Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Airweave — Amsterdam, North Holland, NL
- Company: Airweave
- Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, NL
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 80000–100000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We're looking for a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with our most important customers, including one of the world's leading AI labs, and make Airweave work in their environments.
This is not a support role. Forward deployed means you're the bridge between what we've built and what customers actually need. You'll be embedded with enterprise teams, understanding their infrastructure, data sources, and constraints. You'll solve problems that turn into product features.
You'll spend time on-site with enterprises, ship code that solves their specific problems, and make sure Airweave delivers in environments we've never seen. The work spans Kubernetes, Python, PostgreSQL, and LLM infrastructure, but the real skill is figuring out how it all fits together somewhere new.
This is crucial early-stage work. Your work will directly determine how we land and expand in enterprise.
What you'll work on
Deploy and integrate Airweave into enterprise environments: on-prem, hybrid cloud, air-gapped networks
Build custom connectors and integrations for customer-specific data sources and workflows
Debug production issues in real time, often on customer infrastructure
Work directly with technical teams at customers, including to understand their requirements and constraints
Translate customer feedback into product improvements; you'll have a direct line to engineering
Own the technical relationship with key accounts from proof-of-concept through production
Build the playbooks and tooling that define how Airweave lands in enterprise
Always free to contribute directly to the Airweave product based on what you learn in the field
Travel to customer sites across Europe as needed
You might be a fit if
You're comfortable working directly with customers and can communicate technical concepts clearly at the whiteboard
You've deployed software in enterprise environments and understand the realities (security reviews, network constraints, compliance)
You're a strong generalist: comfortable with Python, infrastructure, databases, and whatever else the problem requires
You thrive in ambiguity and can figure things out without a playbook
You can debug distributed systems under moderate pressure: logs, traces, intuition and teamwork
You're willing to travel and work on-site with customers when needed
Bonus points:
Experience with data/LLM infrastructure deployments
Background in solutions engineering, technical leadership, or customer-facing technical roles
Familiarity with enterprise security requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, on-prem deployments)
French, German or Dutch language skills
What we offer
Customers including one of the world's leading AI labs
Competitive salary (€80K–€100K) with meaningful equity (0.25%–0.75%)
Work in-person in the heart of Amsterdam (Herengracht) with a highly-skilled, technical team
Direct line to product and engineering: your insights shape what we build