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# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Dataleap

- **Company:** Dataleap
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dataleap/6afe756f-fea9-42fc-82ed-621c72a99387

## Job description

## About Dataleap

We raised $3M from YC and angels like Aravind (CEO Perplexity) and Rahul Vohra (Superhuman) to build the agentic operating system for the enterprise. Thousands of agents deployed, doubling revenue every month. Far more enterprise inbound than we can handle.

## About the role

You are the engineer on the ground at our biggest DACH customers, based in Munich, working hand in hand with our Deployment Strategist. When a multibillion-dollar company decides to go AI-native with Dataleap, you show up at their office, sit with their teams, find the workflows that matter, and ship agents that run in production. You scope, build, integrate, debug, and teach. You leave behind systems the customer can own. Then you do it again at the next account. Part forward-deployed engineer, part founding engineer, part technical sparring partner for the customer's CTO. End-to-end. No PM. No spec. You walk into ambiguity and ship. You also build on our core product. When you hit a platform limitation at a customer, you don't file a ticket, you work directly with engineering to close the gap, most often by writing the fix yourself.

## What you'll do

- Embed with our largest DACH customers. Run workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints on site.
- Ship the highest-leverage use cases end to end: complex agents, custom integrations, MCP servers, multi-step workflows wired into the systems they already run on (SAP, internal APIs, legacy tooling).
- Sit with customer CTOs and platform teams as a technical peer.
- Push our own product forward. Identify what's blocking customer value and work with engineering to fix it.
- Build agents to automate your own work. Eliminate manual work from your role.

You're a fit if

- You're a strong full-stack engineer who can also go deep. Bonus if you know Go.
- You're an AI engineer in practice. You've shipped agentic systems, tool-use loops, and LLM features that work under load.
- You live in Claude Code, Cursor, and coding agents. You've already scaled yourself in ways most engineers haven't.
- You can scope a complex use case in a customer meeting at 11am and have it working by EOD.
- You've shipped something from scratch. Founder or early-employee experience is a strong plus.
- You communicate sharply with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- You're high agency, high clock speed, low ego, high ownership — and you want to work very hard and be deeply obsessed.
- You speak German at a native level and are based in Munich or ready to move.

We index on energy, values, and slope — not years of experience.

## What you get

- Direct exposure to my network at YC, Founders Inc, and CDTM.
- The fastest growth opportunity of your career. I'll make sure of it personally.
- Unlimited AI budget. We practice what we preach.
- Top-of-market equity for a founding hire — see the range above.
- A seat at the table as we build out the European org from Munich.
- If you ever want to start your own company, I'll back you.

If this resonates, reach out.

## About Dataleap

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dataleap builds the Agentic Operating System for enterprises, enabling business teams to create AI employees (agents) without engineering assistance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator S24)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has office in Munich, Germany)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jan Damm (CEO) and Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Agentic Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – tech-forward companies ranging from 2-person startups to 2,000-person unicorns; later expanding to all companies.
- **Mission**: “Make knowledge work at your computer fun” – give non-engineering roles (sales, ops, HR) the same AI superpowers that engineers get with tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

## Products & Services
- **Dataleap Platform**: A cloud-based agentic work platform that lets business users describe tasks in natural language and have autonomous AI agents execute them. Features include:
  - 200+ pre-built integrations with common tools (Confluence, ServiceNow, Okta, etc.)
  - Support for custom HTTP APIs and MCP servers
  - Custom interfaces with action buttons generated from user data
  - Human-in-the-loop approvals, reviews, and handoffs
  - Multi‑model support to choose the best LLM for each task
  - Triggers from app events, schedules, and webhooks

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: **$3M** (announced Feb 4, 2026) – raised exclusively from founders and operators. Previous rounds: $500k pre-seed and $125k seed from Y Combinator.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Harj Taggar), BOOOM VC (Felix Plapperer), Wayfinder (Yuri Sagalov), Founders Inc., Alliance, Ritual Capital, Nomad Capital, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Ventures; angel investors include Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Rahul Vohra (Superhuman), Hanno Renner (Personio), and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Team size grew from ~5 to 6 employees (+40% yearly LinkedIn growth)
  - 2,208 LinkedIn followers (+61.8% year over year)
  - Active job postings (3 open roles) with monthly increase of +50%
  - Customers ranging from startups to 2,000‑employee unicorns
  - Creating a new category they call **“vibe working”** – blending close AI collaboration with background automation

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent‑first interface**: No visual workflow builder or long setup (differentiated from tools like n8n and ChatGPT conversational agents).
- **Cloud‑first**: Agents run in the cloud, ensuring knowledge is not lost locally.
- **Enterprise‑ready**: 200+ integrations, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, approvals, and ability to use the best model per task without vendor lock‑in.
- **Crafted experience**: Self‑described as “the Linear of our category” – focused on reliability, ease of use, and virality within organizations.

## Strategic Focus
- Decentralize agent building – give power to domain experts instead of central business automation teams.
- Redefine knowledge work: elevate AI agents from one‑off tasks to persistent background workers.
- Expand from tech‑forward companies to all enterprises.
- Continue building the “agentic operating system” that absorbs and replaces traditional software categories.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, agile team (6 people) with a strong mission and high ownership; described as building “the future of work.”
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office – roles open in San Francisco (HQ) and Munich, Germany.
- **Compensation & equity**: Founding‑level roles with salary ranges:
  - San Francisco: $120K – $250K + 0.20% – 1.00% equity
  - Munich: €90K – €150K + 0.10% – 0.50% equity
- **Notable perks**: Work with YC‑backed team, access to top AI models, and direct impact on product direction. The founders come from Google, BCG, and Oxford AI research.
- **Who they look for**: “Extremely good” individuals who resonate with redefining work – currently hiring Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (Munich), and Deployment Strategist.

## Sources
1. [dataleap.ai](https://dataleap.ai/)
2. [ycombinator.com – company page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap)
3. [linkedin.com – company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataleap-inc)
4. [dataleap.ai – $3M funding announcement](https://www.dataleap.ai/blog/3m-funding-round)
5. [ycombinator.com – jobs page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap/jobs)

## Other roles at Dataleap

- [Founder's Associate](https://feeny.ai/job/founder-s-associate-dataleap-san-francisco-0hbn8e1myd25) — San Francisco, CA
- [Working Student Integrations](https://feeny.ai/job/working-student-integrations-dataleap-munich-r3tap6w1tbrp) — Munich, Germany
- [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-dataleap-san-francisco-na4czwt830wq) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Deployment Strategist](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-deployment-strategist-dataleap-munich-xjbw4zpphew8) — Munich, Germany