AI Engineer

Build AI agents, RAG systems, evals and MCP servers that run in production.

Location
Groningen, hybrid
Type
Full-time
Team
Delivery

As an AI Engineer you design and build the AI systems our clients depend on: agents that take real actions, retrieval over messy document sets, and MCP servers that connect models to internal tools. You work on a project from the first conversation with the client through to the system running in production.

You care about whether a model does the job reliably, so you write evals before you tune prompts and you trace what happens once users arrive. You work closely with our full-stack and platform engineers, and you use coding agents in your own work with the same review standards as the rest of the team.

What you will do

  • Design and build AI agents with tool use, approval steps and clear failure handling
  • Build retrieval pipelines over documents, databases and internal systems
  • Write and maintain eval suites that run on every release
  • Build MCP servers that expose client systems to agents as secure, typed tools
  • Choose models and hosting based on quality, cost and data requirements
  • Monitor systems in production and improve them using traces and user feedback
  • Explain trade-offs and results clearly to clients and colleagues

What you bring

  • Several years building software in Python, with services running in production
  • Hands-on experience building applications on top of large language models
  • A practical understanding of retrieval, embeddings and vector search
  • Experience testing non-deterministic systems, or a strong wish to do it properly
  • Comfort working with APIs, databases and background jobs
  • Clear written and spoken English

Nice to have

  • Experience with LangGraph, PydanticAI or a similar agent framework
  • Experience self-hosting open models
  • Familiarity with Langfuse, Promptfoo or other LLM observability and eval tools
  • Dutch, for conversations with some of our clients

What you will work with.

All technologies

How hiring works.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    A short call to get to know each other, talk about what you are looking for and answer your questions. We reply to every application, whatever the outcome.

  2. 02

    Practical conversation

    We talk through real work: a system you built, a problem we recently solved or a small piece of code. No puzzles or whiteboard riddles.

  3. 03

    Meet the team

    You spend time with the people you would work with, see how we run projects and get a feel for the day to day.

  4. 04

    Offer

    If it is a good fit on both sides, we make a clear written offer and agree a start date that works for you.

Apply.

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