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title: 'Founding Engineer at Furo'
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# Founding Engineer at Furo

- **Company:** Furo
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/furo/6c0df588-62ea-455c-bde5-b77010c4a622

## Job description

You'll build the core product that controls billions in energy assets:

- Backend systems for real-time optimization and forecasting
- Frontend for battery operators and industrial customers
- Infrastructure to scale across thousands of battery systems

## YOU WILL HAVE FUN IF YOU ARE

Builder with agency

- Get-shit-done mentality — you ship fast and iterate
- High ownership — you develop ideas and execute with minimal guidance
- Product-minded — you solve customer problems end-to-end

Deeply technical

- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals
- Math/optimization skills highly valued
- Excited about complex technical challenges

Mission-driven

- Passionate about energy transition and climate impact
- Thrive in early-stage chaos and ambiguity (e.g. "What about a release today?")
- Ready to go all in and take real ownership

## YOU WON'T HAVE FUN IF YOU

- Like to follow processes — we don't have any
- Want a typical 9-5
- Want to work remotely — we're in the office at least 5 days/week
- Like coding all day long — at least 20% of your work is talking to customers

## QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in a full-stack engineering role, building production applications
- Frontend development skills with JavaScript/TypeScript, React (preferably with Next.js), and Tailwind CSS
- Solid backend development experience with Python and mixed integer optimizations
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Speak fluently German because most of our customers only speak German

Don't worry if you don't have all of the above. We believe much more in the right mindset than the right experience. We happily teach you a lot and thus prefer fast-learners over high experience.

## PERKS

- Super small team, super early → you're not only part of our culture, you will shape it
- Responsibility from day one → the best idea wins, regardless of who it comes from
- All the tools you need → Cursor, AI subscriptions, whatever helps you ship faster
- Direct customer access → build what matters, see impact immediately
- Munich-based → work alongside founders solving hard problems together
- €70-100K salary + equity as Full Time
- €20/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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