Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
deepset · Berlin
Infrastructureremotemanager
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead FDE team delivering AI Platform into enterprise production environments.
- Own team health and delivery across four FDE engagement profiles.
- Turn field insight into reusable patterns that reduce custom work.
What they offer
- Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice
- 30 days vacation + extra days for family sick leave
- Competitive salary & stock options for every team member
- Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva
- Annual learning & development budget
- Monthly team socials & in-person meetups
Ideal candidate
A coaching-oriented engineering leader with enterprise delivery experience who thrives close to customers and builds high-trust, remote-first teams. You care about shipping AI into production and turning field lessons into repeatable success.
Requirements
- Experience leading customer-facing engineering, professional services, or delivery teams in enterprise software, AI, or infrastructure
- Proven coaching ability to develop engineers and build high-trust teams
- Technical depth to hold the bar across RAG pipelines, cloud and self-hosted deployments, APIs, integrations, and IAM/security
- Commercial awareness of how scope, staffing, and execution affect utilization, revenue, and margin
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and executive audiences
- Comfort with ambiguity in a remote-first, async-heavy setup
- remote policy
- remote-first
Lab profile
About deepset
Builds sovereign enterprise AI platform and open-source Haystack framework for custom agents.
What they build
- Haystack
- deepset AI Platform
Known for
- Sovereign AI
- Custom enterprise AI solutions
- Scalable agent execution with observability
Key facts
- Founded in 2018
- Headquartered in Berlin
- Series B company
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