AI-Native Staff Engineer: Scalable AI Systems

Carv; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid setup

Stock options

MacBook Pro + AI tooling budget

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Carv is hiring an AI Native Staff Engineer to build agentic AI systems in the recruitment space, with ownership over production-grade features from end to end. You will translate product problems into scalable AI-powered solutions, shaping architecture and evaluating real-world impact, while mentoring engineers and setting technical direction.

Join a high-velocity team that ships often, works with experienced SaaS leadership, and balances performance, reliability, and cost.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record shipping large-scale production systems.
• Experience owning architecture across services.
• Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, distributed systems, data modeling.
• Production AI systems experience with LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship AI-powered product features end-to-end.
• Architect systems where LLMs, agents, and traditional software work together.
• Implement RAG pipelines and tool-using agents.
• Improve reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Mentor engineers on AI-native workflows.

Skills

LLM usage

Agent orchestration

Production systems

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Vector databases

Embeddings pipelines

APIs

Job description

Carv is hiring an AI Native Staff Engineer to build agentic AI systems in the recruitment space, with ownership over production-grade features from end to end. You will translate product problems into scalable AI-powered solutions, shaping architecture and evaluating real-world impact, while mentoring engineers and setting technical direction.

Join a high-velocity team that ships often, works with experienced SaaS leadership, and balances performance, reliability, and cost.