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title: 'Automation Engineer at fonio'
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# Automation Engineer at fonio

- **Company:** fonio
- **Location:** Vienna, Austria
- **Compensation:** €70k–€95k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fonio/70c04e87-4e00-4887-b897-f2cb4f126bd2

## Job description

Über fonio Wir sind in weniger als 12 Monaten von 1 Mio. auf 10 Mio. US Dollar ARR gewachsen und haben bereits jetzt über 10.000 Kunden. Fonio ist der europäische Marktführer für KI-Sprachagenten für SMBs. Nun expandieren wir weltweit und in neue Produktbereiche. Wir agieren schnell, glauben an ein hohes Maß an Ownership, leben direktes Feedback und verzichten auf Company-Politics und unnötige Meetings. Werde Teil einer der krassesten Wachstumsstories in Europa.

Deine Rolle Als Automation Engineer / Internal Services Engineer entwickelst du interne Tools, Automatisierungen und Prozesse, die unser gesamtes Team schneller und effizienter machen. Du baust die Infrastruktur hinter unseren Operations – von AI-gestützten Workflows bis hin zu internen Plattformen, die täglich von Support, Sales, CS und Ops genutzt werden. Du bist kein Tooling-Admin. Du bist Software Engineer mit dem Mindset, dass jede repetitive Aufgabe ein Bug ist, den du fixen kannst.

Deine Aufgaben

- Entwicklung interner Tools und Services mit n8n, HubSpot und eigenen Services in Code
- Automatisierung manueller Prozesse mit AI, APIs und modernen SaaS-Tools
- Aufbau interner Plattformen für Support, Operations, Sales und Customer Success
- Analyse interner Abläufe und Identifikation von Bottlenecks & Automatisierungspotenzial
- Enge Zusammenarbeit mit allen Teams, um repetitive Arbeit zu eliminieren
- Eigene Agents bauen und für den DACH-Kontext optimieren

Das bringst du mit

- Software-Engineering-Background: du schreibst Code, liest APIs, verstehst Datenmodelle und debuggst Probleme
- Viel Erfahrung mit n8n und anderen Automatisierungstools – du weißt, wann n8n die richtige Wahl ist und wann du besser einen kleinen Service in Code schreibst
- Erfahrung mit APIs, Integrationen und Workflow-Automatisierung
- Starkes Verständnis für pragmatische Softwareentwicklung & schnelle Iteration
- AI-first: Claude Code, Cursor, Agents, LLM-APIs sind Teil deines Toolkits – oder du brennst darauf, es so zu machen
- Hohe Eigenverantwortung und Hands-on Mentalität
- Extremes Growth Mindset
- Deutsch als Muttersprache (DACH Fokus – du wirst hier auch eigene Agents optimieren) + gutes Englisch

Das erwartet dich

- Volle Ownership über die interne Infrastruktur – du baust sie auf, du entscheidest
- Direkter Impact: du arbeitest mit allen Teams und siehst täglich, was du bewegst
- 100% Focus Time – keine regulären Meetings
- Extremer Speed – wir shippen fast täglich
- Kurze Entscheidungswege, hohes Tempo, echte Eigenverantwortung

Das bieten wir dir

- 70.000–95.000 € Brutto-Jahresgehalt (abhängig von Erfahrung) + Equity
- 100% Remote: Falls du aber Lust auf Office hast, haben wir eines der coolsten Offices im 7. Bezirk in Wien (Lunch & Dinner included)
- Top-Equipment & Zugang zu den neuesten AI-Tools
- Unlimited Budget, wenn der ROI stimmt
- Direkte Zusammenarbeit mit den Gründern und einem starken Team

Bewerbungsprozess

- 15 min Kennenlernen
- 30 min Deep Dive mit CTO & Co-Founder Matthias
- 90 min Technical Interview mit Case Study
- 20 min Culture Fit mit den Gründern

## About fonio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: fonio is a European AI platform that provides AI phone assistants and omnichannel customer communication solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Vienna, Austria
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Daniel Keinrath (CEO) and Matthias Gruber (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered customer communication / Telecommunications
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with high volumes of customer calls
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To ensure no lead, customer, or opportunity is missed by providing 24/7 AI-powered communication across phone, WhatsApp, email, and chat.

## Products & Services
- **AI Phone Assistant**: An AI agent that handles inbound and outbound calls, capable of scheduling appointments, answering inquiries, processing orders, and transcribing conversations. It features speech recognition for difficult dialects, turn-detection for natural conversation flow, and real-time emotion recognition. It can be set up in under 10 minutes with no coding required.
- **Omnichannel Platform**: Expanding beyond voice to include WhatsApp (already live), with email and chatbot support to follow. The platform integrates with CRMs, calendar tools, and databases via native integrations and APIs.
- **Proprietary Calendar**: An AI-native calendar tool that is already live as part of the platform.
- **Proprietary CRM**: A CRM purpose-built for AI-driven customer interactions, expected to launch by the end of Q3 2026.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $140 million valuation (as of June 2026, per seed round)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $20 million, including a $17 million seed round led by 20VC (June 2026) and a €3 million angel round (December 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 20VC (lead), with participation from founders and executives of Synthesia, HubSpot, and Revolut. Previous angel investors include early backers of Facebook and Airbnb.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Over 7,000 customers across nine markets (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Poland, Brazil, UK, USA)
    - Automates over 2 million calls per month
    - Growing at roughly 40% month-over-month
    - Acquired competitor fluently in September 2025
    - Added $1 million in ARR in April 2026 alone, targeting a 5x increase by year-end
    - Opening offices in New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, and Barcelona

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary European Infrastructure**: Develops its own orchestration layer and models (speech recognition, turn-detection, emotion recognition), ensuring all data remains in the EU on servers in Nuremberg, Germany. This differentiates them from competitors who white-label US services.
- **High End-to-End Resolution Rate**: In roughly 90% of cases, the AI agent conducts a fully human-like conversation and resolves the inquiry without needing to route it to a human.
- **Builder-Heavy Team**: Over half the team are former founders, operations leaders, or people who have scaled products at companies like Canva.

## Strategic Focus
- **Omnichannel Expansion**: Moving beyond voice to become a full omnichannel platform (WhatsApp, email, chat).
- **International Expansion**: Establishing physical offices in key markets (New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, Barcelona) after recent launches in the UK and US.
- **Building an AI-Native Tool Ecosystem**: Developing a proprietary calendar and CRM to create a complete, integrated platform for customer communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Rapid Growth & Impact**: The company is in a phase of hypergrowth (40% MoM), and employees are "still early enough that your work will genuinely shape the culture, the product, and the company." [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers)
- **Culture**: Described as fast, committed, and in-office by default. The team emphasizes moving fast and having fun. Most roles are Vienna-based, with the expectation of being in the office most days.
- **Remote Options**: Engineering roles are fully remote (within ±3 hours of CET). For other roles, there is a temporary relocation to Vienna for onboarding (1-3 months), followed by relocation to the target market.
- **Relocation Support**: The company sponsors travel and accommodation in Vienna for the onboarding period and offers full relocation support for moving to target markets.
- **Team Size**: Around 40-50 people, with plans to double by the end of the year.
- **Hiring Process**: A 3-4 step process: 15-minute intro call, 30-45 minute skills interview (sometimes with a case study), potentially a deeper skills or leadership interview, and a final 20-minute culture call with both founders. [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers)

## Sources
1. [fonio.ai - Product Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en)
2. [fonio.ai - Careers Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers)
3. [fonio.ai - Press Section](https://www.fonio.ai/en/press)
4. [fonio.ai - Seed Funding Press Release](https://www.fonio.ai/en/news-cool-stuff/pr-14mio-seed-funding-20vc)
5. [LinkedIn - fonio.ai](https://at.linkedin.com/company/fonio-ai)

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