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Furo

Forward Deployed Hardware Engineer

München · Full-time

€70K–€100K

Seed · $4.6M · 58d ago Posted 2d ago
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Why join Furo?

Envision a fleet of factory batteries trading power and trimming peak costs unattended, and Furo of Munich, a battery software company, is building the brain for it. Utilities and manufacturers would rely on it every hour, a lot of daily dependence on one software layer. Neo and TQ Ventures are among 4 backers of its $5M seed, and 5 open roles across 3 teams give it room to scale.

JustBacked's take, based on Furo's own site and its funding and hiring data.

Our software decides every 15 minutes what a battery should do. You make sure it actually does it:

  • Integrate our optimizer with battery controllers over Modbus, MQTT and vendor APIs

  • Commission systems on site until the battery follows the plan to the kW

  • Build our own edge box on standard hardware (think Raspberry Pi on a DIN rail)

You Will Have Fun If You Are

Builder with agency

  • Get-shit-done mentality: you'd rather drive to the site than wait for a support ticket

  • High ownership, from the vendor call to go-live

Mission-driven

  • Passionate about energy transition and climate impact

  • Thrive in early-stage chaos (e.g. "Can you be in Ingolstadt tomorrow at 8?")

You Won't Have Fun If You

  • Like to follow processes. We don't have any.

  • Want to work remotely. We're in the office 5 days/week, and regularly on site at customers.

  • Want to stay on one side of the wall. This is half software, half hardware.

Qualifications

  • Solid Python and embedded Linux (networking, VPN, remote updates)

  • Industrial protocols: Modbus TCP/RTU, MQTT, REST

  • Electrical basics: inverter, BMS, grid connection point. Bonus: PV/battery commissioning

  • Fluent German, because installers and customers speak German

Don't worry if you don't have all of the above. We prefer fast learners over high experience.

Perks

  • Super small team, super early: you shape the culture

  • You define the hardware: which box we ship and how it's built is your call

  • Direct customer access: see your code move a megawatt-hour battery

  • €70–100K salary + equity as full time · €24/h as working student