Forward Deployed Engineer | Tekkr FDE Network
Tekkr · Berlin
What this role requires
2 requirements, read out of the advert rather than guessed from the job title:
Also mentioned, not required: APIs, databases, cloud platforms, English. Worth having, but their absence is not what gets a CV filtered out.
Free, no card. Tells you which of them your CV evidences and which it only implies.
Job description
Join the Tekkr FDE Network, where Europe's top Forward Deployed Engineers meet the top 1% of AI startups, like Parloa and Zauber.
This isn't a job at a single company. You join a curated network that matches FDEs with Europe's best AI startups: startups that sell to enterprises and have real customer deployments in progress. Once you pass our assessments, you get a head start in the application process with our partner startups.
Find out more about the Tekkr FDE Network: https://www.tekkr.io/fde-network
What you get as a member
A head start in the hiring process at our partner startups, which receive your assessment score and reviewer notes
Support on hiring process at top AI companies
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All of it is free for you. Startups pay a fee only when they hire.
What FDEs do at our partner startups
Own a deployment end to end, from scoping to go-live
Run discovery: gather requirements and turn business needs into technical requirements
Work directly with the customer's engineers
Write production code, build integrations with enterprise systems (CRM, ERP, ticketing, transport management, data systems) and design the solution architecture
Explain technical topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives
Feed learnings from the field back into product, and build reusable patterns, tools and playbooks from individual deployments
What we look for
Engineering: you ship production-quality code fast, work with APIs, databases and cloud platforms, and debug production issues under time pressure. Typical languages: Python, TypeScript.
Customer judgment: you turn a vague request into a scoped problem, and you know when to say no
Communication: you explain technical trade-offs clearly, in writing and live
Ownership: you have a track record of driving outcomes end to end, not just contributing, and you operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Track record: outlier achievements, such as shipped products or top performance anywhere
Nice to have
Hands-on experience building with LLMs or AI agents (retrieval, evals, prompt engineering, tool use)
A product background
What the process looks like
1. Apply: fill in our application form
2. Screening: get invited to a screening with our senior FDE experts or our AI evaluator.
3. Fast-tracked interviews: if you're in, you get support and fast-tracked access to the interview processes at our partner startups. Each startup runs its own hiring process.
4. Not hired? You're still part of the network. You can get fast-tracked access again, or support to improve your odds.
What you should know
Every applicant goes through our assessments. Only the top 1% of applicants join the Tekkr FDE Network
Contract details, such as: probation period, start date and annual leave may vary depending on the role we decide fits you best. These details will be given to you later on
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