Forward Deployed Engineer (f/m/x)

<p>We're looking for a <strong>Forward Deployed Engineer</strong> to sit between our platform and the people who use it, quickly turning what our team and our clients actually need into working software.</p> <p><strong>Who we are 👪</strong></p> <p>We believe live music is one of the best things humans do, and that far more artists deserve to make a living from it than currently can. That's the opportunity we're building for.</p> <p>The industry still runs on cold emails and who-knows-who, and it's about to be rebuilt. AI now lets small teams achieve incredible things, and we intend to be the team that rebuilds this one.</p> <p><strong><em>Otherworldly</em></strong> is an AI-native talent management and booking company. We run an actual roster, meaning real tours, real riders, real settlements, and we're turning everything we've learned into agentic infrastructure. That means a database of 250,000+ bookers worldwide and algorithmic pitching systems that get the right artist in front of the right promoter at scale.</p> <p>It's working. We closed our seed round with roster and revenue traction already built. Between us, we've managed No.1 artists and Grammy nominees, led strategy for household-name brands, and founded YC-backed companies. Most music-tech is built by people who've never booked a show, but we book shows every week.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <p>Most companies keep their engineers away from customers.</p> <p>We do the opposite.</p> <p>Our team runs real tours, pitches real promoters, and manages real artists every day, and every one of those workflows is a system waiting to be built. Your job is to live at that boundary. That means watching the work happen, finding the friction, and shipping the feature that removes it.</p> <p>● Embed with the booking and artist-care teams. Sit with them, watch how they actually work, and turn the messiest, most manual parts of their day into software</p> <p>● Build and ship end-to-end. You'll take a problem from "the team keeps doing this by hand" to a deployed, working feature, often in days, not sprints</p> <p>● Own the last mile of the agentic platform. The integrations, workflows, and interfaces that decide whether our AI systems actually provide value</p> <p>● Close the loop between roster and product. You're the person who hears an artist's or booker's real problem and comes back with a solution, then feeds what you learn back into the core platform</p> <p>● Be the technical face to our users when it counts. You're comfortable in the room with a manager, a promoter, or an artist, not just behind a screen</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p>You'll thrive here if...</p> <p>🚢 <strong>You ship fast and talk to users.</strong> You're comfortable reading a spec or sitting with the person who has the problem. You prototype, iterate, and get something working fast.</p> <p>🛠 <strong>You're a generalist who finishes things.</strong> Frontend, backend, glue code, an LLM call, a scrappy integration, you'll do whatever the problem needs, and you take it all the way to deployed and used</p> <p>📈 <strong>You hold yourself to a high bar.</strong> You've shown ambition and excellence somewhere in your life - professionally, academically, or otherwise, and you want your work to matter</p> <p>🎵 <strong>You love music, or want to work for people who do.</strong> Everything we build exists to get artists booked, paid, and heard.</p> <p><strong>Our must-have Requirements 🤝</strong></p> <p>● Strong full-stack engineering experience. You can build and ship a working product feature end-to-end, from data to interface, without waiting on anyone</p> <p>● Comfort integrating LLMs into real products. You feel comfortable with API calls, prompt design, structured outputs, and knowing when the model is the wrong tool</p> <p>● A track record of shipping fast in ambiguous, early-stage environments. Be that startups, founding teams, or your own projects</p> <p>● Excellent communication and a genuine willingness to spend time with non-technical users, understand their work, and earn their trust</p> <p>● Solid Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript, and the pragmatism to pick up whatever the job needs</p> <p><strong>Strong plus ✅</strong></p> <p>● Experience as a forward deployed / solutions / founding engineer, or any role where you owned the boundary between product and customer</p> <p>● Familiarity with agentic frameworks and the LLM stack (embeddings, vector DBs, RAG, evaluation)</p> <p>● Background building internal tools, workflow automation, or CRM/outbound systems ● A real connection to the music industry or its tools</p> <h2>Benefits</h2> <p>What we offer 🎁</p> <p>● Early-stage equity and genuine ownership of the core agentic architecture</p> <p>● Direct influence on the product roadmap from day one</p> <p>● A front-row seat to an industry being rebuilt, working from Berlin, one of the world's great music cities</p> <p>● Access to one of the most exciting sectors on earth, working with musicians, venues, brands, and talent agents.</p> <p>● Company laptop</p> <p>● Health insurance</p> <p>● Sports club memberships</p> <p>● 5 days/week in our Berlin office, working side-by-side with the whole team</p> <p>● Blue Card EU Visa sponsorship if required</p> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>