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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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5 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Investigate customer processes, data, systems, and pain points with users and domain experts, translating ambiguous questions into requirements, success criteria, and an initial deliverable.
  • Build and test generative AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, agents, and conventional software components with real users and realistic data.
  • Develop APIs, data flows, authentication, and integrations with existing applications and customer systems.
  • Bring solutions reliably into production through automated testing, AI evaluations, security, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, live-launch support, and stabilization.
  • Measure quality and usage, collect user feedback, support technical adoption, and turn recurring lessons into reusable components, evaluation frameworks, and implementation approaches.
  • Take technical leadership for the AI solution while collaborating with data engineers, architects, consultants, security officers, and customer teams.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering foundation with experience in programming, APIs, integrations, version control, and testing, demonstrated through work, internships, research, open source, or personal projects.
  • Experience with or demonstrable interest in LLMs, RAG, evaluation, and agentic workflows, together with judgment about when conventional software logic is more appropriate.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into working solutions, make assumptions explicit, and improve solutions using real data and user feedback.
  • Willingness and ability to work directly with customers and end users and explain technical choices clearly.
  • Ownership of quality and outcomes beyond a successful demo, including testing, deployment, usage, stabilization, security, privacy, reliability, and Responsible AI.
  • Academic or higher-professional-education level in a technical field, or equivalent experience; strong English communication skills and Dutch communication skills for many assignments.
  • Curiosity, learning ability, and motivation to build user-focused software; experience with every listed technology is not required.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary aligned with experience and opportunities for growth.
  • Permanent contract from the start and a collaborative, motivating work environment.
  • Tailored training, leadership development, certification opportunities, and continued AI learning.
  • Choice of an electric lease car or mobility allowance, plus access to multiple mobility providers through one app.
  • 30 vacation days with the option to purchase additional days.
  • Personal well-being budget and access to the OpenUp well-being platform.
  • Meaningful customer assignments, coaching, and access to leading AI tools and a global professional network.
  • Hybrid flexibility, working at customer sites, in the Amsterdam office, and from home where possible.

Tech Stack

AzureDockerFastAPIGitHub ActionsPythonSQL

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