Forward-Deployed Engineer (f/m/d)
Forward-Deployed Engineer at Zeit AI (YC S24) works hands-on with customers to connect their data (ERP exports, CRM, spreadsheets, internal databases) to ZeitMind, an autonomous AI data engineer. Day to day you model business logic, deploy production data applications, and feed learnings back into the product; core skills are SQL and working with large datasets.
- Compensation
- €70K–€230K / yr
- Location
- Munich, Germany
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Comfortable and enjoys working directly with customers from Day 1
- Thinks in production systems, not one-off analyses
- Cares whether something works in production and delivers value to end users
- Comfortable with ambiguity and figuring out the right solution
- Solid technical foundation to work with large data sets and critically understand SQL logic
- English at C1 level or above
Nice to have
- Studied at the intersection of business and computer science (business analytics, IT systems engineering, or information systems)
- German language skills (much of the customer base runs in German)
Full description
The opportunity
LLMs are changing how analytical work gets done. Tasks that once required teams of data engineers can now be solved faster and more flexibly, if the underlying data and workflows are set up correctly.
Zeit AI builds ZeitMind, the autonomous data engineer for the European mid-market. We work with real companies and real data: exports from ERP systems, CRM data, spreadsheets, internal databases. Our goal is that non-technical operators answer questions and run workflows using natural language that used to require external support or a lot of manual work.
As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, you make this happen with the customer. You connect data and solve concrete business problems with our product. You are a technical problem solver, the customer's trusted partner, and you feed everything you learn back into the product.
What you will do
- sit with customers across different industries and understand how they operate today and where ZeitMind can take real work off their plate
- solve real-world problems where value is hidden inside of data
- model business logic in ZeitMind and get it running in production
- own customers end to end and build data applications to make critical business decisions
- feed what you learn back into the product
You will thrive here if you
- are comfortable and enjoy working directly with customers from Day 1
- think in production systems, not one-off analyses
- care whether something works in production and delivers value to end users
- are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy figuring out what the right solution is
- bring a solid technical foundation to work with large data sets and critically understand SQL logic
- studied at the intersection of business and computer science, such as business analytics, IT systems engineering or information systems
- speak English C1 or above; German is a big plus (much of our customer base runs in German)
What we offer
- Munich is our home base, while we grow internationally from London. In-person by design, we support your relocation within Europe.
- Regular team offsites for product sprints and staying close to the frontier.
- Zeit AI package: daily lunch allowance, covered dinner in the office, wellpass membership, best tech & tools
- €5k referral bonus if we hire someone you refer.
About the interview process
- First call with Elena
- Founder data interview with Marvin