# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: Berlin - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: €72K – €100K - Posted: August 27, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is a founding-team engineering role at an early-stage B2B AI startup in the construction technology space, sitting at the intersection of engineering and customer success. You'll own AI automation use cases end-to-end — from understanding enterprise customer problems to shipping production-ready solutions — with real influence over product direction and company trajectory from day one. ### What You'll Do * Own new AI automation use cases end-to-end, from customer discovery through production deployment. * Turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped, buildable solutions and ship them within weeks. * Build with modern applied AI — LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, embeddings, and heuristics — to solve high-impact enterprise problems. * Design and implement data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration. * Identify recurring patterns across projects and codify them into reusable templates. * Work directly with enterprise stakeholders on-site to gather requirements and validate solutions. * Help shape the technical direction of both the product and the company. ### What We're Looking For * 2+ years of experience as a software engineer or data scientist building production systems. * Hands-on experience deploying applied AI solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, embeddings) in production. * Strong CS fundamentals — formal degree or clearly equivalent grounding. * Full-stack capability: backend API development (Node.js/TypeScript or Python) and frontend (TypeScript/React or similar). * Experience designing data pipelines for document processing, extraction, and validation with unstructured data (PDFs, images, documents). * Experience integrating multiple LLM providers (e.g. OpenAI, Azure, Gemini, Cohere) and solid prompt engineering skills. * Familiarity with vector databases, semantic search, or knowledge graphs is a plus. * Prior B2B experience, ideally in a customer-facing or requirements-gathering capacity. * Background in early-stage startups or founding teams; comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration. * C1+ German language proficiency — this role involves direct engagement with German enterprise stakeholders. * Pragmatic, action-oriented, and excited about applied AI over pure theory. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary range: **€72,000 – €100,000** per year. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. ### Location On-site, five days per week in **Berlin, Germany**, with occasional travel to customer sites. Candidates must be based in Berlin or willing to relocate. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: