Founding Engineer (Full-Stack/AI)

About the Role

This is an early, high-ownership engineering role at a seed-stage vertical AI startup building autonomous tooling for the global freight and logistics industry. You will join a small founding team in Munich to design, build, and scale the core product, shaping technical direction from the ground up. The role combines hands-on full-stack engineering, production AI/ML work, and real product ownership.

What You'll Do

• Own and personally design, build, and maintain the most critical parts of the product.

• Build reliable full-stack features that make users radically 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 code 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