Forward Deployed Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a founding-team role at a Berlin-based, pre-seed AI-native platform built for private market operations — think fund accounting, treasury, and transfer agency automation powered by autonomous AI agents. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll own technical delivery end-to-end: sitting with customers to understand their workflows, translating those workflows into production-grade AI deployments, and feeding real-world insights back into the core product. You'll be a critical bridge between customer success and product evolution at a company operating at the frontier of AI in financial services. The stack is modern and lean: TypeScript, NestJS, Postgres, Prisma, Inngest, Mastra, React, TanStack, and Tailwind. You'll work closely with a small, high-caliber founding team and have outsized influence on how the product grows. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Manage technical delivery across the full project lifecycle — from initial discovery through to production launch. - Collaborate directly with customer operations teams in private markets to map workflows, surface pain points, and identify adoption barriers. - Convert customer processes into AI-driven, production-ready workflows on the platform. - Build customer-tailored prototypes with rapid iteration cycles, making informed scope adjustments along the way. - Bring deployment learnings back into product planning to continuously sharpen the platform. - Develop standardized approaches and reusable components from recurring patterns across customer deployments. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Required: - Proven ability to transform customer workflows into production deployments of AI-driven systems (agents, LLM pipelines, or similar). - End-to-end technical ownership mindset — you're comfortable driving a project from discovery to go-live without heavy scaffolding. - Experience engaging and collaborating with stakeholders in operations-heavy, process-rich environments (private markets / financial services a strong plus). - Proficiency deploying AI/ML systems to production: monitoring, rollback, reliability practices. - Eligibility to work in Germany without visa sponsorship and willingness to work on-site in Berlin. Nice to Have: - Comfort operating in a small founding-team environment with high ambiguity, fast iteration, and broad scope. - Familiarity with fund accounting, fund administration, or private market operations workflows. - Experience with any part of the tech stack: TypeScript, NestJS, React, Postgres, or LLM orchestration frameworks. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience. - Early-stage equity opportunity with a founding team. - High-impact, high-ownership role with direct influence on product direction. LOCATION - On-site in Berlin, Germany — this is a fully in-person role. - Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.