Founding Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Munich

Employment Type: FullTime

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.