Forward Deployed Engineer Dach
clera
📍 munich💼 fulltime💰 €80–€150/hr🕐 1mo ago🔗 arbeitnow
Job Description
### About the Role
A fast-growing, Y Combinator–backed enterprise AI automation company is hiring a **Forward Deployed Engineer** based in Munich to embed directly with major DACH enterprise customers and help them become AI-native. You will work alongside an Enterprise AI Transformation Lead, scoping, building, and shipping production-grade AI agents and integrations that deliver measurable business value — and feed those learnings back into the core product.
This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of engineering and customer success. You will be on the ground with customers, acting as a technical peer to CTOs and platform teams, and leaving behind systems they can own and operate independently.
Significant travel across the DACH region is expected. Native-level German proficiency is required. **Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.**
### What You'll Do
* Serve as the engineer on the ground at major DACH enterprise accounts, partnering closely with the Enterprise AI Transformation Lead.
* Embed on-site with customers, running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints.
* Scope, build, integrate, debug, and teach customer teams to adopt production AI agents and workflows.
* Ship end-to-end, high-leverage use cases: complex agents, custom integrations, MCP servers, and multi-step workflows.
* Act as a technical peer and sparring partner with customer CTOs and platform teams.
* Deliver solutions customers can own and operate independently after you leave.
* Identify platform limitations and work directly with internal engineering — often writing fixes yourself.
* Push the product forward by surfacing and implementing customer-driven improvements.
* Automate your own work by building agents that eliminate manual tasks.
### What We're Looking For
**Dealbreakers (must-haves):**
* 3+ years of enterprise software engineering experience delivering production-grade AI agentic workflows for enterprise customers.
* Demonstrated experience shipping agentic AI systems, tool-use loops, and LLM-powered features that operate reliably under load.
* Native-level German proficiency.
* Based in Munich or willing to relocate, with the ability to travel extensively across DACH.
**Required:**
* Experience shipping a product or feature from scratch in a professional engineering setting.
* Strong full-stack engineering skills with the ability to scope and implement end-to-end solutions, including external system integrations and multi-step workflows.
* On-site customer-facing experience with large DACH enterprises — running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints; able to scope a complex use case in a customer meeting and deliver it end-to-end.
* Experience building custom integrations with enterprise systems and MCP servers for agent deployment.
* Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* High agency, high energy, sharp communication, low ego, and strong ownership mindset.
**Nice to Have:**
* Go programming language experience.
* Founder or early-employee experience at a startup.
* Experience with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) for building and deploying agents.
### Compensation & Benefits
* **Salary:** €80,000 – €150,000 per year, depending on experience.
* Early-stage equity opportunity at a well-funded, high-growth company.
* Work at the cutting edge of enterprise AI automation with a team with backgrounds at top-tier tech, consulting, and engineering organisations.
### Location
* **Primary location:** Munich, Bavaria, Germany — on-site.
* Significant travel across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH region) is a core part of the role.
* Visa sponsorship is **not available**; candidates must have the right to work in Germany.
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