Forward Deployed Engineer - Internship
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Job description
Manex AI published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Munich, Germany.
Description provided by Manex AI
About Us
Manex AI is on a mission to enable autonomy for the world's leading organizations, currently building the production system for the era of autonomous manufacturing. With our Seed Round raised from Lightspeed and BlueYard and leading manufacturing enterprises relying on our systems, we are now focused on scaling operations across all departments. For our world-class team, we are looking for experts and talent that is ambitious enough to tackle some of the world’s most pressing and complex problems.
Your Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer Intern, you work at the core of our customer delivery, alongside our engineers who are embedded in the production environments of our industry-leading customers. You build software and AI applications on our platform "Kosmos" that ship into live customer projects. From your first week, you own real problems and see how your technical decisions create measurable impact for some of the most demanding manufacturers in the world.
For interns who deliver, this is the fastest path into a full-time Forward Deployed Engineer role.
Your Responsibilities
- Build software and AI application features within real customer projects
- Work alongside senior engineers to troubleshoot, document, and ship solutions
- Support the technical integration of our platform into customer environments
- Turn concrete customer requirements into working technical solutions
- Learn how production processes, IT infrastructure, and AI products come together
- Currently studying Computer Science, Information Systems or similar in your Masters or towards the end of your Bachelor's
- Strong hands-on coding ability, proven through your own projects, ventures, or open-source work
- An agentic mindset: you take initiative, move fast, and finish what you start
- Ideally strong experience in Python, TypeScript and Docker
- Fluent in English and ideally in German as well
- Based in Munich or willing to relocate for the duration of the internship
What we offer
- Real ownership from day one
- A fast-track into a full-time Forward Deployed Engineer role
- Direct mentorship from senior engineers and direct access to founders
- Hands-on experience onsite with real customers, real production systems, and frontier applied AI
- A fast-paced environment backed by the world's best investors, with the world's leading organizations as customers
Working student essentials
What this Tech internship in Munich means for you — pay rules, social contributions, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Internships have no 20-hour cap, but a voluntary internship longer than three months generally has to pay at least the German minimum wage. Mandatory internships in your study programme are exempt.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Mandatory internships are largely exempt from social contributions. Voluntary internships are treated like regular employment once they run long enough, so contributions usually apply.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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