4 days ago
Hengelo, NetherlandsMid Level
Responsibilities
- Deploy, update, maintain, and optimize AI applications and developer tools on on-premise container orchestration platforms.
- Build and maintain air-gapped Retrieval-Augmented Generation infrastructure, including local data pipelines, chunking, and vector indexing.
- Configure local model-serving tools and flexible routing between locally hosted models.
- Support multi-agent frameworks, local memory systems, and interfaces for agents to call external tools.
- Implement locally hosted monitoring and tracing dashboards for token usage, latency, and infrastructure costs.
- Implement AI safety and security controls against prompt injection and to enforce data compartmentalization and authorization levels.
Requirements
- Good experience with Linux environments, containerization, and container orchestration in an on-premise data-center setting.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience building and integrating local APIs; experience with other systems languages or scripting is preferred.
- Conceptual understanding of vector indexing, embeddings, and large language models, preferably with hobby or project experience using open-source tools.
- Excellent written and spoken Dutch and English.
- Successful completion of the national security screening Verklaring van Geen Bezwaar is required.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid work arrangement in Hengelo, balancing home working with collaboration at High Tech Systems Park.
- Employment conditions under the CAO Metalelektro collective agreement.
- 40 vacation days per year, consisting of 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days.
- Professional development opportunities and budget to become an expert in AI infrastructure.
- Opportunity to work with state-of-the-art Generative AI technology in a high-security enterprise environment.
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About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.