
We’re building the AI operating system for manufacturing service. The service business offers manufacturing companies a major strategic opportunity: it can contribute up to 50% of revenue and is also characterised by significantly higher margins than new business. To tap this potential in the long term, scalable processes and the effective use of existing product and process knowledge are crucial.
Our AI operating system for manufacturing service enables the automation of service processes such as ordering spare parts, planning on-site visits by service technicians or answering technical questions. Our AI agents are end-to-end integrated into the customer's IT systems and based on existing expert knowledge. As a result, service employees can focus on the truly complex cases, and processing times for customers are significantly reduced.
We are a small team based in our office in Munich and describe ourselves as progressive, ambitious, magic. Our main goal is to be empowering: Towards our customers, investors, followers and mutually within our team.
About the Founders
We are Benedikt and Etienne, the co-founders of lytra.
Etienne has an academic background in mechanical engineering and innovation management. He has worked at industry leaders such as BMW or Mercedes-Benz and successfully founded Spreadly before starting lytra.
Benedikt has an academic background in computer science and media, as well as AI and was lead software engineer and one of the first employees at iAtros. In this role, he was instrumental to the company’s successful exit to Avi Medical.
We both share a deep commitment to speed, excellence and the persistence to pursue what others consider unreachable.
You will be working on
- Run customer communication: you will run technical workshop and onboarding sessions
- support sales in identifying technical needs to make each customer's service process work at a new level
- technical problem solving: add connectors, configure data pipelines and work with the customer IT to make the integration go smooth
- integrate customer feedback: contribute directly or be the customer representative
- Experience: Work experience in a technical role involving customer-facing work like solutions engineering, technical consulting, implementation engineering, or similar. You've shipped integrations that real users depend on.
- Technical Skills: Strong tech understanding. Experience with REST/GraphQL APIs, relational databases, and at least some familiarity with cloud infrastructure and Microsoft Windows. You can read logs, write queries, and debug distributed systems.
- Integration Experience: You've connected software before. You understand OAuth, API authentication patterns, and the messiness of real-world data.
- Communication: Fluent German is essential for customer interactions. Strong English for internal collaboration and documentation. You can explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders without losing accuracy.
- Ownership Mentality: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks. When something isn't working, you fix it or escalate clearly.
- Adaptability: Startup environment means priorities shift. You're comfortable with ambiguity and can make reasonable decisions without perfect information.