Lyceum

Forward Deployed Engineer AI Inference

Berlin, Germany full-time Mid Salary not listed
full-time Mid level Technology & IT Curated
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The Role
You will own the technical side of our largest and most complex inference deals, from first discovery call to go-live. You're the trusted technical counterpart for our customers' CTOs and ML leads, you design the setups that run their models, and you work hand in hand with our commercial team to get deals closed.
You'll be one of two senior technical owners of our inference deals. Together with our Inference Sales Engineering lead, you'll also turn what we learn in the field into a repeatable playbook and product.

What You'll Do
Own the technical side of our largest and most complex inference deals end to end, from discovery to go-live

Be the senior technical counterpart for customers' CTOs and ML leads on architecture, sizing, SLAs, latency/throughput trade-offs and cost

Design dedicated inference setups: model choice, GPU type and count, parallelism, quantization, inference engine and configuration

Lead benchmarks and proofs of concept, and turn the results into clear recommendations

Scope customer customizations with our engineering team and decide what becomes product

Build the playbook and tooling for matching workloads to GPUs, and feed our roadmap with what you learn in the field

Work in tandem with our commercial team on pricing, proposals and the technical parts of contracts

What We're Looking For
A degree in computer science, data science or a closely related field

4+ years in a customer-facing technical role, e.g. solutions or sales engineer, forward deployed engineer, ML engineer working closely with customers, or technical consultant

Hands-on experience with LLM inference and model serving (e.g. vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Triton) and GPU sizing

A track record of owning the technical side of complex B2B deals, ideally with enterprise customers

You're credible with customer CTOs and engineers alike, and you explain trade-offs clearly

Entrepreneurial mindset: give you an outcome, and you find a way without getting blocked

Fluent English

Bonus Points
Experience at an inference provider, GPU cloud or AI infrastructure company

Benchmarking and performance optimization: throughput, latency, cost per token

Experience with quantization, parallelism strategies, KV-cache and batching

Startup experience

German

Why us?
Outstanding team: Work with some of the best engineers in the world, coming from hedge funds, big tech, AI startups and top universities

Once in a lifetime opportunity: Early-stage company in the fastest-growing market in the world

Ownership: Shape how European AI companies access GPU compute

European mission: Build sovereign, GDPR-compliant AI infrastructure for the next generation of deep-tech

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  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Forward Deployed Engineer AI Inference role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Lyceum?
  3. Which of Sales, Forward and Deployed 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 handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with Sales, Forward and Deployed.
  • 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 are the main problems this hire should help solve?
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  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
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I am interested in the Forward Deployed Engineer AI Inference role because I can bring practical experience in Sales, Forward and Deployed, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Lyceum needs from this hire.

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