Enterprise AI Field Engineer (FDE) — Milan, Equity + Bonus

Wave Group; Milano; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Wave Group is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in Milan. The role focuses on hands-on deployment of AI systems for enterprise clients, with 70% engineering and 30% client-facing work. You’ll customize solutions, build modules, and drive real production outcomes.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup with 1-2 office days per week, partnering with a rapidly scaling startup backed by equity and strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• Fluency in English and Italian is a must.
• Direct customer-facing experience (FDE, field engineering, consulting).
• Strong Python and FastAPI foundations.
• Experience with LLMs and Agentic AI in production.
• Hands-on debugging and problem solving in high-velocity startups.
• Experience with AI Voice Agents / Conversational AI is a plus.
• Additional languages beyond English/Italian are beneficial.
• FDE/Solution engineering on agentic AI/LLM-based products preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical bridge to enterprise customers in the market.
• Spend ~70% time building and deploying, ~30% client-facing.
• Translate field learnings into reusable modules and playbooks.

Skills

English

Italian

Direct customer-facing

Python

FastAPI

LLMs in prod

Debugging

Agentic AI

Multi-language

Tools

N/A

Job description

Wave Group is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in Milan. The role focuses on hands-on deployment of AI systems for enterprise clients, with 70% engineering and 30% client-facing work. You’ll customize solutions, build modules, and drive real production outcomes.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup with 1-2 office days per week, partnering with a rapidly scaling startup backed by equity and strong growth potential.