Forward Deployed Engineer - Intern

Your responsibilities

You’ll be the bridge between Business & Tech - owning the technical deployment of our AI platform for new customers. From ERP integrations to AI feature enablement, you’ll make sure Plato delivers measurable value from day one.

• Own deployments end-to-end. Sit between Engineering, Customer Success, and the customer to bring apps live; fast and clean.
• Translate complexity. Turn integration and customer needs into clear, actionable technical action items for our engineering team.
• Shape AI features. Conceptualize and build AI-driven features based on customer requests - from document processing automations to in-app intelligence.
• Troubleshoot with data. Use SQL, Python, and DBT to dive into data pipelines, debug issues, and validate results.
• Be the connector. You align all sides - from customer expectations to product capabilities - ensuring every rollout turns into a success story.

Your qualifications

• Technical background (Computer Science, Information Systems, or related)
• Practical experience in coding/development (e.g., via internship or project) and first customer facing roles
• Fluent in German, excellent communicator
• Strong SQL and Python skills
• AI-native mindset and curiosity for automation

As Oli, our CTO, would say:
“We don’t expect you to be the best developer or see yourself as a developer at all, but rather a clear, concise communicator with an eye for details”

Why us?

• Become part of a top tier VC-funded rocket ship that reinvents the largest B2B software category with AI and decarbonizes the supply chain, granting you a high level of autonomy
• Create meaningful impact by shaping the future of the wholesale industry, bringing Plato’s software to life in the market, and realizing value in the day-to-day work of sales leaders.
• Vast learning opportunities for scaling sales and customer success in a high-growth AI startup, with close collaboration with the founding team.
• Perfect balance between a high level of ownership and extensive mentorship from an A-team with experience at leading companies & schools, including McKinsey, Rocket Internet, Celonis, Stanford, CDTM, HSG to name a few.
• Extremely diverse team with a fun and dynamic company culture, featuring weekly team lunches, regular team events, and get-togethers.
• For outstanding interns, the potential option to convert into a full-time role, join the Plato journey and enter a generational company as part of it first 30 employees.