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Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Startup | BerlinLocation: Berlin (Onsite)Employment: Full-timePackage: Competitive salary + Equity

AI Futures has been exclusively retained to identify a Forward Deployed Engineer for a well-funded, early-stage AI startup in Berlin.This is for an engineer who wants to do more than work through a backlog. You'll sit directly between customers, engineering and AI, taking real enterprise problems and owning the solution from discovery through to production.

• What You'll DoWork directly with enterprise customers to understand complex problems.
• Design, build and deploy production software and AI solutions.
• Build and improve LLM / Generative AI applications.
• Develop APIs and integrations across customer systems and data.
• Own projects from customer discovery → architecture → engineering → deployment.
• Troubleshoot production issues and turn customer feedback into scalable product improvements.
• Work closely with Product, AI and Engineering on what gets built next.

• What We're Looking ForStrong Software Engineering fundamentals.
• Backend or full-stack experience with Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience shipping production software.
• Exposure to LLMs, Generative AI or AI-native applications.
• Comfortable with APIs, integrations, databases and modern cloud environments.
• Strong customer-facing and communication skills.
• Able to take ambiguous problems and independently build solutions.
• Startup / early-stage experience is highly desirable.
• High ownership, commercially minded and genuinely interested in AI.

• Why Join?Join an early-stage, well-funded AI startup.
• Work directly with enterprise customers and the founding team.
• Build AI products that actually reach production.
• Significant technical and product ownership.
• Help shape the product as the company scales.
• Equity participation and long-term upside.