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

- **Company:** Manex AI GmbH
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/manex/297cf573-77f7-4833-85b2-35470fec6f4e

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE

Manufacturing runs on fragmented data: machines, sensors, and decade-old systems that don't speak to each other. Data sits in departmental silos, knowledge lives in people's heads, and AI can not unfold its potential in point solutions that don’t deliver. At Manex AI, we build that missing layer with our platform: It handles manufacturing data at scale, models the factory ontology and builds agentic applications that reason and act across it.

We're a small team in Munich, backed by Lightspeed and BlueYard, with engineers from top companies. We ship fast, work close to the shop floor and we don't ship things we're not proud of.

## THE ROLE

You'll build the core of our platform: From data ingestion and our ontology layer to the applications manufacturers use on the shop floor every day. The work spans backend, frontend, performance, and tooling - you'll work where your skills count most. You own features end-to-end and work directly with founders and customers.

## YOU SHOULD APPLY IF YOU

- Write maintainable, tested, and performant code
- Own problems from design to production
- Enjoy writing and reviewing RFCs
- Know at least one of React, Python, TypeScript, or Rust
- Thrive in the pace of an early-stage startup
- Have 2+ years of professional experience

## NICE TO HAVE

- PostgreSQL, DuckDB or experience with lakehouse formats
- Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS
- ML and LLM systems
- CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions
- Monitoring distributed enterprise systems
- Open standards (e.g. RDF, OWL, SHACL)

## WHAT WE OFFER

- A cooperative team where you never solve hard problems alone
- Competitive salary and equity
- High trust and ownership from day one
- Corporate Wellpass membership, subsidized public transport
- Regular offsites with the greatest team - think austrian mountains, lakeside retreats, or european cities
- Relocation support, incl. 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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