Forward Deployed Engineer (d/f/m)
Role Overview
This is a senior-level Forward Deployed Engineer role where you'll design and implement integrations between Luminovo and customer systems like ERP, PLM, and CRM, guiding technical onboarding and go-lives. You'll work closely with customers, Sales, and Product teams to shape repeatable solutions, improve API developer experience, and drive revenue by making Solution Engineering a core growth engine. The role involves high ownership, technical depth, and customer-facing responsibilities to build scalable processes and feed insights back into product development.
Perks & Benefits
This is a remote-first position with a globally distributed team across cities like Munich, New York, Austin, and London, implying flexible time zones. The company emphasizes psychological safety, an authentic environment, and career growth through impact-driven work, with a focus on building great things and putting people first. Benefits likely include opportunities for professional development, collaboration with diverse experts, and a supportive culture that values unique contributions over traditional qualifications.
Full Job Description
🚀 Your opportunity
Are you excited about solving real customer problems at the intersection of software, data, and business processes? Do you enjoy working hands-on with APIs and integrations — while also thinking about how technical work can scale and drive revenue?
Then it’s an exciting time to join Luminovo.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you help turn Luminovo’s integration capabilities into a scalable, revenue-driving function. You work closely with customers, Sales, and Product to focus on the highest-impact integration use cases, shape them into repeatable solutions, and bring them to market. In doing so, you help build the processes and foundations that make Solution Engineering a core part of Luminovo’s growth engine.
You design and implement integrations between Luminovo and customer systems such as ERP, PLM, and CRM, guiding customers through technical onboarding and complex go-lives. At the same time, you continuously improve the developer experience of our APIs by defining common integration patterns, contributing feedback to API design, and maintaining clear, high-quality documentation.
This is a customer-facing, high-impact role with strong technical depth and real ownership. You act as a trusted technical expert in pre- and post-sales contexts, enable Sales and Customer Success with sound solution designs, and feed recurring customer insights back into Product and Engineering to improve Luminovo’s integration capabilities over time.
🤓 Our product
Luminovo is the first all-in-one supply chain platform built specifically for the electronics industry. Whether it's an OEM designing or procuring electronics in-house or an EMS, with a procurement and sales team – our platform helps them control their complete electronics supply chain.
👥 Whom you’ll be working with
Igor, Solution Engineer and your manager.
Customer Success Managers like Fabian, David, and Márton.
Product Managers and Software Engineers.
Close collaboration with Sales on complex customer cases.
🎯 Performance objectives
💸 Make Solution Engineering a revenue machine. You concentrate on highest-ROI features, help to shape them and bring them to the market. It’s about building up solution engineering and the processes around it. You own a product module and the sales motion for this product module.
🚀 Make the technical onboardings seamless and scalable. Optimise every minute spent in the onboarding & activation.
🧩 Improve the API. Push the UX of Luminovo's APIs to the next level and work on finding the most impactful use-cases. Take on the role of a product manager and sell the features to the customers.
🏗 Create an ecosystem. Partner with ERP, PLM, CRM systems to make Luminovo the most connected electronic supply chain software.
🤝 Create and drive the sales motion. Enable the sales and customer success teams to generate revenue from the product you shaped. You collaborate closely with the revenue teams to make sure the value of the API is well understood and finds its way to the customer.
🔁 Feed customer insights back into the product: Identify recurring integration patterns, bottlenecks, and customer needs and share these insights with Product and Engineering to continuously improve Luminovo’s integration capabilities. Co-shape Luminovo's API-first future.
We don't need you to be an expert in the electronics industry today. But you have to be willing to dive into it to understand our potential customers' unique situations and how our software tools can create value for them.
⚡️ Skills, knowledge, and expertise
Just so you know – we purposefully did not create a standard list of minimum qualifications for this role. We care much more about your motivation and ability to help us accelerate technical progress than we care just about your CV. If you're interested to find out more about why we banned requirements from our performance profiles – see here.
⚡️ About Luminovo
Luminovo is the first electronics supply chain platform that unites all data, processes, and stakeholders in the trillion-dollar electronics industry.
We fundamentally believe that technology is the best tool that humankind has developed to tackle the biggest challenges we face as a society today. And we want to do our share in accelerating technological progress.
We bring innovations to life faster and cheaper by creating a more connected and resilient electronics supply chain.
To date, over 300 active customers worldwide are working with us towards this shared goal. Supported by leading investors such as Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst/LaFamiglia, Chalfen Ventures, and others, we have raised more than €20 million.
Our core principles: putting people first & building great things
As a remote-first company headquartered in Munich, our brilliant team is spread across cities including Munich, New York, Austin, Calgary, Berlin, London, Valencia, Nairobi, and Verona, among others. 🌍
Our team includes a mix of product enthusiasts, people advocates, business masterminds, and engineering experts. Among us are graduates from institutions like Stanford University and the University of Cambridge, as well as talented individuals with unconventional CVs. What matters most is their drive to build great things.
We provide an authentic environment based on psychological safety to empower Luminerds from various backgrounds to succeed, grow, and focus on impact. Putting people first means that we deeply care about who our employees are, what makes them unique, and what they excel at.
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