Agentic AI Engineer - Open Source & Remote Contract

Bellingcat; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 71,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Bellingcat is seeking a Contract AI Software Engineer to help build agentic systems for open-source researchers and journalists. This project-based role supports the Innovation Unit to design, deploy and refine AI agents and agentic workflows powered by open-source models.

You should be based in a timezone with overlap with Europe-based teams. The role offers flexible remote work, with a 12-month initial contract and a competitive daily rate.

Qualifications

• Hands-on full-stack development experience, including maintaining infrastructure, developing server-side data workflows and creating front-end interfaces for a variety of users.
• Experience with agentic AI workflows and open-source harnesses.
• Experience with human-in-the-loop design with a strong focus on approval checks and feedback loops.
• Collaborative mindset and proven track record of partnering with non-technical teammates to co-design (public interest) technology.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, deploy, and monitor multi-agent workflows for the field of open source investigations.
• Develop agentic pipelines that prioritize human control and safety through human feedback loops, evaluation metrics, and agile experimentation in close collaboration with Bellingcat’s Innovation Unit.
• Architect and maintain cloud infrastructure for hosting LLM harnesses, coordinating agent activity, and monitoring agent behavior, using token-as-a-service providers for LLM models.
• Develop MCP servers and data bridges to connect agents to external open source research tools and databases.
• Create evaluation frameworks to measure the deterministic performance and reasoning capabilities of our open-source agentic pipelines.

Skills

Full-stack development

Server-side data workflows

Front-end interfaces

Agentic AI workflows

Human-in-the-loop design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Bellingcat is seeking a Contract AI Software Engineer to help build agentic systems for open-source researchers and journalists. This project-based role supports the Innovation Unit to design, deploy and refine AI agents and agentic workflows powered by open-source models.

You should be based in a timezone with overlap with Europe-based teams. The role offers flexible remote work, with a 12-month initial contract and a competitive daily rate.