Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d)
About this role
⭐️ Your Impact:The European trades are one of the least digitised industries left. Software
penetration sits under 15%, against roughly 70% in the US. The labour
productivity gap runs about 30%. Millions of skilled people spend their evenings
on paperwork instead of the craft they trained for — in the industry that has to
deliver the energy transition.
There is almost no incumbent software to displace. That is unusual, and it won't
last.
smalt replaces the back office entirely rather than selling Meister another tool
to manage. In the last six months that went from a partner app and a dashboard
to around thirty AI agents in production - pricing real jobs, qualifying real
leads, running the operations of businesses whose payroll depends on it working.
These days building thirty agents is easy. Knowing which thirty is what's challenging.
That only comes from being in the Betrieb and talking to the Handwerker.
That's what this role is for.
Responsibilities
- You'll sit in Handwerksbetrieben - at the Meister's desk, in the van, on site, next to our team -
- and watch how the work actually happens. Then you'll come back and build the
- thing that fixes it, often multiple times on the same day.
- Spend real time with partners. Not a quarterly customer call. You'll know
- our Meister by name, understand their P&L, and notice the thing they've
- stopped complaining about because they assume it can't be fixed.
- Build across the stack. Python/FastAPI services, Vue interfaces, Flutter
- screens, agent loops, data pipelines - whatever the problem needs.
- Own agents in production. Not demos. Agents that price real jobs, answer
- real customers, and cost real money when they're wrong. Reliability,
- evaluation, structured output, graceful failure.
- Decide what to build.</st