IFS

Senior Software Engineer, AI Agents

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6 hours ago
’s-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build session persistence, resumption, hand-over, reasoning-trail retention, and identity- and entitlement-aware context resolution.
  • Develop retrieval and grounding across structured records and documents while optimizing cost and latency.
  • Build document intelligence for manuals, engineering drawings, certification directives, and contracts with extracted and citable information.
  • Develop agentic runtimes for multi-step work, tool use, human escalation decisions, and integrations with business systems.
  • Support speech, image, and text inputs as first-class modalities.
  • Build an evaluation harness that validates AI output quality and autonomy claims before release.
  • Create a language interface for scheduling and optimization engines.
  • Implement security controls covering prompt injection, personal data, guardrails, auditing, and data residency.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience personally building or serving as a core builder of live production systems used by real users.
  • Experience with service-to-service integration and orchestration using n8n, Temporal, MuleSoft, Apache Camel, or Boomi.
  • Production backend experience with Go and Python; Go, Java, or similar production experience is expected.
  • Experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS solutions and AI-native products or applications.
  • Experience delivering production-grade GenAI solutions, including RAG pipelines, hybrid retrieval, embeddings, agent orchestration, and tool usage.
  • Experience with Pydantic AI, LangChain, MCP, MCP development, and plan-based agentic software development.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CNCF technologies, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Production experience operating API gateways or API products such as Kong or Tyk.
  • Experience building or using evaluation frameworks to validate AI output quality before shipping.
  • Preferred qualifications include optimizing AI services for latency and cost and experience with specification-driven development.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work opportunities support different needs and lifestyles while maintaining inclusive workplace collaboration.
  • The role offers participation in a global, diverse environment focused on innovation, sustainability, and meaningful worldwide impact.
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About IFS

5,001-10,000 employees

IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.

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