Founding Engineer (Full-Stack/AI)

About the Role

This is an early, high-ownership engineering role at a seed-stage AI logistics startup building tools that make freight forwarding operations autonomous. You'll join a small, technical team in Munich and have direct influence over product architecture, AI strategy, and the company's technical direction from the ground up.

What You'll Do

• Own and personally design, build, and maintain the most critical parts of the core product.

• Ship reliable full-stack features that make users radically more efficient in their daily workflows.

• Evaluate, benchmark, and fine-tune AI capabilities to maximise domain accuracy and contextual performance.

• Continuously experiment with new model releases, frameworks, and agentic techniques in production.

• Navigate and improve large-scale legacy codebases to add structure and scalability.

• Engineer infrastructure and automation to support heavy data and AI workloads.

• Collaborate closely with founders and teammates as a hands-on, high-ownership contributor.

What We're Looking For

• Founder-level drive, extreme ownership, and a results-oriented, autonomous work style.

• Around 2–3 years of professional experience, though strong personal projects or other track records are equally valued.

• Strong full-stack engineering skills with the ability to move fluidly across backend and cloud environments.

• Fluency in Python; familiarity with Go is a strong plus.

• Practical AI/ML experience: benchmarking, fine-tuning, integrating LLMs, and running experiments in production.

• Comfort engineering for scale, automating systems, and working with complex legacy codebases.

• Strong CS fundamentals, intellectual humility, and exceptional self-discipline.

• Prior startup or entrepreneurial experience is preferred; enthusiasm for on-site work in Munich is essential.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €60,000 – €90,000 per year. Equity participation via options (up to ~1.5%) is available as an early team member. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.