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Founding Engineer

MunichOn-siteLead$86k–$130kFound today
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About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage enterprise AI startup, sitting at the heart of the core product and technical infrastructure. You'll work directly alongside the founding team to build AI-powered automation tools that help enterprise customers offload repetitive, high-volume work — making a tangible impact from day one.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship product features and technical tooling directly for enterprise customers.

  • Design and implement data pipelines to convert and aggregate large volumes (1,000+ hours) of video and other unstructured data into a data lake.

  • Integrate LLM and VLM pipelines into core product workflows.

  • Develop full-stack components using Python and FastAPI.

  • Collaborate with customer teams (including PE portfolio companies) to map existing processes and identify automation opportunities.

  • Enable scalable integrations to support land-and-expand customer growth strategies.

What We're Looking For

  • 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience building and shipping production systems.

  • Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience building production-ready RESTful APIs with FastAPI in scalable systems.

  • Proven experience integrating, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs and/or VLMs in production pipelines.

  • Deep experience designing and implementing data pipelines for large volumes of unstructured video data, including video analytics workflows.

  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, infrastructure, and deployment.

  • Prior experience at an early-stage startup with direct involvement in product and technical decisions.

  • Experience working directly with enterprise customers to understand workflows and drive automation solutions.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable collaborating across small, cross-functional teams.

  • A founder-level mindset — high ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to shape product direction.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €80,000 – €120,000 per year, plus meaningful equity as a founding team member. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Germany.

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