Forward Deployed Engineer (fmx)

Were looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit between our platform and the people who use it quickly turning what our team and our clients actually need into working software.

Who we are

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. Thats the opportunity were building for.

The industry still runs on cold emails and who-knows-who and its about to be rebuilt. AI now lets small teams achieve incredible things and we intend to be the team that rebuilds this one.

Otherworldly is an AI-native talent management and booking company. We run an actual roster meaning real tours real riders real settlements and were turning everything weve learned into agentic infrastructure. That means a database of 250000 bookers worldwide and algorithmic pitching systems that get the right artist in front of the right promoter at scale.

Its working. We closed our seed round with roster and revenue traction already built. Between us weve 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 whove never booked a show but we book shows every week.

Tasks

Most companies keep their engineers away from customers.

We do the opposite.

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.

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

Build and ship end-to-end. Youll take a problem from the team keeps doing this by hand to a deployed working feature often in days not sprints

Own the last mile of the agentic platform. The integrations workflows and interfaces that decide whether our AI systems actually provide value

Close the loop between roster and product. Youre the person who hears an artists or bookers real problem and comes back with a solution then feeds what you learn back into the core platform

Be the technical face to our users when it counts. Youre comfortable in the room with a manager a promoter or an artist not just behind a screen

Requirements

Youll thrive here if...

You ship fast and talk to users. Youre comfortable reading a spec or sitting with the person who has the problem. You prototype iterate and get something working fast.

Youre a generalist who finishes things. Frontend backend glue code an LLM call a scrappy integration youll do whatever the problem needs and you take it all the way to deployed and used

You hold yourself to a high bar. Youve shown ambition and excellence somewhere in your life - professionally academically or otherwise and you want your work to matter

You love music or want to work for people who do. Everything we build exists to get artists booked paid and heard.

Our must-have Requirements

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

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

A track record of shipping fast in ambiguous early-stage environments. Be that startups founding teams or your own projects

Excellent communication and a genuine willingness to spend time with non-technical users understand their work and earn their trust

Solid Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript and the pragmatism to pick up whatever the job needs

Strong plus

Experience as a forward deployed / solutions / founding engineer or any role where you owned the boundary between product and customer

Familiarity with agentic frameworks and the LLM stack (embeddings vector DBs RAG evaluation)

Background building internal tools workflow automation or CRM/outbound systems A real connection to the music industry or its tools

Benefits

What we offer

Early-stage equity and genuine ownership of the core agentic architecture

Direct influence on the product roadmap from day one

A front-row seat to an industry being rebuilt working from Berlin one of the worlds great music cities

Access to one of the most exciting sectors on earth working with musicians venues brands and talent agents.

Company laptop

Health insurance

Sports club memberships

5 days/week in our Berlin office working side-by-side with the whole team

Blue Card EU Visa sponsorship if required