# Forward Deployed Engineer at Turba Labs (Turbalance)

> Open job at Turba Labs (Turbalance) in Heidelberg, Germany. Workplace: On-site.

Source: Germany Dev Jobs, https://germanydevjobs.com/jobs/turba-labs-turbalance-forward-deployed-engineer-dtn6gik
Posted 16 March 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 11 November 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [Turba Labs (Turbalance)](https://germanydevjobs.com/companies/turba-labs-turbalance)
- Location: Heidelberg, Germany
- Workplace: On-site
- Employment type: Full-time
- German: Not required
- Skills: AWS, Azure, C++, Go, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, LLMs, PyTorch, Python, Rust
- Not mentioned in the job post: salary, visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## Job description

#### Your mission

Turba Labs is an innovative, emerging startup looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our growing team! In this role, you'll be a key technical partner for our customers across the entire customer lifecycle, from pre-sales technical support through onboarding, implementation, and ongoing enablement. If you're a technically versatile problem-solver with a passion for helping customers succeed and want to build a great company, we want to hear from you.

**What You'll Do:**

- Guide customers through onboarding, ensuring they are fully prepared and proficient in using our solutions
- Conduct training sessions and develop enablement materials tailored to customer needs
- Proactively identify opportunities for customers to maximize platform value
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, offering best practices and solutions to common challenges
- Provide hands-on support for solution setup and configuration within customer environments
- Support API and system integrations with existing customer infrastructure
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues, collaborating with engineering teams on complex problems
- Troubleshoot connectivity, performance, and deployment challenges
- Support the sales team with domain expertise and technical credibility
- Demonstrate technical capabilities and solution fit during the sales process
- Design integration approaches and implementation plans for prospective customers
- Gather customer feedback and relay insights to product and engineering teams
- Reduce workload on core engineering teams by handling customer-facing technical work
- Provide responsive, dedicated customer engagement to build long-term relationships

#### Your profile

- Strong background working with diverse technology stacks, with ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies
- Solid coding foundation with C++ and Python as must-haves; demonstrable understanding of robust software development principles
- Understanding of the interplay between software and hardware behavior and performance (GPUs, CPUs, networking)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications
- Genuine desire to help customers achieve their goals, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills; prior experience in deep, durable customer-facing technical roles
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary, dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities

**Nice-to-have**

- Experience with additional programming languages (PyTorch, Rust, Go)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with OpenStack and/or Slurm
- Knowledge of network operating systems and hardware (Arista, Cisco, Mellanox) and network engineering (especially switching)
- Familiarity with AI/HPC networking protocols (RoCE and/or InfiniBand)
- Demonstrable experience with performance characterization and profiling, especially for processors, memory systems, and networks
- Experience with kernel debugging
- Experience with LLM deployments, even at small scale
- Background in infrastructure design, SLAs, system design, and incident response
- Field Applications Engineering or similar hardware-focused customer engineering experience

#### Why us?

- **Competitive pay & perks** –because great work deserves great rewards.
- **Work on your terms** – flexible hours and remote-friendly culture.
- **Fast lanes,** **no red tape** – flat hierarchies and rapid decision-making
- **Make it happen** - your ideas aren’t just heard – they become reality.
- **Right place, right time** –be part of our growth story and build a career-defining legacy.
- **Global by design** – work with a diverse, international team across Germany and the US.
- **Work with the best** – work alongside exceptional engineers and raise the bar together.

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://germanydevjobs.com/jobs/turba-labs-turbalance-forward-deployed-engineer-dtn6gik: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

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