Senior AI Engineer

Location: Woerden, Utrecht (50/50 hybrid working model)

Salary: Up to €85,000 (DOE)

An exciting role has opened for an Energy-tech startup based in the Netherlands, building a B2B energy trading platform. We're now continuing the expansion of a high performing engineering team with a Senior AI Engineer, who can take ownership of how AI behaves across the product ecosystem.

The role sits within engineering, but carries a clear mandate: be the technical authority on AI systems, agentic workflows, LLM behaviour, tooling, and AI engineering standards.

The right candidate will:

• Deep hands-on experience building production-grade agentic systems
• Strong backend/software engineering fundamentals
• Operational thinking around reliability, observability, security, and evaluation
• The ability to mentor and elevate engineers with varying levels of AI maturity
• Have an interest, prior experience or some sort of affinity in the energy space.
• Not be afraid to have a voice in the team, take ownership and responsibility, whilst having a direct influence on the growth of others (sharing your knowledge and supporting those around you)

Technical skillset:

• Production experience with LLMs and agentic systems
• Strong understanding of tool/skill design, orchestration, prompting, and context management
• Experience with AI evaluation, metrics, observability, and experimentation
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, testing, CI/CD)
• Awareness of the fast-moving AI ecosystem and emerging frameworks/models
• A pragmatic engineering mindset focused on reliability and maintainability, not demos

Important:

You must be based in the Netherlands already to qualify for this role.

This company does not offer HSM VISA support at this time.

If this role sounds like something you can excel in, please apply directly, alterntaively, email with your CV attached to n.orzelek@oakwellhampton.com or call +31 208 087 116 📞