PMC1067 Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Onsite; Stuttgart, Germany)

Pinkmoonconsulting; Stuttgart; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinkmoonconsulting is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in Stuttgart, Germany to deliver trusted AI capabilities into secure environments. This high-impact engineering role involves extensive collaboration with technical teams and offers a chance to work closely with customers to implement real technical solutions.

The ideal candidate will have a Top Secret clearance and substantial experience in backend development, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. This position offers a unique opportunity to apply advanced engineering skills where speed and trust matter.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Five to seven years of relevant hands-on engineering experience.
• Linux proficiency in production-like environments.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical representative in a secure customer environment.
• Deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and support software systems.
• Write scripts, automate deployments, and resolve technical issues.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to meet customer needs.
• Bring field feedback to internal technical teams for deployment success.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Scripting

Automation

Data pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Microsoft Azure

DevOps fundamentals

Job description

Our recruitment firm is partnering with a fast-growing AI and machine learning company supporting mission‑critical national security environments. We are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to help deliver trusted AI capabilities directly into secure customer settings in Germany, with a focus on Stuttgart. This is a high‑impact, hands‑on engineering role for someone who wants to be close to the mission, close to the user, and deeply involved in deploying real technical solutions, not simply advising from the sidelines. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, secure deployments, and applied AI/NLP systems.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the technical representative in a secure customer environment, with meaningful on‑site presence expected several days per week.
• Deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and support software systems in restricted or government-hosted infrastructure.
• Write scripts, automate deployments, integrate with customer systems, and resolve technical issues across backend services, containers, data pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, DevOps, operators, analysts, and security stakeholders to turn customer needs into practical engineering outcomes.
• Help shape long‑term deployment success by bringing field feedback back to internal technical teams.

What We’re Looking For

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Approximately five to seven years of relevant hands‑on engineering experience.
• Strong Python, backend development, scripting, automation, or data pipeline experience.
• Linux proficiency and comfort operating from the shell in production-like or secure environments.
• Hands‑on Docker and Kubernetes experience, including deploying containers and configuring services.
• Cloud experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure; secure or government cloud exposure is a plus.
• Strong DevOps fundamentals, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment tooling.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and mission‑focused stakeholders while remaining deeply hands‑on.

Nice to Have

• Experience with NLP, semantic search, embeddings, model tuning, or applied language model workflows.
• Experience deploying or integrating machine learning systems on customer data.
• ETL, large‑scale data movement, identity management, authentication, authorization, or full‑stack development experience.
• Prior work with defense, intelligence, national security, air‑gapped, hardened, or high‑compliance environments.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This role offers the chance to apply advanced engineering skills to problems where speed, trust, and decision advantage matter. You will join an organization investing heavily in generative AI, machine learning, and secure product deployments, while playing a visible role in the early phase of a strategically important customer project. If you are a cleared engineer who enjoys ownership, ambiguity, secure environments, and meaningful mission impact, this is an opportunity to help bring AI‑enabled capabilities directly to the people who need them most.