Forward Deployed Engineer - in Münster or Munich (m/w/d)

Aufgaben

The engine you co-build

The Agentic Energy OS has four layers. You deliver into all four, and your field feedback rewrites them:

1. Digital Twin: A live model of a customer's entire energy system: power grid, gas, steam at multiple pressure levels, cold/hot water, waste heat recovery, self-generation, batteries. Smart meter and OPC UA integrations. Calibrated to the customer's reality.

2. Decision Hub: The investment-and-strategy layer. Designer scenarios, business cases, what-if analyses, roadmap planning across the customer's portfolio.

3. Operation Hub: Cross-market, cross-plant live optimization. Day Ahead, Intraday Continuous, balancing energy. Calculates the internal merit order across the entire plant fleet, feeds prices and volumes into flex-marketer partners.

4. The Autonomous Agent: The science fiction layer. Builds Digital Twins autonomously. Reads single-line diagrams, parses SharePoints, asks the right person for missing time series, researches component parameters, runs optimizations, finds savings in €/ton, uncovers contradictions in source data, and reports back.

You are the driving instructor for autonomous driving. The agent needs you — to sit next to the operator, to hear what is said in the break room, to resolve contradictions the AI cannot see, and to stop it from emailing the entire purchasing department at 2 AM. Over time, your job becomes systematically automating away everything you still do by hand: you actively co-develop so that every workaround you find becomes obsolete. The site teaches the engine. You are the teacher.

What you do on a Tuesday

• You work alongside agents handling a customer's chemical site: 12 process steam consumers across 3 pressure levels, an e-boiler option, a CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant, a waste heat recovery loop.

• You review optimizations the agent has developed to compare a Power-to-Heat investment scenario against the status quo.

• You catch a contradiction flagged by the autonomous agent — two single-line diagrams contradicting each other regarding a transformer rating — and fix it before the optimization runs on bad data.

Qualifikation

What we are looking for

Three deep skill areas, plus one transversal strength. You need a strong spike in one of the three areas below, clear curiosity in the other two, and the transversal strength is non-negotiable: you iterate quickly, treat customer feedback as the highest-priority input, and make yourself the fastest signal-to-engine path RIZM has.

Applied AI Engineering — Frontier Startup Level

• You treat hallucinations as an engineering problem, not a vibe. You can convince a customer's CISO that the agent won't go rogue.

Energy Intelligence — Enterprise Level

• DACH / EU power market opportunities: Day Ahead / Intraday / Balancing Energy / Grid Connection — the significance must be familiar to you.

• Energy system understanding: you understand physics and thermodynamics — you have a tattoo of the First Law of Thermodynamics.

• Process understanding: you are razor-sharp at understanding production processes and their energy interactions.

• Optimization intuition: you know what makes a numerical model slow before you even run it.

• OPC UA, Modbus, OT network segmentation are familiar to you.

Commercial Ownership — the third spike

• You sit down with the operator, the plant manager, and the CFO. You extract requirements they themselves don't know how to articulate.

• You build the business case yourself. You don't wait for Product to do it for you.

• You measure your own success in the reduction of EUR/unit at the customer, not in closed tickets.