Senior AI Engineer

• €5,850–€7,150 gross per month based on 40 hours

• 8% holiday allowance

• Contract for 32 to 40 hours per week

• A choice of a lease car or mobility allowance, on top of your salary

• 27 vacation days and 4 study days

• €3,600 personal development budget per year and room for certifications

• Hybrid working with flexible working hours

• Good pension scheme

• Growth opportunities in a specialist track

• International knowledge and development opportunities, combined with a close-knit Dutch team

You launch AI projects from a content-driven perspective and lead them toward a satisfied customer.

Building a strong model is one thing. Showing a customer what AI can do for them, devising the right solution, and getting it reliably into production: that is your craft.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you combine depth in machine learning and MLOps with depth in generative AI, LLMs, and agents. You are involved from the very first customer conversation and, as a delivery lead, hold ultimate responsibility for the delivery.

• Setting up new projects: from the first conversation to the proposal, with support from sales. You inspire the customer through technical expertise, devise the solution, and establish a solid project plan.

• Leading the delivery: as a delivery lead, you handle the project management, provide daily leadership for the execution, and perform stakeholder management.

• Making technical choices and co-building: you design the architecture of data, ML, and agent systems and participate in the building process yourself. Working with an FDE in the team, you collaboratively develop the agentic design.

• Moving to production and keeping it running: MLOps, monitoring, security, and maintainability are not afterthoughts for you.

• Elevating the team: you mentor colleagues and help develop standards.

We focus on retail and e-commerce, finance, and utilities. Think of:

• Forecasts that planners dare to steer by, from retail assortment to grid load.

• Intelligent document processing, such as KYC files or inspection reports, with traceable sources.

• Agents that prepare work in customer service and back office, with evals and guardrails.

• Computer vision, such as in the fitness industry, where we recognize unsafe situations in unmanned 24/7 locations.

The challenge lies not only in the model, but also in reliability, integration, and practical operation.

• Not individual secondment. You work on projects on behalf of adesso, with a team behind you.

• No notebook graveyard. A model is only finished when it is running in production and being used.

• No GenAI just because it's possible. Sometimes a classic model is better, sometimes an LLM; you choose what fits.

• No work on call. You think along from the customer's request, not just once the design is already fixed.

You will become part of our AI Engineering team: AI engineering consultants in two roles. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) owns the customer problem and designs the solution, including the agentic architecture. The AI Engineer dives deep into building, data, MLOps, and scale, and thinks along from the customer's request regarding the right approach.

You are given space to shape your own work, but you are never solely responsible for all specialisms.

Unsure which role fits you best? Just apply; we will look together. 

Why adesso? Because with us, you can truly help build.

At adesso Netherlands, it is about more than just technology. We build smart solutions that actually add value for our customers. No endless experiments or AI just because it's hip, but technology that works and makes an impact.

We are part of the international adesso Group, with over 11,500 colleagues at more than 60 locations. At the same time, we are a relatively small and personal team in the Netherlands, with short lines, a lot of freedom, and room for individual initiative.

Large enough to make an impact, small enough to feel the difference.

AI-native: we embrace AI, also in our own work

We believe that AI is fundamentally changing how we build software, work with data, and help customers. That is why we don't build isolated experiments, but data platforms, AI-first applications, and agentic solutions that truly become part of business processes.

That also applies to how we work ourselves. With our Agentic Delivery approach and our own tools, you can truly fly:

• Context and knowledge base: agents work with what is actually happening at the client, and knowledge and decisions remain traceable for both human and agent.

• AgentOps and governance: visibility into what agents do and control over what they are allowed to do, so they work safely and within the rules.

• adSCAILE: our own framework with which you build together with AI agents—integrated, safe, and traceable—in cycles of two to four days instead of sprints of weeks.

You use these tools daily and help develop them further. Moreover, adesso is a Select Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network. And we remain critical: not everything needs to be done with AI. The best solution always comes first.

And perhaps most importantly: the people

You will join a team where craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, and knowledge sharing are central. You will work with experienced specialists and grow in technical vision and in responsibility for client relationships.

We love colleagues who are curious, share knowledge, and help each other forward. People who are good at their craft, but also enjoy collaborating. With us, you get trust, responsibility, and the freedom to actually execute ideas.

You don't have to meet every technical requirement. We are primarily curious about what you have built, what choices you have made, and where you want to grow.

A CV or LinkedIn profile is enough to start the conversation. This is followed by an introduction, a technical interview, and a practical case.

At adesso, you don't just work on the technology of tomorrow. You also get the space to help determine how we build it.