Founding Engineer

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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.