Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA)

We are an in-office company and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments.

Applied Intuition is building a new Forward Deployed Engineering team in Munich the first of its kind in our EMEA organization. As a founding FDE you wont just fill a role: youll help define what great looks like for this function.

FDEs are our most technical highest-ownership engineers embedded directly inside our most strategic customers tier-1 automotive OEMs and suppliers across the EMEA region and beyond. You operate at the intersection of core product engineering and customer delivery: you write and ship net-new features build standalone applications and solve the hardest technical problems that exist at the boundary between Applieds platform and the customers environment.

This is not a support or customer success role. You spend the majority of your time building coding production-quality software designing system architectures and delivering working products inside customer environments. You bring field signals back to Applieds product and engineering teams directly shaping the roadmap.

• Own end-to-end delivery: from initial problem framing and technical scoping through architecture implementation and production rollout inside customer environments.
• Ship production software: build net-new features standalone applications and integrations that solve real customer problems (examples: scenario tooling data pipeline applications evaluation frameworks custom simulation workflows).
• Embedded with customers: work side-by-side with customer engineering and domain teams at their sites; understand their technical constraints debug complex issues and ensure successful outcomes.
• Bridge the product gap: identify where Applieds platform falls short of customer needs build custom solutions that fill those gaps and feed concrete requirements back to product and engineering.
• Set the bar: as a founding member codify deployment patterns build internal playbooks and help shape how the FDE function operates across EMEA.
• Travel regularly: expected 2540% on-site at customer locations across Germany and EMEA.

Must have:

• 4 years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping production code
• Full-stack development skills comfortable across backend API layer and frontend as needed
• Experience working directly with customers in high-stakes technical environments (FDE embedded engineering deep technical consulting or customer-facing SWE roles)
• Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous situations you define the path forward you dont wait for one
• Strong English communication skills; ability to engage confidently with both engineers and senior stakeholders

• Experience in autonomy robotics simulation or automotive software (ROS C Python sensor pipelines or related)
• Experience at a company known for forward-deployed or embedded engineering models
• Background building internal tools or custom applications that live inside customer infrastructure

Nice to have:

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
• Exposure to automotive certification or homologation processes
• Prior work at an early-stage team where you helped define processes from scratch

Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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