AI Engineer - Network
Koninklijke KPN N.V.2 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, develop, and maintain agentic AI systems for autonomous network optimization and decision-making.
- Design scalable AI/ML pipelines and integrate models into reliable, real-time network software systems.
- Own production software quality, runtime behavior, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Implement monitoring, testing, governance, model-serving, and feedback-loop strategies for production AI solutions.
- Collaborate with network experts, data engineers, software teams, business stakeholders, and clients.
- Apply reinforcement learning and emerging AI approaches to translate network objectives into adaptive solutions.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background, including designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
- Solid experience with Python and/or Java and writing clean, testable, maintainable code.
- Hands-on production experience with AI/ML, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Experience with AI/ML frameworks and integrating models into larger software systems.
- Understanding of end-to-end AI systems, including data pipelines, model serving, monitoring, and feedback loops.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, containerization, CI/CD, and scalable services.
- Interest in reinforcement learning, agentic AI, emerging frameworks, and related research.
- Strong analytical, communication, adaptability, and ownership skills.
Benefits
- Gross monthly salary of €5.216 to €7.843 based on experience and a 40-hour workweek.
- Fixed 13th-month bonus with the option to allocate it to a FLEX & BOOST goal.
- Annual individual and collective salary increases under the Collective Labour Agreement.
- €1,500 annual sustainable employability budget for training, coaching, courses, or other development.
- Flexible leave days and work-life-balance benefits, including hybrid working.
- Home-office webshop support, including a mobile phone and laptop.
- Product and service discounts, commuting allowances, cycling allowance, and an optional lease bike for permanent employees.
- Pension contribution totaling 25% of pensionable salary, with KPN contributing 17.5%.
- Fixed work-location schedule: Monday Amsterdam, Tuesday mandatory Amersfoort, Wednesday mandatory Amsterdam, Thursday Amsterdam, and Friday at a client office.
- Candidates must already reside in the Netherlands.
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About Koninklijke KPN N.V.
Koninklijke KPN N.V. is the incumbent Dutch telecommunications provider, selling mobile, fixed internet and TV, and managed ICT and cloud services to consumers, SMEs, and enterprises. It operates nationwide fiber and 4G/5G networks and provides data, voice, and security solutions, plus wholesale access to other providers. KPN is a public company headquartered in Rotterdam and listed on Euronext Amsterdam (ticker KPN).