Founding Forward Deployed Engineer tl;drAfter 14 years in construction tech, Lea & Jonas are building the intelligence layer for the construction industryThe largest construction enterprises in Europe — with a combined project volume of over €30bn annually — rely on Kuro every day to automate workflows and make faster, better decisionsConstruction has the most complex, unstructured data you can throw at an LLM — PDFs, drawings, 3D models, images, calculations. At Kuro you can tackle the hardest applied AI problems everyday.About KuroLea and Jonas scaled two of Europe's leading construction tech companies - Capmo and alcemy - and saw firsthand the challenges holding the industry back. Now they're tackling the root cause: the 50% of construction work still lost to manual data handling.Kuro is the the intelligent project data system for construction. We're reimagining how construction professionals get work done and make decisions by leveraging AI to augment back-office workflows and make core data accessible.After one year on the market leading construction enterprises with a combined construction volume >30 billion annually use Kuro everyday to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions.We are 10 people based in Berlin. You will join a group of ex-technical founders and builders that are ambitious and kind.Learn more: Join Kuro - BerlinAbout the roleWhat You’ll DoYou'll own new AI automation use cases end-to-end - from understanding the customer's world to shipping production-ready solutions on Kuro's platform within weeks. This is not a pure backend role, and not classic consulting either. It's a high-ownership position where you work directly with enterprise stakeholders to build something real.Turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped, buildable solutions — then ship themBuild with modern applied AI (LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, embeddings, heuristics) to solve high-impact problemsDesign data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration on top of Kuro's platform abstractionsIdentify recurring patterns across projects and codify them into reusable templatesBalance speed, accuracy, and pragmatism — and know when to keep a human in the loopHelp shape the technical direction of both the product and the companyAs one of our first forward deployed engineering hires, you'll have significant influence on how we build, what we build, and how fast we move.Past Projects You Would Have Been Part OfLLM extraction agent for interior estimationBuilt a PoC that extracts quantities from unstructured documents, saving ~4 days of work per project.Subcontractor KYC automationDeveloped an internal app to automate KYC checks, reducing manual effort by ~50%.LLM-based Bill of Quantities parsingCreated a parser that structures complex BoQs automatically, saving hours per day for procurement managers.Construction ontologies with enterprise customersCo-developed interior and shell construction ontologies that power downstream AI automation.Your profileThis role is ideal for a hungry and talented software engineer or data scientist seeking close customer exposure in an early-stage company building a high-impact applied AI product. You enjoy taking ownership, moving fast, and building things end-to-end.Have 2**+ years** of experience as a software engineer or data scientistAre comfortable owning problems end-to-endThrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environmentsAre pragmatic and biased toward actionEnjoy working directly with customers and like to visit them on siteAre excited about applied AI, not just theoryCan clearly explain trade-offs and decisionsYou are at least able to speak C1 germanBonus PointsExperience in early-stage startups or founding teamsPrior experience with customer-facing rolesExperience with unstructured data and ontologiesCurrent Tech StackIt is still day 0 for Kuro. Therefore we are highly pragmatic with our tool choices. We believe in keeping it simple and moving quickly. You significantly help shape our tech stack decisions.Web-App: Typescript / ViteCloud Functions: SupabaseDatabase / Vector DB and File Storage: Supabase (postgress) / Weaviate / AWS S3Backend (Document Pipelines & applied AI): Fastify API / TS + Python for ML ServicesHosting: Railway (Moving to AWS)AI: Azure / OpenAI, Gemini, CohereObsv., Eval. & Tracking: Langfuse, DatadogYour OpportunityYou are joining Kuro at the moment it matters most. The product is live, customers are paying, and the hard platform challenges are just beginning. Construction generates the most complex, unstructured data you can throw at an LLM — PDFs, drawings, 3D models, images, calculations. This is the most challenging applied AI problem you can work on, in an industry we all depend on.This is your chance to join extremely early and help build the core infrastructure for construction automation. You'll be one of our first engineering hires — working on real customer problems from day one, making technical decisions with direct impact, and shaping both the product and how we build it. You'll own meaningful parts of Kuro end-to-end, with the autonomy to grow as a strong individual contributor or take on leadership responsibility over time.The processIntro Call - Intro, Logistics & Fit with Lea (30min)Second Call - Get to know Product and Tech at Kuro with Jonas (30min)Technical Challenge - time boxed home assignment (~5 hours)Challenge Review (45min)On-site DayCulture Interview (30 Min)Meet several team membersGo for lunch or dinnerDecision