Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

Tacto · Munichlead

In short

▸Construyes desde cero una función de ingeniería desplegada en clientes (FDE) en Tacto.
▸Trabajas directamente con clientes en su entorno, construyendo soluciones reales con datos reales y luego productizando lo aprendido.
▸Eres el líder técnico y operativo que combina código, liderazgo y confianza para liderar escenarios complejos con directivos de grandes industriales.

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What they ask for

✓5+ años construyendo software cerca de clientes (FDE, consulting técnico, liderazgo en producto).
✓Capacidad para escribir código (Python y SQL al nivel operativo).
✓Experiencia liderando ingenieros o construyendo algo desde cero con equipo.
✓Instinto productivo: distinguir uno-off de patrones reutilizables.
✓Presencia técnica senior con clientes, incluyendo escalaciones a C-level.
✓Alemán nativo o C1, inglés fluido.

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Your Impact Procurement is over 50% of revenue for industrial companies and their biggest lever for profitability. The hard part is not the software, it is that every single customer's reality is different: a different ERP, a different data model, decades of undocumented process. Generic platforms stall exactly there, and that gap is where most enterprise AI value quietly dies. Forward Deployed Engineering is how we close it: engineers who sit inside the customer's environment, build in their data, and turn what they learn into product. This function does not exist at Tacto yet. You will build the motion from the start, collaborating with Product, and discover what Forward Deployed Engineering means for Tacto, figuring out how much value we can generate for leading industrials. Your Tasks Build the function. Charter, operating model, quality bar, metrics. Bring this function to the next level. Hire the right talent. The team is there to grow. Hire exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers and build your own high performing team. Own how we engage customers. Design and establish the processes for how engineers scope, embed, build, and hand over. This is the core of the role, not an afterthought to the technical work. Build, hands-on, in customer environments. Agents, pipelines, custom logic on top of our platform, in real production data. You lead by shipping. Turn one-offs into product. Work directly with Product and Engineering to convert what you build at the edge into platform capability. An FDE org that productises nothing is just an expensive consultancy, and you will make sure we never become one. Lead the first FDEs. Find the rare people who are excellent engineers and credible in front of a Head of IT. Set the standard by being it. Own the hardest customer rooms. Lead escalations with Heads of Procurement and IT and be the senior presence customers trust. Be AI-native. Use AI to change what the function is capable of, then measure it, then build it into how the team works. Your Profile 5+ years building software close to customers: forward deployed or deployment-style engineering, technical program leadership in a product company, or an engineering-heavy path through top-tier consulting at Manager level or above. You write code and you want to keep writing it. Python and SQL at working level, comfortable with data pipelines and integration architecture. 1+ years leading engineers, or you have built something from zero and had people follow you into it. Zero-to-one operator. You are comfortable when the process does not exist yet, and you write it down instead of holding it in your head. Product instinct. You can tell a one-off from a pattern and you will argue the case either way. Senior presence with customers, including C-level escalations, and the backbone to be clear about what we will and will not commit to. Native or C1 German, fluent English. Why This Role is Awesome You are not inheriting a team, you are defining a function that most companies in enterprise AI are only starting to understand they need. Do this well for 12 to 18 months and you own one of Tacto's core technical organisations, with a direct line into the product roadmap and a hand in how leading global industrials adopts AI. What This Role Is - and Isn't This is not a people-management role with technical decoration. If you want to stop building, this is the wrong job. This is not consulting. Nobody here bills days. You are measured on what customers can do afterwards and on what made it into the platform. The first months will be ambiguous by design: you, a handful of accounts, and a blank page. If that reads as risk rather than opportunity, this is not a good fit. Why Tacto Backed to win big. We are Sequoia and Index-funded with €50M+ behind us. Our founders sit at the same table as the people defining the global AI agenda. We're building Tacto to be the lighthouse for European industrial AI.

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