Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Identify high-impact business workflows, redesign them for AI agents, connect systems, and deploy and operate production agents while tracking quality, efficiency, cost, and business outcomes.
Real innovation starts with a strong foundation, and at commercetools, that comes from the perfect balance of our product and our people.
Behind every leap forward is a collective of builders, explorers, doers, makers, and problem-solvers.The kind of people who not only pioneered a more flexible approach to commerce architecture but also shaped the culture of experimentation that approach unlocked. Together, they are the engine of commerce innovation today.
At commercetools, we power the next era of commerce for our customers. Whether itโs AI-driven solutions that help enterprises make smarter business decisions, bridging digital and physical shopping experiences, or enabling entirely new ways for industries to connect with their customers, we help the worldโs most ambitious companies experiment, scale, and grow without limits.
Here, the best idea wins, not the loudest voice. You will have the tools, trust, and space to not only build the future of commerce but to build your own.
As a Senior Search Engineer on our Discovery Team, you will build the retrieval layer behind product discovery for some of the worldโs most demanding commerce brands.
Search is changing shape. Shoppers type full sentences instead of keywords, and increasingly the client calling our API is an AI agent rather than a person. We are on the path to take our semantic and hybrid retrieval to general availability, and tackling the hard problems: making it fast, affordable, measurably better across enterprise catalogs, and working out what comes after it. You would join that work at every layer, from query understanding down to the vector index and the cost of a single query.
You will:
This role is hybrid, with three days a week spent in our Munich, Berlin, London or Valencia office.
You're a creative problem-solver who is wired to find solutions. You confidently dive into complex challenges and have a talent for making them simple for others. Your curiosity drives you to constantly grow and contribute to an environment of trust and teamwork.
Great ideas come from many paths, and your unique perspective matters more than checking every box. What matters most is the mindset you bring to the work.
You bring:
Nice to Have:
Because work and life are connected, our benefits are too. Weโve designed them to give you the security, flexibility, and opportunities you need to focus on what matters most.
๐ฉบ Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support
๐ Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and leadership programs
๐ผ Family Leave Plus gives you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave, so you can spend more time with your new addition
๐ Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success
For more information on our benefits, visit this page.
Come as you are. Build with us.
Your unique perspective is essential to our success. We are committed to building a team that reflects the world around us because we know itโs the only way to build the future. We celebrate our differences and have created a hiring process thatโs fair, inclusive, and designed to let your talent shine.
We proudly welcome applicants of every race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and any other part of your identity that makes you who you are. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe that our strength lies in our diversity, and we invite you to be a part of our global community.
For more information on our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging practices, visit this page.
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