Forward Deployed Engineer, DACH

Clera•San Francisco, CA

7d•$80,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

A fast-growing, Y Combinator–backed enterprise AI SaaS startup is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer based in Munich to embed with its largest DACH customers and help them become AI-native. You'll work alongside a senior Enterprise AI Transformation Lead to scope, build, and ship production-grade agents and integrations that deliver measurable customer value — and directly shape the product roadmap in the process. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of deep technical work and direct customer partnership. Significant travel across the DACH region is expected.

Requirements

3+ years of enterprise software engineering experience delivering production-grade AI agentic workflows for enterprise customers.
Proven track record shipping agentic AI systems, tool-use loops, and LLM-powered features that operate reliably under load.
Native-level German proficiency.
Based in Munich or willing to relocate, with the ability to travel across DACH.
Experience shipping a product or feature from scratch in a professional setting.
Strong full-stack engineering skills — comfortable scoping and delivering end-to-end solutions, including integrations with external enterprise systems and multi-step workflows.
Hands-on experience embedding with large DACH enterprise customers: running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints; able to scope a complex use case live in a customer meeting and deliver end-to-end.
Experience building custom integrations with enterprise systems and MCP servers for agent deployment.
Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Must have the right to work in Germany.

Nice To Haves

Go programming language experience.
Founder or early-employee startup experience.
Experience with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) for building agents.

Responsibilities

Serve as the on-the-ground engineer at major DACH enterprise accounts, acting as a technical peer to customer CTOs and platform teams.
Embed on-site with customers, leading workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints.
Scope, build, integrate, debug, and teach customers to adopt production agents and automated workflows end-to-end.
Ship high-leverage use cases: complex agents, custom integrations, MCP servers, and multi-step workflows.
Leave behind systems that customer teams can own and operate independently.
Collaborate directly with the internal engineering team — and often write the fixes yourself — when platform limits arise.
Push the product forward by identifying blockers and implementing customer-driven improvements.
Automate your own work by building agents that eliminate manual, repetitive tasks.