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title: 'Frontend Engineer (f/m/d) at Manex AI GmbH'
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# Frontend Engineer (f/m/d) at Manex AI GmbH

- **Company:** Manex AI GmbH
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/manex/08bbb0a8-53b7-45c2-9512-52408cefde2b

## Job description

## Who We Are

Manufacturing runs on fragmented data: machines, sensors and decade-old systems that don't talk to each other. Data sits in departmental silos, knowledge lives in people's heads, and AI can't unfold its potential in point solutions that don't deliver. At Manex AI, we build the missing layer. Our platform handles manufacturing data at scale, models the factory ontology and builds agentic applications that reason and act across it. We're a fast-growing team in Munich, backed by Lightspeed and BlueYard, with engineers from top companies and leading enterprise manufacturers as customers. We ship fast, work close to the shop floor, and we don't ship things we're not proud of.

## The Role

As Frontend Engineer, you'll work across our entire frontend ecosystem and own frontend systems end-to-end. You'll use AI to ship a high volume of polished work while making thoughtful architectural decisions that keep our frontend coherent and easy to extend. You'll work directly with founders, engineers and customers, and see your work used on real factory floors.

## What You'll Do

- Platform: Build the interface for Kosmos, the platform that brings together enterprise data, operational context and AI
- Applications: Build interfaces for manufacturing applications that run on and are embedded into Kosmos
- Framework & DX: Ship the components, conventions, tooling and guidance that help AI agents, full-stack engineers and forward-deployed engineers build better UI faster
- Architecture: Make the calls that keep our frontend consistent, maintainable and ready to scale

You Should Apply If You

- Use AI as a serious engineering tool and can turn it into a high volume of reliable output
- Care about architecture and know when to create a reusable abstraction, and when not to
- Have strong visual judgment and notice when an interface feels confusing, inconsistent or unfinished
- Enjoy turning recurring UI problems into primitives, patterns, documentation and tooling for other builders
- Care about frontend fundamentals such as usability, accessibility, performance and maintainability
- Learn unfamiliar technologies quickly and form your own judgment about technical tradeoffs

We care more about evidence of cleverness, craft and learning speed than about years of experience, credentials or prior use of our exact stack.

## Nice to Have

- TypeScript, React or Next.js
- Design systems, component libraries or Storybook
- Visual regression, accessibility and browser testing
- SDKs, developer platforms, embedded applications or microfrontends
- Complex interfaces involving data grids, graphs, editors, workflows or real-time state
- Experience designing tools or interfaces for AI-assisted development

Our current stack includes Next.js 16.3, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Radix-based components, TanStack libraries, Storybook, Vitest and Playwright. Familiarity helps, but none of these tools is a prerequisite.

## What We Offer

- A cooperative team where you own your work, but never solve hard problems alone
- High trust and ownership from day one
- Competitive salary and equity
- Corporate Wellpass membership and a subsidized Deutschlandticket
- Regular offsites with the greatest team: think Austrian mountains, lakeside retreats or European cities
- Relocation support, including corporate housing offers

Are you willing to start contributing to European autonomy at scale? 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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