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title: 'AI Product Engineer at forgent.ai'
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# AI Product Engineer at forgent.ai

- **Company:** forgent.ai
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-06-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/forgent-ai/am9icG9zdDot21q0TdFVfi58mwcrmfvz

## Job description

Intro Forgent AI is on a mission to build AI products for better public procurement. We are looking for a talented Product Engineer to join our founding technical team in Berlin. You'll play a crucial role in shaping our product and technology and building reliable, impactful software for a domain where it truly matters.

## The role

As a Product Engineer at Forgent AI, you'll translate complex user needs within the public procurement sector into robust, user-facing AI applications. This is a unique opportunity to join an early-stage, mission-driven company and significantly influence its trajectory. You will work in an environment with unique technical constraints, applying state-of-the-art AI and full-stack techniques in novel ways to deliver frictionless, reliable user experiences. Working closely with founders and early users, you'll have substantial ownership, driving product features from concept to deployment and helping define our engineering culture.

The day-to-day

- Design, build, and iterate on full-stack features using our tech stack (Frontend: Vite, Typescript, React, and Tailwind; Backend: Python with FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy; Infra: AWS), integrating LLMs to solve core user problems while optimizing for performance, reliability, and security.
- Work closely with founders and customers to deeply understand user challenges and ensure our product effectively addresses their needs.
- Take full ownership of features from design through deployment and iteration, including contributing to stack maintenance, improving reliability, scalability, and managing/removing technical debt.
- Actively collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, design discussions, knowledge sharing, and presenting your work in demos to foster learning and gather feedback.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvements – whether in the product, technical stack, or team processes – and take initiative to address them.

You should apply if you

- Are a skilled full-stack engineer with 3+ years of professional experience writing maintainable code and familiarity with common API patterns (e.g., REST). Note: We always make exceptions to this rule for exceptional engineering talent!
- Have demonstrated that you can successfully translate complex ideas into working prototypes and shipping robust, real-world applications, particularly in secure or data-intensive domains.
- Are an excellent communicator (written and verbal English) who thrives on deep collaboration, including code reviews and asynchronous design discussions.
- Are a hard worker with a strong sense of urgency, who thrives in a fast-moving, high-responsibility environment where direct communication is the norm and speed matters as much as quality.
- Are motivated by ownership, love to work in a fast-paced early-stage startup environment, are genuinely excited by our mission, and actively seek to improve yourself, your colleagues, and the team culture.
- Have impressive achievements from previous careers and from side projects — we’re excited to hear about these!

## Nice to have

- Practical experience building applications leveraging LLMs (e.g., using frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex) and with prompt engineering.
- Experience with evals for LLM applications.
- Experience with, or a strong interest in, UX/UI design principles.
- Previous experience founding a company or working in an early-stage startup.
- Good understanding of German (as the initial product is in German).

## About forgent.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Forgent builds AI agents that help companies find, win, and deliver public and private tenders, automating the most time-consuming parts of the bidding process.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised a pre-seed round of $5.1M led by Cherry Ventures and a subsequent seed round of €4.3M)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Erik Heinelt (CEO), Dr. Leonard Wossnig (CTO), Dr. Timo Kuschma (CPO) [forgent.ai](https://www.forgent.ai/company/about)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Public procurement / tender management software
- **Target customers**: B2B – companies and organizations that bid on public-sector contracts (e.g., infrastructure, defense, healthcare) as well as private tenders.
- **Mission statement**: “Fix public procurement – a €2 trillion market that decides what actually gets built – by building AI agents that make the process faster, more transparent, and more accessible.” [forgent.ai](https://www.forgent.ai/company/about)

## Products & Services
- **Forgent AI Agent Platform**: A SaaS platform that uses AI agents to automate tender discovery, bid preparation, proposal drafting, and submission. The platform is domain-aware and built for high-stakes environments where precision and transparency are critical. [forgent.ai](https://www.forgent.ai/company/about)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total disclosed funding of approximately $9.8M (pre-seed $5.1M + seed €4.3M) as of late 2025; headcount of 19 employees (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/forgent-ai) [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forgentai/__tuwGvH4wjFrOAl84sEGZ4e_Iw1k-MtT5LVop-Ad_lQY)
- **Notable Investors**: Cherry Ventures (lead in pre-seed); additional investors in seed round (names not disclosed) [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forgentai/__tuwGvH4wjFrOAl84sEGZ4e_Iw1k-MtT5LVop-Ad_lQY)
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded coverage to EU-wide tenders in July 2026; actively hiring across engineering, product, sales, and operations; team includes former leaders from Zalando, Tecton/Databricks, McKinsey, Salesforce, and LinkedIn. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/forgent-ai) [forgent.ai](https://www.forgent.ai/company/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain‑specific AI**: Agents are built specifically for the procurement domain, integrating deep knowledge of tender processes and compliance requirements.
- **High‑stakes reliability**: The platform is designed for environments where trust and accuracy are non‑negotiable (public contracts, legal frameworks).
- **Founding team depth**: Co-founders bring experience from AI research (Google PhD Fellow), startup exits (askCharlie, Rahko), and top-tier consulting/tech (McKinsey, Tecton, Zalando). [forgent.ai](https://www.forgent.ai/company/about)

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Extending tender coverage across the European Union.
- **Product depth**: Improving AI agent capabilities for end‑to‑end bid management, from discovery to delivery.
- **Talent acquisition**: Building a strong founding team in Berlin, with open roles in engineering, product, sales, and operations. [forgent.ai](https://www.forgent.ai/company/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven impact**: Directly influence how public money is spent on critical infrastructure and services.
- **Early‑stage ownership**: Engineers and product managers take full ownership of features from concept to deployment, working closely with founders and users. [gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/forgent-ai/am9icG9zdDot21q0TdFVfi58mwcrmfvz)
- **Tech stack**: Modern stack – Vite, TypeScript, React, Tailwind (frontend); Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy (backend); AWS infrastructure; heavy use of LLMs and AI frameworks (LangChain/LlamaIndex).
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced, collaborative, with a strong sense of urgency; direct communication and a bias for action.
- **Work model**: Likely office‑first in Berlin (all open roles list Berlin as location); remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated.
- **Team background**: Colleagues from Amazon Web Services, Morphic, United Nations, McKinsey, and other top organisations. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/forgent-ai)

## Sources
1. [forgent.ai – About page](https://www.forgent.ai/company/about)
2. [forgent.ai – Careers page](https://www.forgent.ai/company/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Forgent AI company page](https://linkedin.com/company/forgent-ai)
4. [Tracxn – Forgent AI profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forgentai/__tuwGvH4wjFrOAl84sEGZ4e_Iw1k-MtT5LVop-Ad_lQY)
5. [Gem – AI Product Engineer job posting](https://jobs.gem.com/forgent-ai/am9icG9zdDot21q0TdFVfi58mwcrmfvz)

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