Forward Deployed Engineer, DACH

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 its largest DACH enterprise customers and help them become AI-native. You'll work alongside a dedicated Enterprise AI Transformation Lead, scoping, building, and shipping production-grade agents and integrations that deliver measurable business value — while feeding your learnings back into the core product. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of deep engineering and strategic customer partnership. Expect significant travel across the DACH region. What You'll Do • Serve as the engineer on the ground at major DACH enterprise accounts, partnering closely with the AI Transformation Lead. • Embed on-site with customers to run 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 trusted technical peer and sparring partner for customer CTOs and platform teams. • Leave behind systems that customers can independently own and operate. • Identify platform limitations and implement fixes directly alongside the core engineering team. • Drive product improvements by surfacing and prioritising customer-driven blockers. • Automate your own workflows by building agents that eliminate manual, repetitive tasks. What We're Looking For Must-haves: • 3+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering, with a track record of delivering production-grade AI agentic workflows for enterprise customers. • Hands-on experience shipping agentic AI systems, tool-use loops, and LLM-powered features that operate reliably under load. • Strong full-stack engineering skills; able to scope and implement complete end-to-end solutions, including integrations with external enterprise systems and multi-step workflows. • Proven on-site experience with large DACH enterprise customers — running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints; capable of scoping a complex use case in a customer meeting and delivering it end-to-end. • Experience building custom integrations with enterprise systems and MCP servers for agent deployment. • Native-level German proficiency. • Based in Munich or genuinely willing to relocate, with the ability to travel extensively across DACH. Nice-to-haves: • Go programming language experience. • Founder or early-employee experience at a startup. • Familiarity with modern AI coding and agent-building tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar). • High agency, sharp communication, low ego, and a strong sense of ownership. Compensation & Benefits • Salary: €80,000 – €150,000 per year, depending on experience. • Opportunity to work at the frontier of enterprise AI at an early-stage, well-backed company. • Visa sponsorship: Not available — candidates must already hold the right to work in Germany. Location This is an on-site role based in Munich, Bavaria, Germany . The position involves significant travel across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to work directly with enterprise customers.