Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Description

BLP Digital is redefining ERP automation with agentic AI, spun out of ETH Zurich and HSG. They build AI agents that automate finance, procurement, logistics, sales, and more for some of the world's largest enterprises.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're embedded directly in customers' environments, taking a messy enterprise problem from first conversation to a working production system in days. You work as part of a small senior team and own the technical solution end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Sit with end-users, process owners, and client engineers to understand the real workflow
• Translate the target-state process into a concrete technical solution: architecture, data model, integrations, agent and workflow design
• Build full-stack: TypeScript backend, React frontend where needed, integrations, LLM orchestration, evals
• Demo early and often. Put working software in front of real users and fold their feedback into the next iteration
• Make speed / quality / cost trade-offs in real time
• Own observability and evals once live. Iterate until the system is reliable in the customer's real conditions
• Earn trust with the client's own engineering and security teams
• Bring patterns back - reusable components, prompt structures, integration approaches - so the next engagement ships faster

Requirements

• Builder background with real shipping experience
• Fluent with modern AI tooling: LLM APIs, tool and function calling, agent frameworks, evals, prompt engineering
• Strong with TypeScript on the backend and React (or equivalent) on the frontend. Comfortable with APIs, auth, queues, and integrating with legacy systems
• Daily, fluent use of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar
• Customer-facing instinct
• You move fast, communicate clearly, and operate well with ambiguity
• Fluency in English. German is a plus
• Bonus: experience automating business processes in the ERP space, or prior background in consulting, solutions engineering, or founding/building products end-to-end

Benefits

• Solve real problems, fast.
• Work at the frontier.
• Build with the best tools. No legacy stack to drag around.
• Big responsibility, fast.
• Opportunities to grow.
• Exceptional colleagues.