AI Engineer - Network
Koninklijke KPN N.V.4 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, develop, maintain, and operate agentic AI systems for autonomous network optimization and decision-making.
- Design scalable AI/ML pipelines with emphasis on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Define and implement monitoring, testing, governance, and production-quality strategies for agentic AI solutions.
- Integrate agentic AI solutions into real-time network environments with network domain experts, data engineers, and software teams.
- Translate network objectives into data-driven, self-adapting models using reinforcement learning and emerging AI tools.
- Own system design, software quality, runtime behavior, and production operations.
- Track innovations in agentic AI, reinforcement learning, and telecom network automation.
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 applying AI/ML techniques, 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, scalable services, and reliable platforms.
- Interest in reinforcement learning and agentic AI, including exploration of emerging frameworks and 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.
- Guaranteed 13th-month salary, with an option to allocate it toward a FLEX & BOOST goal.
- Annual individual and collective salary increases under the collective labor agreement.
- €1,500 annual personal development budget for training, coaching, or courses.
- Flexible leave days and work-life-balance support, including transition leave and the ability to exchange holidays.
- Hybrid work arrangement with two office days and three work-from-home days; the stated schedule includes mandatory Tuesday attendance in Amersfoort and Wednesday attendance in Amsterdam, plus client-office work on Friday.
- Home-office setup workshop, mobile phone, and laptop.
- 50% discount on KPN products and services.
- Travel reimbursement covering public transport, car travel, and cycling mileage.
- Option to purchase a KPN co-funded lease bike with a permanent contract.
- Pension contribution totaling 23% of pensionable salary, with KPN contributing 16%.
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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).