Forward Deployed Engineer, DACH

About the Role

A fast-growing, YCombinator-backed enterprise AI SaaS startup is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer based in Munich to embed with its largest DACH customers and help them become AI-native. You’ll work alongside a senior Enterprise AI Transformation Lead to scope, build, and ship production‑grade agents and integrations that deliver measurable customer value – and directly shape the product roadmap in the process.

This is a high‑ownership, high‑impact role for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of deep technical work and direct customer partnership. Significant travel across the DACH region is expected.

• Serve as the on‑ground engineer at major DACH enterprise accounts, acting as a technical peer to customer CTOs and platform teams.
• Embed on‑site with customers, leading workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints.
• Scope, build, integrate, debug, and teach customers to adopt production agents and automated workflows end‑to‑end.
• Ship high‑leverage use cases: complex agents, custom integrations, MCP servers, and multi‑step workflows.
• Leave behind systems that customer teams can own and operate independently.
• When platform limits arise, collaborate directly with the internal engineering team – often writing the fixes yourself.
• Push the product forward by identifying blockers and implementing customer‑driven improvements.
• Automate your own work by building agents that eliminate manual, repetitive tasks.

• 3+ years of enterprise software engineering experience delivering production‑grade AI agentic workflows for enterprise customers.
• Proven track record 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 across DACH.

• Experience shipping a product or feature from scratch in a professional setting.
• Strong full‑stack engineering skills – comfortable scoping and delivering end‑to‑end solutions, including integrations with external enterprise systems and multi‑step workflows.
• Hands‑on experience embedding with large DACH enterprise customers: running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints; able to scope a complex use case live in a customer meeting and deliver end‑to‑end.
• Experience building custom integrations with enterprise systems and MCP servers for agent deployment.
• Excellent communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Go programming language experience.
• Founder or early‑employee startup experience.
• Experience with AI‑assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) for building agents.

• High agency, high energy, strong ownership, sharp communication, low ego, and a bias toward fast pragmatic solutions over over‑engineered ones.

• Salary: $80,000 – $150,000 USD annually (or local equivalent).
• Early‑stage equity opportunity at a well‑funded, high‑growth startup.

No visa sponsorship available – candidates must have the right to work in Germany.

• Primary location:
  Munich, Bavaria, Germany (on‑site).
• Significant travel across the DACH region required.
• Not a remote role.