Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer, Python / LLMs / RAG / Terraform, Rotterdam (hybrid)

KEY POINTS

• Permanent, full time, mid level (around four to five years ideal)
• Hybrid: two to three days in the Rotterdam office, one to two days at client sites, one day at home
• Salary €66,000 to €78,000, with room for more for an exceptional person
• Structured salary progression with steps every year
• Build AI that runs in production for maritime, offshore, manufacturing and logistics companies
• Real production work, not demos on the side
• Lead small project teams of three or four and help guide junior engineers
• Work closely with the founders and senior client stakeholders
• Fluent Dutch and English essential

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is a fast growing AI specialist working with industrial companies in maritime and offshore, manufacturing, logistics and energy. They help clients work out where AI makes a real difference, build the solution and train their teams to use it.

The team is small, founder led and ambitious. They build custom AI that runs inside their clients' existing, often traditional IT, and they measure everything, from answer quality to extraction accuracy to the return a client actually sees.

THE ROLE

This is a forward deployed engineering role in all but name. You sit with clients, understand how they work, turn that into a solution design and build it all the way to production. You typically run two projects at once with a team of three or four, working alongside the tech lead.

They want someone who doesn't need to be told what to do. Someone with their own ideas on where AI is going and how to apply it in industries that haven't seen anything like it yet.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING

• Turning client conversations and workshops into a solution design, then building it
• Building end to end AI applications, front end and back end, and taking them into production
• Integrating LLMs into clients' existing systems and data
• Building RAG, document extraction and agentic workflows with tools like LangChain, vector databases and knowledge graphs
• Provisioning cloud infrastructure with Terraform
• Measuring quality and impact, and presenting the results to client stakeholders
• Leading small project teams and helping junior engineers grow
• Bringing new solution ideas to the industries they serve

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Several years building software end to end, front end and back end. Around four to five is ideal, but what you have shipped matters more than years
• Python as your default, with clean, well tested code
• LLMs in production: RAG, prompt engineering, orchestration or agentic workflows
• Cloud experience and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Startup or scale up experience, owning your work from start to finish
• Confident with clients and able to explain complex things simply
• Fluent Dutch and English
• Right to work in the Netherlands and commutable to Rotterdam

DESIRABLE, NOT ESSENTIAL

• AI or software solutions built for maritime, offshore, manufacturing or logistics
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers
• DevOps experience: CI/CD, monitoring, deployment
• A master's in AI, Computer Science, Engineering or similar
• Your own side projects, or experience founding something

TO APPLY

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