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.