Forward Deployed AI Engineer

What You Will Do

• Run the AI Hub for 10+ companies: deployments, updates, configuration, SSO with Entra ID, monitoring, backups and incident handling
• Onboard companies and teams: set up skills, knowledge bases and tools and get each company productive on the Hub
• Be the technical point of contact: when something breaks or a Champion is stuck, you diagnose and fix it. You document recurring issues so they get solved once.
• Connect the Hub where a use case needs it: Microsoft 365 / Graph, CRM, ticketing and ERP systems, through tools, MCP servers and REST APIs
• Turn repeated questions into reusable assets: documentation, templates and short hands-on sessions
• Work with the AI Core Team: share patterns across companies, test new features, and feed back into the platform roadmap
• Support our M&A team occasionally (around 10 to 20% of your time) on technical questions, for example assessing the tech and AI stack of acquisition targets

What We Are Looking For

Required

• German (C1 or higher) and fluent English. You work with managing directors and non-technical teams in German every day. We cannot make exceptions here.
• Production operations experience. You have deployed and operated containerised applications in production (Docker, CI/CD, Linux, a major cloud, Azure preferred), and you were responsible when they broke. This usually means 2+ years in a DevOps, platform, SRE or backend role.
• Python you are comfortable reading, debugging and extending
• Hands-on with LLMs. You use them seriously in your own work and have built something with them, at work or on the side. You know where they fail.
• You explain technical things so non-technical people understand them and can act on them. You are comfortable being the go-to technical person for teams that are not technical.

Strong signals

• Enterprise identity: Entra ID, OAuth, SSO
• Self-hosted LLM platforms such as Open WebUI or LibreChat
• MCP, tool calling, agent frameworks
• Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform)
• A support, solutions or customer-facing technical role in your background
• Experience working across several companies, tenants or a group structure

This role is not for you if

• you want to spend most of your time building new AI products from scratch
• you are looking for ML research or model training
• you want to work only with engineers and avoid direct contact with business teams

Benefits

What You Get

• Real ownership: 10+ companies, one platform, and you are the person who makes AI work there
• A small team in the CTO office with a direct line to leadership. Decisions get made fast.
• Impact beyond your platform: what works for your companies becomes the standard for 55+
• Permanent full-time position , remote-first, with occasional on-site time
• Development: talent reviews, events and conferences. We hire people who want to grow with us.

How to Apply

Send your CV and answer this one question in German , max. 200 words. No cover letter needed.

• Tell us about a system you ran in production that broke. What happened, what did you do, and what changed afterwards?

We are looking forward to your application!

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Posted Nov 02, 2026