Forward Deployed Engineer - Agentic AI

About the role

Wonderful is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to help deploy Agentic AI systems into production at major enterprises, on timelines measured in weeks and months rather than years. The role suits software engineers who enjoy hard technical problems, real ownership and work with visible impact. It is a founding-team position in Germany, with a mix of home office and travel to clients in Switzerland.

Key responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand their operational challenges and success criteria.
• Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs and implementations.
• Own delivery of the Wonderful platform and guide clients on best practice.
• Build AI agents that integrate with customer systems, data sources and APIs.
• Run ad hoc workshops with client teams and write production-quality code for integrations, logic and workflows.
• Own deployments, including reliability, performance and continuous improvement.
• Test with real data, measure outcomes and iterate quickly.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve the platform, and contribute to tools, documentation and delivery practices.

Required profile

• Several years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and scaling end-to-end production systems.
• Experience integrating platforms into customer environments using APIs, cloud infrastructure, MCP and production data flows.
• Comfortable working directly with customers and owning ambiguous problems; clear communication and strong ownership.
• Interest in building AI-powered systems that work in practice.
• German or French at minimum C2 level, able to communicate with clients in one of these languages.
• Nice to have: experience in forward-deployed, solutions engineering or customer-facing roles; exposure to AI agents, automation or conversational systems; familiarity with cloud environments; experience with TypeScript, Go or Python.

What we offer

• Part of a fast-growing startup in Europe, working on a cutting-edge agentic solution.
• A global company with a local team, joining the founding team in Germany.
• Mix of home office and travel to clients in Switzerland.
• Great salary and early-stage share options.