1 day ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsMid Level
Responsibilities
- Deploy, update, maintain, and optimize AI container applications and developer tools on on-premise container-orchestration platforms.
- Build and maintain air-gapped Retrieval-Augmented Generation infrastructure, including local data pipelines, text chunking, and vector indexing for internal codebases.
- Set up local model-serving tooling and help develop a routing layer that switches between local models based on task complexity.
- Support local multi-agent frameworks, memory systems, and interfaces for agents to call external tools.
- Implement local 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, container orchestration, and on-premise data-center infrastructure.
- 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 supported by hobby or project work with open-source tools.
- Excellent spoken and written Dutch and English.
- Successful completion of the required national security screening (Verklaring van Geen Bezwaar).
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with collaboration at the High Tech Systems Park in Hengelo and an expected weekly team meeting at the Hengelo office.
- Employment under the CAO Metalelektro collective labor agreement.
- 40 vacation days per year, consisting of 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days.
- Professional development opportunities and budget to grow as an AI infrastructure expert.
- Full-time employment 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.