Forward Deployed Engineer (all genders)

<h1><strong>Forward Deployed Engineer (all genders)</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Thorit GmbH · Böblingen, Germany · Hybrid · Full-time · Available immediately</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll be the engineer on the ground at our enterprise clients. You sit with their teams, find the workflows where AI agents create real value, and build them until they run in production, connected to HubSpot and the systems around it. What you learn in the field, you turn into building blocks the whole team ships with.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Own</strong> the technical delivery of agentic AI use cases from the first discovery workshop to a stable production system</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build</strong> agents and integrations on top of HubSpot, ERP and data platforms, with evals, monitoring and clear acceptance criteria</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Debug</strong> in real client environments and stay until it works, then hand over cleanly to our Managed Services team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Codify</strong> what repeats across clients into reusable connectors, MCP servers, agent templates and eval tooling</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Ship</strong> compliant: every deployment you own meets GDPR and EU AI Act requirements before go-live</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Translate</strong> between business and tech, explaining trade-offs to client stakeholders in German and documenting in English</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Support</strong> our consultants and sales team with technical scoping and fast proofs of concept</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You Bring</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Must-haves</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">4+ years of software engineering, including at least one AI or LLM system you personally took to production (not only a prototype)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hands-on experience with RAG, tool use or MCP, and with evaluating LLM output systematically</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong Python or TypeScript, plus experience with REST APIs, webhooks and integrating business systems (CRM, ERP or data platforms)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience working directly with client or business stakeholders, from understanding the problem to defining scope</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">German at C1 level or higher and fluent English</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Willingness to work from our Böblingen office two days a week and travel to client sites across DACH</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice-to-haves</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with HubSpot APIs, SAP, Salesforce or MS Dynamics integrations</p></li><li>