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title: 'Forward Deployed Hardware Engineer at Furo'
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# Forward Deployed Hardware Engineer at Furo

- **Company:** Furo
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Compensation:** €70k–€100k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/furo/3e48ad7c-39b1-45c8-b169-1e2583c4751c

## Job description

Our software decides every 15 minutes what a battery should do. You own the layer that makes it happen: our EMS, the interface between our optimizer and every battery we connect. Whether we build our own EMS or integrate existing ones is a call you'll help us make.

- Own our EMS integration layer: one clean interface that connects any storage system (inverter, BMS, site controller) to our optimizer
- Onboard new vendors over Modbus, MQTT and vendor APIs, so the next battery is a config, not a project
- Commission systems on site until the battery follows the plan to the kW
- Build our own edge box on standard hardware (think Raspberry Pi on a DIN rail)

You Will Have Fun If You Are Builder with agency

- Get-shit-done mentality: you'd rather drive to the site than wait for a support ticket
- High ownership: the EMS interface is yours, from the vendor call to go-live

Mission-driven

- Passionate about energy transition and climate impact
- Thrive in early-stage chaos (e.g. "Can you be in Ingolstadt tomorrow at 8?")

You Won't Have Fun If You

- Like to follow processes. We don't have any.
- Want to work remotely. We're in the office 5 days/week, and regularly on site at customers.
- Want to stay on one side of the wall. This is half software, half hardware.

## Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with energy management systems (EMS) for battery storage, PV or C&I sites. Ideally you've built or integrated one yourself, whether at work, in your thesis or during an internship. Similar experience counts too (e.g. battery management systems (BMS), SCADA, EV charging, building automation or industrial controls): a lot of that knowledge transfers directly
- Solid Python and embedded Linux (networking, VPN, remote updates)
- Industrial protocols: Modbus TCP/RTU, MQTT, REST
- Electrical basics: inverter, BMS, grid connection point. Bonus: PV/battery commissioning
- Fluent German, because installers and customers speak German

Fresh out of university? Very welcome. Experience from your thesis, internships or side projects counts just as much as a job title. Don't worry if you don't tick every box: we prefer fast learners over years of experience.

## Perks

- Super small team, super early: you shape the culture
- You own the EMS and the hardware: how we connect batteries and which box we ship is your call
- Direct customer access: see your code move a megawatt-hour battery
- €70–100K salary + equity as full time · €24/h as working student

## About Furo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Furo provides a hardware‑agnostic AI software platform that plans, operates, and commercialises industrial battery storage systems from a single interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup; formerly Lumera Energy)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Simon Wittner, Leonie Wagner, Lena Sophia Voss

## Core Business
Furo is an energy software company focused on the commercial and industrial (C&I) battery storage segment. The platform covers the entire lifecycle of a storage system – from sizing and profitability simulation (virtual battery/digital twin) through real‑time optimisation and automated energy trading.  
- **Primary industry**: Energy software / Battery storage / Cleantech  
- **Target customers**: B2B – project developers, installers, energy suppliers, municipal utilities, and industrial operators  
- **Mission**: Turn energy volatility into a competitive advantage for European industry by making every battery storage system operate at maximum economic potential.

## Products & Services
- **Design Software**: Sizes the optimal storage configuration and calculates profitability in minutes using load profiles and location data. Generates customer‑ready documents.
- **Virtual Battery & EMS (Energy Management System)**: A digital twin of the storage project that simulates expected revenues before installation and seamlessly transitions to live operation after commissioning.
- **Flexibility Marketing**: Automatically detects unused capacity and markets it on wholesale energy markets (spot market arbitrage, atypical grid usage, dynamic tariffs) – even for systems below 1 MW.
- **Multi‑Use Optimisation**: Combines self‑consumption maximisation, peak shaving, spot trading, and grid services in a continuously learning AI that adapts to weather, prices, and consumption patterns.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Not publicly disclosed (private startup with paying customers).
- **Key Metric**: Over 3,500 industrial sites are already being planned or optimised on the platform; ~100 paying customers and >600 companies registered.
- **Notable Partners**: Enpal, Sonnen (Shell), Fenecon, BayWa, Segen, IBC Solar, badenova.
- **Growth Signals**: Launched the first complete operational solution combining planning and real‑time operation (May 2026). Active in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain. Claims to reduce payback periods from 15 years to 5 years and increase economic potential by up to 40%.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware‑agnostic**: Compatible with all common battery technologies – vendor lock‑in avoided.
- **First to unify planning and real‑time operation**: No other system on the market combines sizing, forecasting, multi‑use optimisation, and automated trading in one platform for C&I storage from 150 kW.
- **AI‑driven forecasting & learning**: Uses price, weather, and consumption predictions that continuously improve – replaces static, rule‑based controls.
- **Virtual Battery**: Enables operators to model revenue before any hardware is installed, reducing investment risk.

## Strategic Focus
- Become the central energy flexibility platform for European industry by coordinating all stakeholders (OEMs, project developers, industrial customers, utilities) on one system.
- Expand geographic presence beyond DACH and Spain into additional European markets.
- Continue product development to serve both small industrial sites (≥100 kW behind‑the‑meter) and larger facilities (>3 MW).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven team**: Founded by engineers and consultants from Apple, Google X, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and BCG who returned to Europe to tackle the energy transition.
- **High growth trajectory**: Young company (founded 2025) already with hundreds of customers and rapid product expansion – opportunity to shape the future of industrial energy.
- **Cutting‑edge tech stack**: AI, digital twins, real‑time optimisation, and energy trading – work on a platform that directly impacts carbon reduction and industrial competitiveness.
- **Collaborative culture**: Small, focused team with backgrounds in top tech and consulting firms; offices in Munich (remote/hybrid policy not specified – check careers page for current openings).

## Sources
1. [furoenergy.com](https://www.furoenergy.com/en/)  
2. [PES EU – Press Release](https://pes.eu.com/press-releases/furo-launches-first-software-solution-to-combine-planning-and-real-time-operation-in-industrial-storage?hs_amp=true)  
3. [Munich Startup – Interview](https://www.munich-startup.de/en/121199/furo-7-questions/)  
4. [Compare the Cloud – News Article](https://www.comparethecloud.net/news/furo-says-battery-storage-has-become-a-commodity-the-software-to-operate-it-hasnt)  
5. [Furo Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/furo)

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