AI Engineer

• A completed master's degree in AI or Computer Science
• 2–5 years of experience with AI/ML solutions in production environments (preferably within enterprise domains such as CIA)
• Consultant mindset or persona: you enjoy working together with the business to conceive and build solutions
• Strong software engineering foundation with experience in production-grade Python
• Experience with Docker and container-based development
• Cloud experience, preferably with Azure
• Familiar with API integrations and CI/CD deployment flows
• Accustomed to switching between tech and non-tech teams, challenging stakeholders, and building domain understanding

Your strength in collaboration:

• You think in terms of possibilities and concrete solutions, not just models
• You communicate clearly with developers, data scientists, and business stakeholders within CIA
• You are analytically sharp, pragmatic in your approach, and technically strong in execution
• You build connection with the domain to create solutions that truly land

Why you fit at CIA:

• NLP experience or pipelines is a plus

Goede beheersing van de Nederlandse taal is vereist voor deze functie/ Proficiency in Dutch (spoken and written) is required for this role. 

• A gross monthly salary of at least a maximum of € 5,216-  €7,843  depending on your work experience, based on 40 hours
• A fixed 13th month; part of it is paid out monthly and part in January of the following year. Or, you can use it towards a FLEX & BOOST goal of your choice! Click here to read more about it
• An annual individual and collective increase in accordance with our CAO
• € 1500 per year in availability budget that you may use at your own discretion for, for example, training, coaching, and courses
• Flexible days off: our colleagues may decide for themselves (in consultation with the manager) how they manage their leave
• A good work-life balance (such as 2 days in the office, 3 days at home, transition leave, exchanging a public holiday for a holiday of your religious or cultural preference)
• Home office workshop to optimally set up your workspace at home, including a mobile phone & laptop, of course
• 50% discount on our products and services, so you can browse the internet, call, and stream affordably
• Good travel expense reimbursement: you receive full reimbursement for your public transport costs or € 0.23 per kilometer if you travel by car. Prefer to come by bike? Then you can claim our bicycle allowance of € 0.40 per kilometer
• Possibility to purchase a lease bike that KPN contributes to monthly (with an indefinite contract): from city bikes to e-bikes and from racing bikes to speed-pedelecs; you choose what you ride
• Excellent pension conditions: a total contribution of 25% of your pensionable salary, of which KPN contributes 17.5% and you 7.5%

Corporate Insights & Analytics (CIA) is the data and AI engine within KPN. With about 40 professionals — from developers and data scientists to consultants, data engineers, scrum masters, and product owners — we work across five Scrum teams on internal digital innovation. You will become part of the AI for Corporate team within Group Business Services, a close-knit and entrepreneurial group of six AI specialists building AI solutions for HR & Finance. Within the same department, you will also work closely with the Anaplan, Oracle Reporting, Managed Dashboarding, and Data teams, as well as with KPN’s rapidly growing AI community of 50+ AI engineers and data scientists.

Are you an AI engineer who switches between business stakeholders and technical teams just as easily? Someone who gets energy from co-creating with the business, understanding processes, spotting opportunities, and both conceiving and building solutions? Then we are looking for you! As a Medior AI Engineer in our AI for Corporate team:

• You will design and build Generative AI and NLP solutions that make internal processes in HR & Finance smarter, faster, and AI-Native.
• You will work on concrete use cases such as AI agents for HR/Finance, automated invoice scanning, approval workflows, and predictive models.
• You will take independent ownership of features — from idea to production — with a focus on scalable, reliable, and maintainable AI services.
• You are a bridge builder between tech and non-tech, you dare to challenge, you ask critical questions, and you build strong domain connection and understanding.
• You combine AI expertise with a production mindset and software engineering quality.

Team & work model

We work hybrid with flexible home-working options. We meet each other on Mondays in Rotterdam and on Thursdays in Amsterdam. Additionally, we regularly organize AI knowledge-sharing and community events.