# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Munich, Germany
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, C++, ROS, Docker, Kubernetes, Backend Development, Frontend Development, API Development, Sensor Pipelines, Simulation, Data Pipelines, System Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Build and deploy production software, applications, and integrations directly within strategic automotive customer environments across EMEA. The role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience, full-stack capability, customer-facing technical experience, and strong autonomy.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery, from problem framing and technical scoping through architecture, implementation, and production rollout inside customer environments.
- Build and ship production-quality software, including net-new features, standalone applications, and integrations such as scenario tooling, data pipeline applications, evaluation frameworks, and custom simulation workflows.
- Work side-by-side with customer engineering and domain teams at their sites to understand technical constraints, debug complex issues, and ensure successful outcomes.
- Identify gaps between the platform and customer needs, build custom solutions, and feed requirements back to product and engineering teams.
- Establish deployment patterns, create internal playbooks, and help shape the Forward Deployed Engineering function across EMEA.
- Travel 25–40% to customer locations across Germany and EMEA.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping production code.
- Full-stack development skills across backend, API, and frontend layers.
- Experience working directly with customers in high-stakes technical environments, such as forward-deployed engineering, embedded engineering, deep technical consulting, or customer-facing software engineering.
- Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous situations and define a path forward.
- Strong English communication skills and confidence engaging with engineers and senior stakeholders.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience in autonomy, robotics, simulation, or automotive software.
- Experience with ROS, C++, Python, or sensor pipelines.
- Experience at a company with a forward-deployed or embedded engineering model.
- Experience building internal tools or custom applications within customer infrastructure.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Exposure to automotive certification or homologation processes.
- Experience helping define processes at an early-stage company.

## Compensation and Benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation per year.
- €19 lunch budget and €19 dinner budget, plus free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office.
- €965 annual learning and development budget.
- €580 annual fitness budget.
- Subsidized Wellpass membership.
- €25 monthly contribution toward the Deutschlandticket.
- Generous parental leave in addition to statutory parental leave.

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