

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