[Hiring] Founding Forward Deployed Engineer @BLP Digital AG

Role Description

We're looking for the top 1% - engineers who treat their craft like athletes treat performance, and who want to work alongside people who do the same. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're embedded directly in our customers' environments, taking a messy enterprise problem from first conversation to a working production system in days - not quarters. You work as part of a small senior team - alongside a Senior Consultant and other FDEs - and you own the technical solution end-to-end.

• Sit with end-users, process owners, and client engineers to understand the real workflow - and the real problem underneath the stated one.
• Translate the target-state process into a concrete technical solution: architecture, data model, integrations, agent and workflow design - and ship it in days and weeks, not quarters.
• Build full-stack: TypeScript backend, integrations, LLM orchestration, evals.
• Demo early and often. Put working software in front of real users and fold their feedback into the next iteration.
• Make speed / quality / cost trade-offs in real time. Choose build vs. buy vs. configure existing platform capability.
• Own observability and evals once live. Iterate until the system is reliable in the customer's real conditions.
• Earn trust with the client's own engineering and security teams - API access, data flows, deployment, reviews.
• Bring patterns back - reusable components, prompt structures, integration approaches - so the next engagement ships faster.

Qualifications

• Builder background with real shipping experience - you've taken systems from zero to production and kept them running.
• Fluent with modern AI tooling: LLM APIs, tool and function calling, agent frameworks, evals, prompt engineering as a real discipline.
• Strong with TypeScript on the backend. Comfortable with APIs, auth, queues, and integrating with legacy systems.
• Daily, fluent use of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar - expected to ship meaningfully faster than a traditional engineer because of them.
• Customer-facing instinct - you genuinely enjoy being in the room with users, asking sharp questions, and pushing back respectfully when needed.
• You move fast, communicate clearly, and operate well with ambiguity. Comfortable being dropped into an unfamiliar domain and coming back with a working prototype.
• Fluency in English. German is a plus.
• MUST: experience automating business processes in the ERP space (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, NetSuite, or similar), or prior background in consulting, solutions engineering, or founding/building products end-to-end.

Benefits

• Solve real problems, fast. Join a high-growth deep-tech startup tackling real-world challenges for global industry leaders.
• Work at the frontier. We use and build with state-of-the-art tech - the latest LLMs, agent frameworks, and AI coding tools, with the budget and mandate to keep up as the field moves.
• Build with the best tools. No legacy stack to drag around.
• Big responsibility, fast. You own customer engagements end-to-end from day one - architecture, build, delivery, and the relationship.
• Opportunities to grow. You're controlling your personal development and career trajectory in a rapidly growing, internationally expanding startup.
• Exceptional colleagues. You'll be growing alongside individuals from exceptional academic backgrounds and careers.