Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

11 hours ago

Berlin, GermanyMid Level

Responsibilities

Own AI automation use cases from customer discovery through production deployment.
Turn ambiguous enterprise problems into scoped, buildable solutions and ship them quickly.
Build applied AI solutions using LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, embeddings, and heuristics.
Design and implement data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration.
Identify recurring patterns and codify them into reusable templates.
Work directly with enterprise stakeholders, including on-site customer visits, to gather requirements and explain technical trade-offs.
Help shape the technical direction of the product and company.

At least 2 years of experience as a software engineer or data scientist building production systems.
Strong computer science fundamentals from a degree or clearly equivalent formal grounding.
Hands-on experience deploying LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, and embeddings in production.
Full-stack capability with backend API development in Node.js/TypeScript or Python and frontend development in TypeScript/React or similar.
Experience designing data pipelines for document processing, extraction, and validation involving unstructured PDFs and images.
Experience integrating multiple LLM providers such as OpenAI, Azure, Gemini, and Cohere, plus solid prompt-engineering skills.
Familiarity with vector databases, semantic search, or knowledge graphs is preferred.
B2B experience, ideally in a customer-facing or technical customer-success role, is preferred.
Early-stage startup or founding-team experience and comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration are preferred.
C1-level German or above is essential for working with German enterprise stakeholders.
Pragmatic, action-oriented interest in applied AI over theory.