Founding Engineer

LLMs are fundamentally changing analytical work. Capabilities that once required large teams of highly paid data engineers are becoming accessible to smaller companies for the first time.

At Palantir, we delivered real data and BI value, but deployments never scaled without expensive, hands-on engineers. We believe LLMs change this. Zeit AI is building the agentic machinery to unblock Europes SMEs.

We need to engineer agents that understand any business, integrate various data sources and built applications that help operators to tackle unforeseen business challenges.

As a Founding Engineer, you will treat ZeitMind as your product. You will shape how non-technical users work with data, workflows, and agents. This role is about making product decisions under uncertainty, building durable foundations, and iterating directly from real usage.

You will operate end to end: forming assumptions, shipping production systems, validating outcomes, and refining direction based on what actually works.

• are comfortable working without predefined specs

• take full ownership of outcomes, from idea to production to user impact

• think in systems and products. Code is a means to build leverage, not the goal

• form strong assumptions, test them quickly, and are willing to discard them when reality disagrees

• care deeply about how users actually work and design accordingly

• want to build foundations early rather than optimize mature systems

• bring strong full-stack experience. TypeScript and React are required

• are comfortable owning data-heavy production systems end to end

• are genuinely interested in the data and agentic space and how LLMs can enable new workflows for non-technical users

Zeit AI is an engineering-driven company. We work with high autonomy, minimal process, and fast iteration. Every engineer owns problems end to end and work closely with users and our Forward-Deployed Team.

• Munich is our primary hub. We believe strongly in frequent in-person collaboration and build the team around it. We help you to relocate

• We do regular SF off sites for product sprints and staying close to the cutting edge

• Whatever makes you faster, you can get

• Food on us. Daily lunch allowance and free in-office dinner

• Wellpass

• We offer a €5k referral bonus

TypeScript end to end. React frontend with Mantine, TanStack Router and TanStack Query. Backend on Bun with Postgres and Supabase.