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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at BLP Digital AG'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at BLP Digital AG

- **Company:** BLP Digital AG
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blp-digital/95e7e3a9-8f14-428b-9d66-afa5d36c8d43/application

**Skills:** TypeScript, React, LLM APIs, AI Tooling, Claude Code, Cursor, API Design, Authentication, Queues, Legacy System Integration, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, NetSuite, German

> The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly into customer environments to translate complex business problems into working production systems using AI-driven ERP automation. This role involves full-stack development with TypeScript and React, rapid prototyping, and close collaboration with client engineering teams...

## Job description

Join BLP Digital — The #1 Solution for ERP Automation

BLP Digital is redefining ERP automation with agentic AI. Spun out of ETH Zurich and HSG, we build AI agents that automate finance, procurement, logistics, sales, and more for some of the world's largest enterprises. We solve real enterprise problems with cutting-edge technology and a strong sense of ownership.

Our solution is live in 40+ countries, used by 550+ customers, and automates 70,000+ processes every day, including for Fortune 500 companies. As one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scaleups, our success stems from deep expertise in technology and business processes, delivering a product with outstanding product-market fit, proven by a growing global customer base.

We've recently welcomed Goldman Sachs Alternatives as a growth investor, and we're now expanding into the UK with the launch of our London office. We are just getting started. Ready to build the future? Join BLP Digital today.

## About the position

We're looking for the top 1% - engineers who treat their craft like athletes treat performance, and who want to work alongside people who do the same. The world has changed dramatically in the last quarter. What used to take a team of consultants six months now takes a sharp engineer a few days. The momentum is unreal, and we're growing into it fast.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're embedded directly in our customers' environments, taking a messy enterprise problem from first conversation to a working production system in days - not quarters. You work as part of a small senior team - alongside a Senior Consultant and other FDEs - and you own the technical solution end-to-end: architecture, integrations, agent and workflow logic, frontend where needed, evals, deployment. The work starts and ends with the customer, not the codebase. Feedback cycles are measured in hours, the bar is high, and the people you ship with will push you to raise it.

## Key Responsibilities

- Sit with end-users, process owners, and client engineers to understand the real workflow - and the real problem underneath the stated one
- Translate the target-state process into a concrete technical solution: architecture, data model, integrations, agent and workflow design - and ship it in days and weeks, not quarters
- Demo early and often. Put working software in front of real users and fold their feedback into the next iteration
- Make speed / quality / cost trade-offs in real time. Choose build vs. buy vs. configure existing platform capability
- Own observability and evals once live. Iterate until the system is reliable in the customer's real conditions
- Earn trust with the client's own engineering and security teams - API access, data flows, deployment, reviews
- Bring patterns back - reusable components, prompt structures, integration approaches - so the next engagement ships faster

## Requirements

- Builder background with real shipping experience - you've taken systems from zero to production and kept them running
- Fluent with modern AI tooling: LLM APIs, tool and function calling, agent frameworks, evals, prompt engineering as a real discipline
- Strong with TypeScript on the backend. Comfortable with APIs, auth, queues, and integrating with legacy systems
- Daily, fluent use of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar - expected to ship meaningfully faster than a traditional engineer because of them
- Customer-facing instinct - you genuinely enjoy being in the room with users, asking sharp questions, and pushing back respectfully when needed
- You move fast, communicate clearly, and operate well with ambiguity. Comfortable being dropped into an unfamiliar domain and coming back with a working prototype
- Fluency in English. German is a plus
- MUST: experience automating business processes in the ERP space (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, NetSuite, or similar), or prior background in consulting, solutions engineering, or founding/building products end-to-end

## Benefits

- Solve real problems, fast. Join a high-growth deep-tech startup tackling real-world challenges for global industry leaders.
- Work at the frontier. We use and build with state-of-the-art tech - the latest LLMs, agent frameworks, and AI coding tools, with the budget and mandate to keep up as the field moves.
- Build with the best tools. No legacy stack to drag around.
- Big responsibility, fast. You own customer engagements end-to-end from day one - architecture, build, delivery, and the relationship.
- Opportunities to grow. You're controlling your personal development and career trajectory in a rapidly growing, internationally expanding startup.
- Exceptional colleagues. You'll be growing alongside individuals from exceptional academic backgrounds and careers.

## About BLP Digital AG

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BLP Digital AG provides an agentic AI platform that automates complex, exception-heavy business processes across finance, procurement, logistics, and sales for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; Goldman Sachs Alternatives joined as partner/investor in 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland, with a growing team across Europe and a new London hub opened in 2026
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Tim Beck (CEO) and Sven Beck (CTO), together with co-founders Sabrina Schenardi (Head of Strategic Engagement) and Thore Harmuth (Chief Commercial Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-driven enterprise process automation (agentic AI for core business workflows)
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises (450+ customers in 40+ countries)
- **Mission/purpose**: “A world without wasted hours” – to help businesses automate complex workflows, reduce manual effort, and give people time back for work that matters

## Products & Services
- **BLP Agentic AI Platform**: A system-of-action that breaks each business process into discrete tasks, assigns specialized AI agents (300+ pre-built and pre-trained), and orchestrates end-to-end execution across finance, procurement, logistics, and sales. Integrates with 30+ ERP systems. Features include audit-ready governance, exception handling, and real-time orchestration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; notable investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives in 2026. Also previously raised from SICTIC and other investors.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs Alternatives, SICTIC; also recognized by FT1000 as Europe’s fastest-growing companies (#42 in 2026)
- **Growth Signals**: 450+ enterprise customers, 21M+ exceptions handled daily, 123M+ total processes automated, headcount of 150+ people (with 169 active job postings on LinkedIn as of mid-2026, showing 207% quarterly growth in job postings), new London hub opened, and strong customer traction across industries

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep roots in ERP (family business with 30+ years of operational expertise) combined with AI research from ETH Zurich and University of St. Gallen
- Pre-built, pre-trained agents tailored to specific tasks – reducing time-to-value vs. general-purpose AI platforms
- Orchestration layer that never drops exceptions – handles cross-system, cross-team workflows with full audit trails
- Audit-ready by design – every action is governed and visible, critical for regulated enterprise processes

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the platform globally, with a new hub in London to tap into one of the world’s leading business hubs
- Expanding across finance, procurement, logistics, and sales workflows – starting with high-impact use cases and expanding from there
- Continuing to invest in pre-built agents and integrations to accelerate deployment
- Building on the momentum of the 2026 investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives to grow the team and product

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High standards, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Emphasizes trust, transparency, and giving people room to take initiative.
- **Growth**: Rapid headcount growth (150+ people, with aggressive hiring across engineering, sales, and GTM roles). “Your development isn’t measured in months but in milestones.”
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid/remote-friendly. Stay connected through Slack, daily standups, and regular in-person office visits. Offices in Zurich and London.
- **Perks**: Equity incentives (company shares or variable compensation in cash/equity), team events (tennis, movie nights, yoga, board games), and a strong learning culture.
- **Engineering**: Strong focus on backend and forward deployed engineering roles; open to shaping the product as the company scales.

## Sources
1. [blp.digital/company](https://blp.digital/company)
2. [blp.digital/careers](https://blp.digital/careers)
3. [blp.digital/](https://blp.digital/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/blp-digital](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blp-digital)
5. [linkedin.com/company/blp-digital](https://ch.linkedin.com/company/blp-digital)

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