Forward Deployed Engineer, DACH
- Visa sponsorship: Not available — candidates must already hold the right to work in Germany.
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.
Forward Deployed Engineer for enterprise AI automation, based on-site in Munich with frequent DACH travel. Requires 3+ years, full-stack, AI agents, native German; €80k–150k, no visa sponsorship.
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.