Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

CLAR AI; München; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CLAR AI seeks a talented engineer to bridge customer challenges and our agentic platform. You will own the journey from problem discovery to deployed AI-enabled solutions, building rich frontend interfaces with robust backend logic.

You will design architectures, implement APIs, and ship full-stack apps using React, TypeScript, NodeJS or Python. The role values entrepreneurial thinking, customer obsession, and fast, high-quality delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering foundations and production-ready code.
• Experience building full-stack web apps from scratch (React/TS/NodeJS or Python).
• Excellent communicator in German and English.

Responsibilities

• Immerse yourself in customer operations to map high-impact opportunities.
• Design architectures, APIs and full-stack solutions with frontend and backend logic.
• Lead go-live processes with CI/CD, monitoring and iterative improvement.
• Influence platform design standards and internal framework evolution.

Skills

Full-stack development

AI native thinking

Entrepreneurial mindset

Customer obsession

Pragmatic builder

Tools

React

TypeScript

NodeJS

Python

Job description

About Us

Our mission: Putting AI to work. We're not making another "AI app"; we're fundamentally changing how work gets done. We deploy agentic AI systems into real businesses (logistics, ops, healthcare) to solve high-stakes challenges with our proprietary platform. We believe this is the biggest technological shift since the internet, and we're building the company to define it. Following significant early traction, we are expanding our team.

Our Culture

We are a team hungry to build, and our culture is the engine that drives us. We care deeply about outcomes and hold ourselves accountable to both speed and quality of craft. We work on-site in the heart of Munich, believing proximity breeds serendipity - the unscripted breakthroughs and high-trust collaboration that forge our supportive culture and world-class results.

Your Role & Responsibilities

This is no ordinary engineering role. As the bridge between our customers' critical challenges and our agentic platform, you will own the entire journey from complex problem to deployed solution.

• Deconstruct the Challenge: Immerse yourself in our customers' operations, collaborating with everyone from operators to executives to map messy workflows and high-impact opportunities.
• Architect & Build the Solution: Translate unstructured business problems into robust, scalable AI agents. You'll design architectures, define APIs, and implement full-stack solutions that combine frontend interactivity with backend intelligence.
• Drive Real-World Impact: Manage the go-live process from CI/CD pipelines to runtime monitoring. You'll ship fast, iterate on user feedback and telemetry and ensure your agentic system delivers measurable value in live environments. You care about uptime, latency, and reliability as much as UX and accuracy.
• Shape Our Core Platform & Company: Identify recurring technical patterns across deployments to help productize them. You'll influence system design standards and the evolution of our internal frameworks - shaping both our product roadmap and the technical DNA of the company.

What Makes You a Great Fit

You are a brilliant builder, problem-solver, and entrepreneur, combining deep technical skill with business intuition and a relentless drive to deliver.

• Software Engineering: You have strong engineering foundations and quickly write clean, production-ready code. You're comfortable spinning up full-stack web applications from scratch (e.g. in React, Typescript and NodeJS or Python) - building rich, performant frontends and backend logic to power them.
• AI Native: You think like an AI engineer, build on top of foundation models and understand combining model capabilities with retrieval, voice AI, multi-agent architectures, external tools etc. You're excited about designing new abstractions for reasoning, memory, and interaction - the emerging blocks of agentic software.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: You take radical ownership, think in systems, and optimize for outcomes. You can move from whiteboard sketch to live deployment in days - and you know when to ship and when to polish.
• Customer Obsession: You're treating customer problems as your own to design an exceptional user experience and deliver it through code. You're comfortable to travel occasionally to customers. You are an excellent communicator (German & English) with both technical and business counterparts.
• Pragmatic Builder: You thrive in ambiguity and messy customer data and can break down complex problems, moving forward without a perfect roadmap. You have a strong sense of product aesthetics and craftsmanship, ensuring what you build is not just functional, but also thoughtful and polished.

You May Not Be a Good Fit if

• You need a detailed roadmap and clearly defined tickets to be productive.
• You see customer interaction as a distraction from engineering work.
• You prefer to perfect an algorithm in isolation over shipping great solutions quickly.
• You are looking for an established corporate environment and a 9-to-5 mentality.

Why Join Us

• Foundational Impact: This is a rare opportunity to shape a company from day one. Your decisions matter, and you will see the immediate impact of your work.
• Significant Equity: We want you to think and act like an entrepreneur. That's why you receive an equity stake in the company's success - paired with a strong salary.
• Ambitious Work, Serious Fun: We're a group of solid people you'll actually enjoy seeing on a Monday and believe the journey should be as fun as the destination.

Does this sound like you? Let's put AI to work.