Forward Deployed Engineer
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About the Position
Forward Deployed Engineer
About the Company
Kuro Technology is at the forefront of building the AI foundation for the construction industry. Founded by Lea and Jonas, who previously scaled two of Europe's leading construction tech companies, Kuro aims to reimagine how construction professionals work by leveraging AI to automate workflows and make core data accessible. With an €10 million seed round and a rapidly growing user base, Kuro is on a mission to revolutionize the industry.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Product & Engineering
About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Kuro Technology, you will own new AI automation use cases end-to-end. This role is ideal for a talented software engineer or data scientist who is eager to take ownership, work directly with customers, and build impactful solutions. You will be part of a small, ambitious team based in Berlin, shaping the technical direction of both the product and the company.
Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped, buildable solutions and ship them.
- Build with modern applied AI (LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, embeddings, heuristics) to solve high-impact problems.
- Design data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration.
- Identify recurring patterns across projects and codify them into reusable templates.
- Balance speed, accuracy, and pragmatism, knowing when to keep a human in the loop.
- Help shape the technical direction of both the product and the company.
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of experience as a software engineer or data scientist.
- Comfortable owning problems end-to-end.
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Pragmatic and biased toward action.
- Enjoy working directly with customers and visiting them on site.
- Excited about applied AI, not just theory.
- Can clearly explain trade-offs and decisions.
- At least able to speak C1 German.
Bonus Points
- Experience in early-stage startups or founding teams.
- Prior experience with customer-facing roles.
- Experience with unstructured data and ontologies.
Current Tech Stack
- Web-App: Typescript
- Database / Vector DB and File Storage: AWS RDS / Trubopuffer / AWS S3
- Backend: Fastify API + Prisma ORM
- Workflow Orchestrator: Prefect (Python)
- Hosting: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AI: Azure / OpenAI, Gemini, Cohere, AWS
- Observation, Evaluation & Tracking: Langfuse, Datadog
Why Kuro
Join Kuro at a pivotal moment. The product is live, customers are paying, and their journey with Kuro is just beginning. This is your chance to join extremely early and help build one of Kuro's core functions, guiding enterprise users through this platform shift. There is no playbook, the world is changing at an unprecedented speed, and you can shape how one of the most critical industries around the globe wins in this new era.
The Process
- Intro Call - Intro, Logistics & Fit with Lea (30min)
- Second Call - Get to know Product and Tech at Kuro with Jonas (30min)
- Technical Challenge - time boxed home assignment (~5 hours)
- Challenge Review (45min)
- On-site Day
- Culture Interview (30 Min)
- Meet several team members
- Go for lunch or dinner
- Decision
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Full-time position
- On-site work in Berlin
- Opportunity to shape the future of AI in construction
- Join a small, ambitious team of technical ex-founders and builders
Join Us
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