Founding Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding engineering position at an early-stage enterprise AI startup building automation tools that help teams offload repetitive, screen-based workflows to AI. You'll work closely with customers and the founding team to shape both product direction and core technical infrastructure — with real ownership from day one.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship product features end-to-end for enterprise customers.

• Design and implement data pipelines to convert and aggregate large volumes of video and other unstructured data into a data lake.

• Integrate LLM and VLM pipelines into production product workflows.

• Develop full-stack components using Python and FastAPI.

• Collaborate directly with enterprise customers (including PE portfolio company teams) to map processes and identify automation opportunities.

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

What We're Looking For

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

• Hands-on experience building production-ready RESTful APIs with FastAPI in scalable systems — this is a must.

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

• Strong Python proficiency for production environments.

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

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

• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers to understand and solve process challenges.

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

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; thrives in small, cross-functional teams.

• Bonus: experience with data lake architecture and scalable API design for customer integrations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: €80,000 – €120,000 per year

• Equity: Meaningful founding-level equity

• Visa sponsorship: Available

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.