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CLERA

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">About the Role</h3>
We're an early-stage, AI-native startup building a procurement intelligence platform that connects category managers to real-time supplier data and enterprise systems. We're hiring a Founding Engineer to join our small product team on-site in Berlin.
This is a high-ownership role: you'll shape core product areas end-to-end, influence architecture and engineering culture, and ship iteratively with direct customer feedback. As one of the first engineers, you'll work closely with the founding team on major technical and product decisions &mdash; and help define what great engineering looks like as the team grows.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
What You'll Do</h3><ul><li>
Own core product areas end-to-end, from AI agent orchestration to the UI that category managers use daily.</li><li>
Design reliable LLM workflows with evaluation loops, guardrails, and observability that work robustly in production.</li><li>
Build real-time supplier data pipelines, normalization layers, and integrations with enterprise ERP systems.</li><li>
Ship to production regularly and collaborate directly with customers to iterate on real feedback.</li><li>
Make full-stack architectural decisions focused on performance, security, and developer experience.</li><li>
Define engineering culture, tooling, and processes as the team scales.</li><li>
Contribute to the product roadmap alongside the founding team.</li><li>
Mentor teammates and grow toward an engineering leadership path.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
What We're Looking For</h3>
Required:<ul><li>
Strong full-stack foundation with equal comfort across interfaces, back-ends, and the seam between them.</li><li>
Proficiency in TypeScript (front-end and back-end) and Python; experience with Next.js and modern API patterns.</li><li>
Hands-on experience designing and operating AI/LLM infrastructure &mdash; retrieval, embeddings, latency/cost/quality trade-offs, monitoring, and safety guardrails.</li><li>
Proven ability to build and ship SaaS products end-to-end in a startup environment.</li><li>
Experience building data pipelines, normalization, and integrations with enterprise systems.</li><li>
Domain knowledge in ERP, procurement, or related enterprise software.</li><li>
Builder mindset: you default to shipping, learning from users, and iterating fast.</li><li>
Comfortable with ambiguity &mdash; able to define what to build as well as how to build it.</li><li>
Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to work directly with customers and cross-functional teammates.</li></ul>
Nice to Have:<ul><li>
Prior experience in a founding or first-engineer role.</li><li>
Background in procurement, supply chain, or ERP/procurement software specifically.</li></ul>
Important: Candidates must be eligible to work in Germany without employer visa sponsorship. No visa sponsorship is available for this role.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Location</h3>
This is an on-site role in Berlin, Germany. You'll be working alongside the founding team in person day-to-day.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Compensation &amp; Benefits</h3>
Compensation details will be discussed during the interview process. As a founding team member, you can expect a competitive package including meaningful early-stage equity.</div>

Founding Engineer

Zauber

<div>Referral bonus: If you know someone exceptional feel free to connect us via LinkedIn (Dennis Agidigbi), if we end up hiring them for a full-time role, you'll receive 10,000&euro;.
About Zauber
After co-founding and scaling Forto to over $600M in funding, I took a step back to reflect on what&rsquo;s still broken in global logistics. The answer was clear: it&rsquo;s still a human-first, spreadsheet-heavy industry, full of repetitive processes and broken system interoperability.
With the rise of AI agents, we now have the tools to rethink that from the ground up. Zauber builds autonomous agents for the global logistics industry, AI workers that handle operational tasks, talk to systems and humans alike, and get better every day.
We're already live with global logistics leaders in Europe and Asia
Backed by P9 - one of Europe's top early-stage funds
Growing fast and hiring exceptional engineers to join early
Now we are looking for an exceptional Founding Engineer to help us define and build the next generation of AI-powered logistics systems.
What You'll Do
You will help turn vision into product and bring our first AI agents into the hands of real users. This is a high-ownership role, working closely with the founding team and customers to build something truly new. You'll operate across the full stack&mdash;talking to customers one hour and debugging an agent loop the next&mdash;making the foundational technical decisions that define what the product becomes.<ul><li>Talk directly to customers and translate their needs into product direction and system architecture</li><li>Build full-stack features that combine intuitive interfaces with intelligent backend logic, including LLM orchestration, agent workflows, and structured data pipelines</li><li>Push the limits of what LLMs and agents can do in production, working through the hard problems of reliability, latency, and evaluation</li><li>Scale from demo-quality code to robust, production-ready systems, making deliberate tradeoffs between speed and durability as the product matures</li><li>Help shape the technical vision and product strategy of the company</li></ul>
You Might Be a Fit If You...<ul><li>Have experience taking full ownership of technical projects, from architecture through to delivery and iteration</li><li>Are pragmatic and fast in the early days, but know when to raise the bar for scale and quality</li><li>Love writing and shipping code, and are not afraid to throw it away when the problem shifts</li><li>Enjoy speaking with users and iterating quickly based on feedback, treating customer insight as a core input to engineering decisions</li><li>Want to build something ambitious and impactful, from the very beginning</li></ul>
What You Bring<ul><li>Strong skills in Node.js, TypeScript, and React, with an instinct for patterns that move fast without creating debt&mdash;clean service boundaries, event-driven architectures, thin abstractions that are easy to replace</li><li>Experience with distributed systems and serverless infrastructure that handle concurrency, failure, and scale</li><li>Hands-on MongoDB experience, including schema design that balances query performance with flexibility</li><li>Familiarity with observability tooling, ideally Datadog&mdash;tracing across async workflows, using metrics to debug production issues, not just monitor them</li><li>Experience with modern AI tooling: LLMs, vector stores, embedding pipelines, prompt engineering</li><li>Practical understanding of LLM-powered features in production&mdash;eval frameworks, structured output parsing, context window management, error recovery</li><li>A track record of shipping products that create real value</li><li>Curiosity for how industries work and a drive to improve them through software</li><li>High-agency mindset and the ability to operate independently in a fast-changing environment</li></ul>
Location &amp; Logistics<ul><li>In-person Monday to Wednesday in our Berlin office (travel within Europe expected)</li><li>Annual offsite (last year we took the team for 4 weeks to San Francisco)</li><li>Start: As soon as possible</li></ul>
What We Offer<ul><li>Top-of-market compensation and meaningful early equity</li><li>Direct access to real users and fast feedback loops</li><li>A highly experienced team with full trust and autonomy</li><li>The opportunity to shape the foundations of a company and product from day one</li><li>A mission that matters: building intelligent systems to power the future of global trade</li></ul>
Why Now
We&rsquo;re not a demo company. We&rsquo;re in production with real customers, in one of the world&rsquo;s most critical and complex industries. Demand is not our bottleneck, execution is. This is your chance to join extremely early, shape the company, and build what will become the core infrastructure for global logistics automation.
We envision a world where every shipment is proactively managed by intelligent agents. Where operators have superhuman capabilities at their fingertips and trade never stalls.
Building from Europe
What drives us personally is the belief that Europe&rsquo;s long-term prosperity and sovereignty depend on a strong economic engine. We need more AI product-first European global champions on the world stage.
Our mission is to build one of the biggest automation companies in the world - from Europe. While our HQ will be in Europe, we will relentlessly benchmark ourselves with the best globally and sell internationally from the beginning.</div><div></div>

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">About the Role</h3>
This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing, Y Combinator-backed AI SaaS startup in the motion design space as its first engineering hire. The company is building an AI-powered platform that dramatically accelerates animation creation &mdash; reducing what once took hours into minutes &mdash; and has already seen remarkable early traction since launching earlier this year.
As a Founding Software Engineer, you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to shape the technical foundation of the product, own features end-to-end, and help architect a system built to scale to millions of users.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
What You'll Do</h3><ul><li>
Partner directly with the founding team to deliver user-centric product solutions from concept to production.</li><li>
Own end-to-end development of full-stack features with a focus on scalable architecture design.</li><li>
Build and optimize agentic LLM systems incorporating tool-calling, multi-step reasoning, and MCP protocols.</li><li>
Design comprehensive LLM evaluation frameworks including automated benchmarks, human-in-the-loop validation, and A/B testing.</li><li>
Optimize LLM inference performance, cost efficiency, and latency across multiple model architectures.</li><li>
Develop a high-performance motion graphics engine.</li><li>
Drive architectural decisions that support scalable growth to millions of users.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
What We're Looking For</h3>
Required<ul><li>
2+ years of software engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals.</li><li>
Proficiency in TypeScript (dealbreaker requirement).</li><li>
Hands-on experience building or integrating large language models (LLMs), including tool-calling, multi-step reasoning, and MCP protocols.</li><li>
Experience designing and implementing LLM evaluation frameworks (automated benchmarks, human-in-the-loop validation, A/B testing).</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end full-stack features with scalable architecture.</li><li>
Proficiency optimizing LLM inference performance, cost efficiency, and latency across multiple model architectures.</li><li>
Experience with the full tech stack: TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL, GCP, AWS.</li><li>
Prior startup or early-stage company experience with a strong ownership mindset.</li><li>
Willingness to work on-site in Berlin, Germany.</li></ul>
Nice to Have<ul><li>
Background in animation, motion graphics, or creative tooling.</li><li>
High slope / fast-learning profile with a track record of rapid growth.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Compensation &amp; Benefits</h3><ul><li>
Salary: &euro;80,000 &ndash; &euro;160,000 per year, depending on experience.</li><li>
Early-stage equity opportunity as the founding engineering hire.</li><li>
Visa sponsorship: Not available &mdash; candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Location</h3><ul><li>
Berlin, Germany &mdash; fully on-site role.</li><li>
Remote work is not available for this position.</li></ul></div>

Founding Software Engineer

SIKIA

<div>&Auml;rztinnen und &Auml;rzte verbringen bis zu 68 % ihrer Zeit mit Verwaltung statt mit ihren Patientinnen und Patienten. Sikia AI baut KI-Agenten, die &Auml;rztinnen und &Auml;rzten den R&uuml;cken freihalten, damit sie sich auf Menschen konzentrieren k&ouml;nnen statt auf Papierkram.

Unser erstes Produkt, eine KI-Assistenz f&uuml;r Dokumentation und Abrechnung, ist bereits in Kliniken und Praxen in ganz Deutschland im Einsatz und dokumentiert jede Woche tausende Patientengespr&auml;che. Das Produkt funktioniert, die &Auml;rztinnen und &Auml;rzte lieben es, und wir wachsen schnell. Jetzt suchen wir unseren ersten Founding Engineer, der uns von hier auf das n&auml;chste Level bringt.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Aufgaben</h2>

Du baust Seite an Seite mit unserem CTO und verantwortest zentrale Systeme von Anfang bis Ende. Dein Code l&auml;uft binnen Wochen in echten Kliniken. Du sprichst mit den &Auml;rztinnen und &Auml;rzten, die ihn nutzen, und machst ihn dann besser. Maximale Eigenverantwortung, echte Founding-Equity (VSOP), ein Produkt von 0 auf 1.

Das verantwortest du:
<ul><li>Das Python-Backend, das unsere medizinische Echtzeit-Dokumentation in Produktion antreibt</li></ul>
<ul><li>Live-Transkription echter Arztgespr&auml;che: Streaming-Audio, mehrere STT-Anbieter, Qualit&auml;ts&uuml;berwachung und Fallback-Mechanismen</li></ul>
<ul><li>Unseren Applied-AI-Kern: LLM-Evaluations-Pipelines, Prompt-Optimierung, Multi-Provider-Routing und Fallback-Ketten, inklusive der Kosten- und Latenz-Abw&auml;gungen beim Betrieb von KI im gro&szlig;en Ma&szlig;stab</li></ul>
<ul><li>Multi-Cloud-Produktionsinfrastruktur, die das alles im klinischen Einsatz zuverl&auml;ssig h&auml;lt</li></ul>
<ul><li>Greenfield-Projekte, die definieren, was unser KI-Arzt als N&auml;chstes wird</li></ul>

Full-Stack, wenn es z&auml;hlt: Die Arbeit liegt schwerpunktm&auml;&szlig;ig im Backend und in der KI, aber unser Produkt basiert auf Flutter (Windows und Web), und du springst ein, wenn es n&ouml;tig ist. Wir sind ein kleines Team und gehen dahin, wo das Problem ist.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Qualifikation</h2>

Du passt zu uns, wenn du:
<ul><li>wirklich stark in Python bist, unserer Kernsprache, mit mindestens drei Jahren Programmiererfahrung</li></ul>
<ul><li>Dinge baust und nicht nur Tickets abarbeitest: Du prototypisierst am Wochenende, bringst eigene Projekte zum Laufen und willst einem Produkt deinen Stempel aufdr&uuml;cken</li></ul>
<ul><li>echte Systeme von Anfang bis Ende verantwortet und Dinge ausgeliefert hast, auf die sich Menschen verlassen</li></ul>
<ul><li>hohe Eigeninitiative mitbringst: Du erkennst ein Problem, machst den Vorschlag und lieferst die L&ouml;sung</li></ul>
<ul><li>mit modernen KI-Tools arbeitest und tief in Applied AI einsteigen willst (Evaluation, Prompting, Routing, Echtzeit-Pipelines), egal ob bereits erfahren oder hungrig darauf</li></ul>
<ul><li>wie ein Mitgr&uuml;nder denkst: Du hinterfragst unseren Ansatz, erkennst Chancen und bringst Sikia auf das n&auml;chste Level</li></ul>
<ul><li>Empathie f&uuml;r die &Auml;rztinnen, &Auml;rzte und Patientinnen und Patienten mitbringst, f&uuml;r die wir bauen</li></ul>
<ul><li>Deutsch auf Konversationsniveau verstehst</li></ul>

Von Vorteil: Dart und Flutter (vor allem Windows Desktop), ein gutes Produktgesp&uuml;r, ein Hintergrund in Informatik, einem MINT-Fach oder der Medizin, oder du bist Autodidakt mit ernstzunehmenden ausgelieferten Projekten.
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Benefits</h2>
<ul><li>Wettbewerbsf&auml;higes Grundgehalt mit m&ouml;glicher Bonuskomponente, abh&auml;ngig von deiner Applied-AI-Erfahrung. Wir leveln dich an der Arbeit, nicht am Titel.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Bedeutende Founding-Level-VSOP (virtuelle Anteile)</li></ul>
<ul><li>Hardware nach Wahl: MacBook oder Windows-Laptop (unser Desktop-Produkt ist Windows-first)</li></ul>
<ul><li>Urban Sports Club</li></ul>
<ul><li>Hybrid: 3 Tage pro Woche in unserem sch&ouml;nen B&uuml;ro in Berlin-Mitte, plus Besuche in Kliniken und Praxen. Flexible Arbeitszeiten.</li></ul>

Sikia AI baut die Zukunft der KI im Gesundheitswesen.

Wir freuen uns darauf, dich kennenzulernen.

Du erf&uuml;llst nicht jede einzelne Anforderung? Studien zeigen, dass Frauen und People of Color sich seltener bewerben, wenn sie nicht jede Qualifikation erf&uuml;llen. Wenn dich diese Rolle begeistert, dein Profil aber nicht zu jedem Punkt perfekt passt, ermutigen wir dich, dich trotzdem zu bewerben. Vielleicht bist du genau die richtige Person f&uuml;r diese oder eine andere Rolle.</div>

Founding Engineer Applied AI Engineering & Full-Stack (d/f/m)

NexTexAI

<div>
 
 NexTex AI is a Berlin-based deep-tech startup building an AI-powered intelligence layer for textile manufacturing.
 
 
 
 Our platform combines industrial cameras, retrofit sensors, PLC/SCADA signals, edge computing and artificial intelligence to detect textile defects, optimize production processes and generate sustainability KPIs for CSRD and EU Green Deal compliance.
 
 
 
 We are currently preparing our EXIST Startup Grant application and a ProFIT Berlin R&amp;D funding application. Our goal is to build and validate an MVP with pilot textile manufacturers during the first year and scale into one of Europe's leading industrial AI platforms for textile production.
 
 
 
 We are looking for a Founding Software Engineer who wants to join the founding team and help build the technical backbone of the company from day one.
 
 
 Tasks
 
 
 As a Founding Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building the backend systems, cloud infrastructure and AI deployment architecture behind NexTex AI.
 
 
 
 You will work closely with the founders, machine learning engineers and future computer vision engineers to create a scalable edge-to-cloud platform for industrial AI applications.
 
 
 
 Your responsibilities include:
 
 
 
 &bull; Building cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines
 
 
 
 &bull; Designing and developing scalable backend services and APIs
 
 
 
 &bull; Building dashboards, analytics systems and internal tools
 
 
 
 &bull; Developing industrial data pipelines for machine, sensor and camera data
 
 
 
 &bull; Supporting edge-to-cloud communication and industrial integrations
 
 
 
 &bull; Supporting AI model deployment, monitoring and inference workflows
 
 
 
 &bull; Structuring textile production data, defect classifications and sustainability KPIs
 
 
 
 &bull; Working directly with pilot factories and industrial partners
 
 
 
 &bull; Contributing to product architecture and technical strategy
 
 
 Requirements
 
 
 Strong software engineering background
 
 
 
 &bull; Strong Python and C++ programming skills
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with FastAPI, Django, Flask, Node.js or similar frameworks
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with PostgreSQL or similar database systems
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with Docker and containerized environments
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
 
 
 
 &bull; Understanding of REST APIs and scalable software architectures
 
 
 
 &bull; Fluent English
 
 
 
 &bull; Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
 
 
 
 Preferred Qualifications
 
 
 
 &bull; Located in Berlin or willing to relocate to Berlin
 
 
 
 &bull; Professional working proficiency in German (prior work experience in a German-speaking environment preferred)
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with Computer Vision and Machine Learning systems (using frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or ONNX)
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with MLOps and model deployment pipelines
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with Edge AI deployments (NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA or TensorRT)
 
 
 
 &bull; Experience with Industrial IoT, PLC/SCADA systems or manufacturing environments
 
 
 
 &bull; Startup or founding-team experience
 
 
 
 &bull; Interest in textile manufacturing, sustainability and Industry 4.0
 
 
 Benefits
 
 
 &bull; 10% equity participation as a founding team member
 
 
 
 &bull; Approx. &euro;2,500/month through the German Federal EXIST Startup Grant during the first year
 
 
 
 &bull; Significant compensation increase planned following successful MVP validation and funding milestones
 
 
 
 &bull; Opportunity to build a deep-tech startup from day one
 
 
 
 &bull; Direct impact on product, technology and company strategy
 
 
 
 &bull; Access to real industrial production environments and pilot textile factories
 
 
 
 &bull; Work on AI, Computer Vision, Edge AI, Industrial IoT and Sustainability Intelligence
 
 
 
 &bull; Direct collaboration with experienced founders, academic advisors and industry partners
 
 
 
 &bull; Startup coaching, legal support and mentoring through EXIST and ProFIT Berlin
 
 
 
 &bull; Opportunity to shape both the product and company from an early stage
 
 
 
 &bull; Flexible working environment
 
 
 
 &bull; Potential CTO-level growth opportunities as the company scales
 
 
 
 We are looking for ambitious engineers who want to build something meaningful from the ground up. If you are excited about AI, industrial systems, sustainability and entrepreneurship, we would love to hear from you.
 
 
 
 To apply, please submit:
 
 
 
 &bull; Your CV
 
 
 
 &bull; LinkedIn profile
 
 
 
 &bull; A short introduction explaining why you are interested in joining NexTex AI
 
 
 
 Selected candidates will be invited to:
 
 
 
 1. Introductory discussion with the founders
 
 
 
 2. Technical discussion and architecture review
 
 
 
 3. Final founder meeting
 
 
 
 If successful, you will join NexTex AI as a founding team member with 10% equity and play a key role in building the future of industrial AI for textile manufacturing.
 
 
 
 We look forward to hearing from you.
 
</div>

Founding Software Engineer (Backend, Cloud & AI Infrastructure)

Telli

<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">about us</h1> 
Every 10 minutes, 18 million conversations happen between businesses and consumers around the world. 
For decades, the consumer side of those conversations sucked: long queues, robotic menus, repeated explanations, and advice that is often unhelpful. Most people today still cannot simply say what their problem is in natural language when communicating with businesses. 
AI changes that. For the first time, companies can have natural conversations with customers at massive scale. Every B2C company - from energy providers to telcos to insurers - will use AI agents to talk to their customers. The number of conversations businesses will handle is going to explode in the coming years. 
At telli, we are solving the challenges that come with that shift. Today, leading B2C companies like Sky are already using telli to deploy thousands of voice agents to provide their customers with a new experience. But building a first voice agent is easy, getting it to drive real outcomes for customers and businesses is the hard part. telli helps companies build, deploy, and improve consumer-facing AI voice agents at scale. This will become one of the most important software categories of the next decade, and we intend to win it. 
We are a small, AI-pilled team that likes to solve hard problems. Be it engineering, product, or GTM - we build, experiment, and move fast, while heavily leveraging the capabilities of AI models. All of us like to challenge ourselves and take real ownership over what we do, all while still staying humble and keeping a low-ego culture. 
Check out our principles to see how we work.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Your mission</h2>
As the Founding GTM Engineer you build the foundation to scale telli's go-to-market. You shape the telli playbook and turn it into a scalable, automated system. As the GTM counterpart to the founding team and GTM lead, you power the sales function to help telli grow.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
what you'll do</h2><ul><li>
Build our GTM system: you build and scale the infrastructure our sales team needs to achieve their targets by building a signal &amp; prospecting infrastructure that the sales team can convert into opportunites</li><li>
Automate processes: you build scalable, automated processes for our go-to-market motion</li><li>
Sales enablement: you own what we show customers. Demos, sales decks, materials, and assets stay sharp and up to date because of you</li><li>
Own the CRM: you make sure our data is clean, structured, and reliable. The team trusts the numbers because you keep them honest</li><li>
Track performance and build dashboards: you work with the founding team and GTM lead to track the right metrics and make sure we are hitting our targets</li><li>
Shape the playbook: you shape telli&rsquo;s gtm playbook learning from customer interactions and data</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
what makes you a great fit</h2><ul><li>
1+ years of experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Automation, or Go-to-Market Engineering</li><li>
You're analytical: you think in systems and numbers, you approach problems based on facts and data</li><li>
You're automation-first: you have demonstrated success using AI tools (e.g. Claude Code, Clay, n8n) to enhance processes</li><li>
You understand products fast:** you pick up technical concepts fast and know how to use the product to make customers successful</li><li>
You are passionate about gtm tech: you live and breathe the GTM space and stay on top of the latest tools, systems, and influencers</li><li>
You have business sense: you understand how sales works and build systems that move deals forward, not just clean tooling</li><li>
You're hands-on and technical: you're comfortable with tools like CRMs (Hubspot expert) and other automation or gtm tools</li><li>
You have high agency: you don't get blocked by outside factors but find ways to unblock yourself and ship</li><li>
You speak business-level German and English</li><li>
You want to work on-site 5 days a week in Berlin</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
you may not be a good fit if&hellip;</h2><ul><li>
You wait for detailed briefs and shy away from owning a function end-to-end</li><li>
You like building systems in theory but don't understand how sales actually works</li><li>
You automate for the sake of it instead of fixing the underlying process first</li><li>
You only want the &quot;strategic&quot; parts and skip manual work</li><li>
You want to work remotely. We're an in-person team</li><li>
You think this role looks like a 9-to-5 job</li></ul>
Compensation Range: &euro;75K - &euro;95K</div>

GTM Engineer

<div>Referral bonus: If you know someone exceptional feel free to connect us via LinkedIn (Dennis Agidigbi), if we end up hiring them for a full-time role, you'll receive 10,000&euro;.
About Zauber
After co-founding and scaling Forto to over $600M in funding, I took a step back to reflect on what&rsquo;s still broken in global logistics. The answer was clear: it&rsquo;s still a human-first, spreadsheet-heavy industry, full of repetitive processes and broken system interoperability.
With the rise of AI agents, we now have the tools to rethink that from the ground up. Zauber builds autonomous agents for the global logistics industry, AI workers that handle operational tasks, talk to systems and humans alike, and get better every day.
We're already live with global logistics leaders in Europe and Asia
Backed by P9 - one of Europe's top early-stage funds
Growing fast and hiring exceptional engineers to join early
Now we are looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer to help us build with and for customers right in the field. Probably the hottest role in startups right now.
What You'll Do
You'll be the bridge between customer pain and product reality. You will:<ul><li>Sit with logistics teams, understand workflows, and turn chaos into clear system design</li><li>Build fast, AI-powered tools across the stack (Node.js, TypeScript)</li><li>Integrate with enterprise ecosystems (ERP, TMS, SFTP, event queues) and build solid pipelines for messy data</li><li>Shape product direction and tech decisions with the founding team</li><li>Travel with us to key accounts in Europe and Asia</li></ul>
You Might Be a Fit If You...<ul><li>Thrive in early-stage environments and take full ownership of outcomes</li><li>Write clean, fast code and love getting things into production</li><li>Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Are willing to work hard, to create something new and groundbreaking</li><li>Enjoy traveling and working directly with customers</li></ul>
What You Bring<ul><li>Fluency in TypeScript/Node.js; frontend React is a plus</li><li>Experience with APIs, external integrations, and enterprise data systems</li><li>Ability to design and scale backend infrastructure</li><li>Familiarity with cloud infra (Docker, Terraform, GCP or AWS)</li><li>Bonus: experience working with GenAI/LLM architectures (RAG, evals, orchestration)</li></ul>
Location &amp; Logistics<ul><li>Berlin office preferred, but open for hybrid setups</li><li>Annual offsite (last year we took the team for 4 weeks to San Francisco)</li><li>Start: As soon as possible</li></ul>
What We Offer<ul><li>Top-of-market compensation and meaningful early equity</li><li>Direct exposure to customers and decision-making</li><li>A small team of excellent engineers and operators with high autonomy</li><li>A mission that matters: building intelligent systems to power the future of global trade</li></ul>
Why Now
We&rsquo;re not a demo company. We&rsquo;re in production with real customers, in one of the world&rsquo;s most critical and complex industries. Demand is not our bottleneck, execution is. This is your chance to join extremely early, shape the company, and build what will become the core infrastructure for global logistics automation.
We envision a world where every shipment is proactively managed by intelligent agents. Where operators have superhuman capabilities at their fingertips and trade never stalls.
Building from Europe
What drives us personally is the belief that Europe&rsquo;s long-term prosperity and sovereignty depend on a strong economic engine. We need more AI product-first European global champions on the world stage.
Our mission is to build one of the biggest automation companies in the world - from Europe. While our HQ will be in Europe, we will relentlessly benchmark ourselves with the best globally and sell internationally from the beginning.</div><div></div>

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