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# Forward Deployed Engineer - Internship (f/m/d) at Manex AI GmbH

- **Company:** Manex AI GmbH
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/manex/0cf83eab-9f9c-460c-8a40-711c343cfbaf/application

**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Docker, German language

> 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.

## About Manex AI GmbH

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Manex AI is a Munich-based startup building an Autonomous Enterprise AI Platform (Kosmos) with three manufacturing suites (Blackbelt, Takt, Gemba) to enable autonomous factories for leading industrial organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Nathan Gruber (CEO), Dr. Andreas Schoch (MD), Fabian Gruber (CPTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Industrial AI, Manufacturing Optimization, Quality Management
- **Target customers**: Enterprise manufacturing organizations (B2B), including automotive OEMs and suppliers (BMW, Audi, BSH, Stellantis, TDK, Henkel, Resrg Automotive)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Enable autonomous factories powered by AI"

## Products & Services
- **Kosmos (Autonomous Enterprise AI Platform)**: The foundational platform that models business domains and lets agents, workflows, and applications act on them like domain experts. Deployable cloud, on-premise, or any environment with no data lock-in.
- **Blackbelt (Quality Suite)**: AI-powered quality management that predicts defects, catches issues at the source, and reduces scrap, rework, and warranty exposure. Customers report 70%+ reduction in test capacities and 20% increase in defect detection rates.
- **Takt (Execution Suite)**: Production execution and process steering optimization.
- **Gemba (Shopfloor Suite)**: Real-time shopfloor visibility and operations management.
- **Horizon (Distribution Platform)**: Enables solutions built at one site to be instantly available across all sites, compounding local innovation into a single growing system.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Seed-stage private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $9.12M raised in 1 round (Seed round on June 4, 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, BlueYard (institutional investors), plus 9 angel investors. Customers include BMW, Audi, BSH, Stellantis, TDK, Henkel, Resrg Automotive.
- **Growth Signals**: 23 total employees (as of mid-2026); 31 employees as of March 31, 2026 (Tracxn); receiving 1,000+ applications per role (indicating strong employer brand); already deployed with multiple global industry leaders; certified ISO 27001 and TISAX.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven enterprise traction**: Already deployed on production lines with automotive giants like BMW, Audi, and Stellantis — lines "that can't stop."
- **Verified impact**: Delivers measurable results: 3-5x productivity improvements, 20-35% reduction in response time, 10-15% output increase, 10-30% reduction in time-to-market, 10-15% reduction in cost of non-conformance.
- **Data sovereignty and compliance**: Built for European GDPR compliance, ISO 27001 and TISAX certified. "Made in Europe under the strictest regulations written for AI in critical industry."
- **No hardware required**: Software-only solution that integrates with existing systems and robotics via industry-standard integrations.
- **Flexible deployment**: Cloud, on-premise, or any environment — data stays where customers want it.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the autonomous factory vision by compounding local innovation across customer sites via the Horizon distribution platform
- Deepening AI agent capabilities on the Kosmos platform to connect siloed production data and replace fragmented point solutions
- Expanding customer base among leading manufacturing organizations while maintaining sovereign-by-default data practices
- Building out engineering and customer impact teams to support rapid deployment and product evolution

## Why Work Here
- **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

## Sources
1. [manex.ai](https://manex.ai/en)
2. [manex.ai/jobs](https://www.manex.ai/en/jobs)
3. [manex.ai/imprint](https://www.manex.ai/en/imprint)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/manex-ai)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/manexai/__7melWlQ5tZO_4S2-srjODQWPVjz6g6x7iHI-rvpq_kQ)

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