Forward Deployed Engineer, DACH

ABOUT THE ROLE
A fast-growing, Y Combinator–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.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
– Serve as the on-the-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 — and often write 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.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Must-haves (dealbreakers):
– 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.
Required:
– 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.
Nice to have:
– 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.
Traits we value: High agency, high energy, strong ownership, sharp communication, low ego, and a bias toward fast pragmatic solutions over over-engineered ones.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
– 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
LOCATION
– Primary location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany (on-site)
– Significant travel across the DACH region required
– Not a remote role