Founding Engineer in Großmehring, München

We're building Subtrace: an AI-native layer that automatically captures tasks activity and reconstructs it as structured process data: tasks, workflows, bottlenecks, and automation candidates. No integrations. No manual modeling. Just a the data layer that understands work.As our Founding Engineer, you're not joining a team - you're building it. You own the core architecture, make the hard technical calls, and ship things that work. This is a zero-to-one role.What we are looking for:5+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacityStrong background in one or more of: computer vision, real-time video/screen processing, ML inference pipelines, or event stream processingExperience with Python (core stack) and TypeScript (optional but valued)Comfortable with ambiguity you can take a problem statement and produce a working prototypeAbility to design systems that are modular and scalable from day oneYou've shipped production software end-to-end, not just contributed to itNice-to-have:Experience with OCR, UI element detection, or activity recognitionFamiliarity with process mining concepts (event logs, Petri nets, conformance checking)RPA tooling knowledge (UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or similar)Prior experience at an early-stage startup (pre-Series A)Responsibilities:Core capture engine: screen recording, click/input detection, visual diffingAI pipeline: segmentation of raw activity into tasks, steps, and variantsData model: schema for tasks, workflows, process trees, and metadataInfrastructure: real-time processing, storage, and API layerHiring bar: your code sets the standard for every engineer who joins after youWhy this role:Founding equity not token options, real co-founder-adjacent stakeFull technical ownership from day oneDirect line to the CEO no layers, no bureaucracySolving a problem that hasn't been cracked without integrations or log access #J-18808-Ljbffr