Forward Deployed Engineer - Internship (f/m/d) at Manex AI GmbH (Munich, Germany)
Manex AI GmbH· Munich, Germany·
Role details
Real Ownership From Day One · Fast-Track Into A Full-Time Forward Deployed Engineer Role · Direct Mentorship From Senior Engineers · Direct Access To Founders · Hands-On Experience With Real Customers And Production Systems
Summary
Forward Deployed Engineer Intern working at the core of customer delivery, building software and AI applications on the Kosmos platform for live manufacturing projects. This role offers real ownership, mentorship, and a fast-track path to a full-time position.
Job description
Forward Deployed Engineer - Internship (f/m/d)
About Us
Manex AI is on a mission to enable autonomy for the world's leading organizations, currently building the production system for the era of autonomous manufacturing. With our Seed Round raised from Lightspeed and BlueYard and leading manufacturing enterprises relying on our systems, we are now focused on scaling operations across all departments. For our world-class team, we are looking for experts and talent that is ambitious enough to tackle some of the world’s most pressing and complex problems.
Your Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer Intern, you work at the core of our customer delivery, alongside our engineers who are embedded in the production environments of our industry-leading customers. You build software and AI applications on our platform "Kosmos" that ship into live customer projects. From your first week, you own real problems and see how your technical decisions create measurable impact for some of the most demanding manufacturers in the world. For interns who deliver, this is the fastest path into a full-time Forward Deployed Engineer role.
Your Responsibilities
- Build software and AI application features within real customer projects
- Work alongside senior engineers to troubleshoot, document, and ship solutions
- Support the technical integration of our platform into customer environments
- Turn concrete customer requirements into working technical solutions
- Learn how production processes, IT infrastructure, and AI products come together
Your Profile
- Currently studying Computer Science, Information Systems or similar in your Masters or towards the end of your Bachelor's
- Strong hands-on coding ability, proven through your own projects, ventures, or open-source work
- An agentic mindset: you take initiative, move fast, and finish what you start
- Ideally strong experience in Python, TypeScript and Docker
- Fluent in English and ideally in German as well
- Based in Munich or willing to relocate for the duration of the internship
If you don't tick all the boxes, we would appreciate your application as well.
What We Offer
- Real ownership from day one
- A fast-track into a full-time Forward Deployed Engineer role
- Direct mentorship from senior engineers and direct access to founders
- Hands-on experience onsite with real customers, real production systems, and frontier applied AI
- A fast-paced environment backed by the world's best investors, with the world's leading organizations as customers
Want to build real things at the edge of industrial AI? Apply now.
Why work at Manex AI GmbH
- Engineering culture: "Best-in-class engineering team" with a strong technology focus — the company is building at the frontier of industrial AI and autonomous systems
- Impact-oriented: Values "Impact instead of tasks" — the mission is to move engineers off repetitive work onto high-value problems
- Work environment: In-office at Munich HQ (Am Kartoffelgarten 14, 81671 München) — "Employees work from physical offices" (Built In)
- Growth trajectory: Seed-stage with top-tier VC backing (Lightspeed, BlueYard) and enterprise logos already onboard — early employee opportunity
- Notable: Receives 1,000+ applications per role, suggesting strong interest; company advises candidates to "make clear why you want to work with us" to stand out
- Values: Impact Orientation, Technology Focus, Autonomy as an operating model