Dataleap

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

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About the role

About Dataleap
We raised $3M from YC and angels like Aravind (CEO Perplexity) and Rahul Vohra (Superhuman) to build the agentic operating system for the enterprise. Thousands of agents deployed, doubling revenue every month. Far more enterprise inbound than we can handle.
About the role
You are the engineer on the ground at our biggest DACH customers, based in Munich, working hand in hand with our Deployment Strategist.
When a multibillion-dollar company decides to go AI-native with Dataleap, you show up at their office, sit with their teams, find the workflows that matter, and ship agents that run in production. You scope, build, integrate, debug, and teach. You leave behind systems the customer can own. Then you do it again at the next account.
Part forward-deployed engineer, part founding engineer, part technical sparring partner for the customer's CTO. End-to-end. No PM. No spec. You walk into ambiguity and ship.
You also build on our core product. When you hit a platform limitation at a customer, you don't file a ticket, you work directly with engineering to close the gap, most often by writing the fix yourself.
What you'll do
Embed with our largest DACH customers. Run workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints on site.

Ship the highest-leverage use cases end to end: complex agents, custom integrations, MCP servers, multi-step workflows wired into the systems they already run on (SAP, internal APIs, legacy tooling).

Sit with customer CTOs and platform teams as a technical peer.

Push our own product forward. Identify what's blocking customer value and work with engineering to fix it.

Build agents to automate your own work. Eliminate manual work from your role.

You're a fit if
You're a strong full-stack engineer who can also go deep. Bonus if you know Go.

You're an AI engineer in practice. You've shipped agentic systems, tool-use loops, and LLM features that work under load.

You live in Claude Code, Cursor, and coding agents. You've already scaled yourself in ways most engineers haven't.

You can scope a complex use case in a customer meeting at 11am and have it working by EOD.

You've shipped something from scratch. Founder or early-employee experience is a strong plus.

You communicate sharply with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

You're high agency, high clock speed, low ego, high ownership — and you want to work very hard and be deeply obsessed.

You speak German at a native level and are based in Munich or ready to move.

We index on energy, values, and slope — not years of experience.
What you get
Direct exposure to my network at YC, Founders Inc, and CDTM.

The fastest growth opportunity of your career. I'll make sure of it personally.

Unlimited AI budget. We practice what we preach.

Top-of-market equity for a founding hire — see the range above.

A seat at the table as we build out the European org from Munich.

If you ever want to start your own company, I'll back you.

If this resonates, reach out.
Compensation: $80K – $150K • 0.1% – 0.5%
• $80K – $150K • 0.1% – 0.5%
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Role
Technology & IT Writing Founding Forward Deployed Engineer remote

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Dataleap?
  3. Which of Writing, Founding and Forward have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. Describe a time you solved a problem without waiting to be told exactly what to do.
  5. How do you stay organised and communicate clearly when working remotely?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with Writing, Founding and Forward.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role because I can bring practical experience in Writing, Founding and Forward, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Dataleap needs from this hire.

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