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Lead Project Engineer

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Hybrid

Mid level$3M raised

We are building the world's decision infrastructure: the strategic twin of every industrial organization for complex combinatorial problems. We unlocked what wasn't possible before: mapping reality with its levers and co…

Skills: Optimization Modeling, Project Management, Customer Success, Pre-sales, Data Analysis

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Lead Project Engineer

Circonomit

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany • Hybrid

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  • Full-time
  • bachelor degree
  • Competitive Base Salary, Equity (VSOP), Sports Membership
  • Posted 3d ago
  • ~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end development of optimization models for industrial customers, from initial pre-sales calls to final delivery. Act as the primary technical face to the customer, translating complex industrial realities into actionable decision models.

Requirements

Requires a technical degree in engineering, mathematics, or physics with at least 3 years of experience in industry and consulting. Must be proficient in German (C1) and English, with strong skills in complex modeling and customer-facing communication.

Full job description

We are building the world's decision infrastructure: the strategic twin of every industrial organization for complex combinatorial problems. We unlocked what wasn't possible before: mapping reality with its levers and constraints into a computer, then running n-dimensional optimization on critical value-chain decisions. Founded in 2022 by Dana (CEO) and Erik (CTO), we help Europe stay strong and the German Mittelstand make good decisions between machines, people, materials, orders, and market shifts. We move fast. We care. No patience for problems left unsolved.

You are not a manager. You are the engineer who owns customer success hands-on: you lead the development projects, you are the face to the customer, and together with an additional tech person you are deep in the use cases yourself, building the models. You like solving problems and selling through substance: you take over from the first customers calls taking their problem apart with them and solving them.

What you'll own
  • Be the engineering face to the customer from the first calls on: take apart their decision problem live, pre-sales, and turn it into a first mini model
  • Scope and lead the Proof of Value and the development project end-to-end; own the result, not just the planning and organisation.
  • Build the optimization models yourself together with our research engineers: large, real, decision-grade models on the customer's data and your's and their knowledge.
  • Translate messy industrial reality (capacity, capital, lead times, delivery reliability, throughput) into a clean optimization problem and back into a decision the customer can act on.
  • Work hand in hand with Dana in Sales: where she opens the door, you carry the substance, help close, and then deliver.
  • Help sharpen the delivery playbook: what makes a PoV convert, what makes a model trusted, what makes a Champion sell it internally
  • A technical analytical foundation by education: 'Wirtschaftsingenieur', 'Wirtschaftsinformatik', mechanical or industrial engineering, mathematics, physics, Operations Research, or similar. Non-negotiable, you sell and deliver at eye level with engineers, head of operations and controlling, in the COO and CFO Office.
  • You are strong in data understanding and outstanding in modelling: you build and own modelling (e.g large, complex models in Excel in prior consultancy project ) and enjoy it
  • Minimum of 3 years experience in the industry and consulting
  • You have run many projects in parallel, and the more there are, the more obsessed you get with structure and efficiency, so that you can run 10+ clients without dropping a ball or loosing your mind.
  • You like selling. Even though you are not responsible for cold outbound, you can run the early calls with customers yourself, scope their problem on the spot, and win them into development partnerships.
  • You read a P&L, talk OEE and inventory vs. service level with a plant manager, and keep the customer delighted while you deliver.
  • German at C1 or higher, full working English.
  • Ideally Cologne-based, or willing to relocate / work hybrid; optionally Munich or Stuttgart area or else. Open to find a way if we fit.
  • Direct line to the founders; you shape how we deliver and sell, side by side with Dana and Erik.
  • Skin in the game: competitive base salary and equity (VSOP).
  • Sports membership fully covered, we believe in good health when working hard.

How to apply:

Send us three projects or decisions that shaped how you see industrial decision-making: why they mattered and what you'd do differently today. Can't wait to chat!

"Hustle the day, analyse at night, reinforce something outstanding." Period.

Dana & Erik

Related keywords

OptimizationIndustrial EngineeringOperations ResearchExcelP&LOEEInventoryService LevelProof of ValueMittelstandValue-ChainCombinatorial ProblemsConsultingData Modeling

About Circonomit

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Building companies' decision infrastructure for simply better financial and sustainable optimizations

Industry
Software Development
Company size
2-10 employees
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
LinkedIn followers
2,954
Total funding
$3M

Giving businesses the ability to steer their org and make the right decisions by reengineering the root cause of inefficiencies in their systems.

Offices: Kronengasse 12, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50667, DE · Jülicher Straße 209, 3. OG, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia 52070, DE

ControllingFinancial OptimizationsData processingand SustainabilitySustainabilitySoftwareGreenTechEnvironmental EngineeringSaaSEnergy Efficiency
View all jobs at Circonomit

About Circonomit

LinkedInVisit site

Building companies' decision infrastructure for simply better financial and sustainable optimizations

Industry
Software Development
Company size
2-10 employees
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
LinkedIn followers
2,954
Total funding
$3M

Giving businesses the ability to steer their org and make the right decisions by reengineering the root cause of inefficiencies in their systems.

Offices: Kronengasse 12, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50667, DE · Jülicher Straße 209, 3. OG, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia 52070, DE

ControllingFinancial OptimizationsData processingand SustainabilitySustainabilitySoftwareGreenTechEnvironmental EngineeringSaaSEnergy Efficiency
View all jobs at Circonomit

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