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 systems, validate software quality, monitor runtime behavior, and take production ownership.
- Build and maintain scalable AI/ML pipelines focused on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Implement monitoring, testing, and governance strategies for production 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.
- Stay current with agentic AI, reinforcement learning, and telecom network automation innovations.
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, learning, 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 a FLEX & BOOST alternative, plus annual individual and collective salary increases under the CLA.
- €1,500 annual sustainable employability budget for training, coaching, courses, or other development.
- Flexible leave days and work-life-balance benefits, including hybrid working.
- Scheduled work locations are Amsterdam on Monday, Tuesday in Amersfoort, Amsterdam on Wednesday and Thursday, and a client office on Friday; Tuesday and Wednesday attendance is mandatory at the stated locations.
- Home-office webshop support, including a mobile phone and laptop.
- 50% discount on KPN products and services.
- Full public-transport reimbursement or mileage allowances for car and bicycle travel.
- Lease-bike option for employees with a permanent contract.
- Pension contribution totaling 25% of pensionable salary, with KPN contributing 17.5% and the employee 7.5%.
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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).