Founding Engineer (Full-Stack/AI)

About the Role

This is an early engineering hire at a seed-stage AI logistics startup, joining a small founding team to build and scale the core product that makes freight forwarding operations autonomous. You will drive critical architecture decisions, ship full-stack features, and push AI capabilities in production, directly shaping the company's technical direction from the ground up.

What You'll Do

Own the design, development, and maintenance of the most critical parts of the product.

Build reliable full-stack features that make users measurably more efficient.

Evaluate, benchmark, and fine-tune AI capabilities to maximize domain accuracy and context.

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

Ship promising approaches quickly and iterate based on data and user feedback.

Navigate and improve large-scale, complex 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

Hands-on experience with AI/ML and LLM systems: benchmarking, fine-tuning, and integrating models in production.

Practical logistics or freight-forwarding domain knowledge.

Strong full-stack engineering skills with fluency across backend and cloud environments.

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

Proven track record building robust, real-world production systems (not primarily mobile or narrowly algorithmic/computer-vision work).

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

Startup or entrepreneurial experience, with founder-level drive, ownership, and adaptability.

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

Around 2 to 3 years of professional experience, though strong project track records are equally welcome.

Fluent spoken English sufficient for fluid technical discussion.

Willingness to work on-site in Munich or to relocate.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: 60,000 to 90,000 EUR annually . Equity participation via options (up to approximately 1.5%) is available as part of an early-hire package. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany . This is not a remote role.