Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (m/w/d)

Job description

Join our small, hands-on team to create AI solutions in enterprise context and launch your own ideas at the same time. You’ll have real freedom, shape the tech, and share in the success (salary, earnings share and equity in products we launch). If you have a startup spirit, enjoy side projects, and want to see your work make a real impact, we'd love to connect. About us Overfly is a Berlin-based Partner for Applied AI. We're a team of engineers, product builders and strategists who help enterprises find high-impact AI use cases, then design and build them to production. Tasks What you'll be doing ** Technical leadership** • Owning the technical direction of client projects end-to-end, from architecture decisions (multi-tenant cloud, auth, data isolation) to production-ready delivery on enterprise cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP, OVH) • Making and defending the unsexy calls: IaC standards, release strategies, CI/CD pipelines, security architecture, deployment topology • Designing systems that hold up in regulated enterprise environments, including DSGVO, ISO 27001, SOC2, pen-tests, and compliance reviews Stakeholder navigation in complex enterprise settings • Being the technical voice in client meetings. You translate trade-offs, scope feasibility, and shape requirements with non-technical decision makers, IT security, legal, and C-levels in parallel • Running the room when enterprise stakeholders disagree: mediating between internal IT (firewalls, VPN, network architecture), external partners (hosting, auth providers), and process owners with conflicting agendas • Managing expectations proactively: surfacing risks early, correcting unrealistic cost or timeline assumptions with real numbers, and escalating through the right channels when needed • Communicating commitments that hold. Binding dates, clear scope, honest status. Not optimism disguised as a plan Forward Deployed work • Embedding into client teams, shipping real features alongside their engineers and process owners, often across multiple organisations at once • Ramping quickly into unfamiliar codebases, legacy enterprise systems (Oracle, SAP-adjacent environments) and complex domains (utility metering, insurance, FMCG) • Translating user reality (e.g. the Sachbearbeiterin who wants Excel-like UX) into something your engineering team can actually build Team organisation • Coordinating internal eng…