AI Frontline Engineer — Build Production AI (Hybrid EU)

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London or Amsterdam is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to push the frontier of AI across the business. You’ll work with ambitious internal teams and technology partners to translate complex workflows into durable AI-driven improvements.

This is a builder role: you’ll prototype prompts and workflow designs, reason about model behaviour, and present concrete insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems.
• Ability to reason clearly about model behaviour in complex workflows.
• Proven track record shipping production systems end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with internal teams and strategic partners to understand critical workflows, uncover failure modes, and identify the highest-impact opportunities for AI improvement.
• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to understand system behaviour and unlock real value - not just theoretical improvements.
• Synthesize findings for our Product Engineering and Platform teams, turning real usage patterns into clear, reproducible evaluations, benchmarks, and technical artefacts that improve product and platform quality.
• Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across multiple use cases - not just one-off fixes.
• Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate technical problem-solving with longer-term systemic improvement.
• Build relationships across our engineering and product communities, serving as a trusted technical partner to individuals and teams alike.

Skills

AI fundamentals

Strong software engineering

Prototyping and evaluation design

Cross-functional collaboration

Product mindset

Excellent communication

Tools

AWS

ECS

Lambda

DynamoDB

SQS

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London or Amsterdam is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to push the frontier of AI across the business. You’ll work with ambitious internal teams and technology partners to translate complex workflows into durable AI-driven improvements.

This is a builder role: you’ll prototype prompts and workflow designs, reason about model behaviour, and present concrete insights to non-technical stakeholders.