Generative AI Engineer

Oakwell Hampton Group; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily healthy meals

Gym membership

Regular company events

Job summary

Oakwell Hampton Group in Rotterdam is seeking a Founding AI Engineer to lead the building of AI systems that directly influence revenue, operations, and strategy.

You will work closely with executive leadership, own the technical direction from day one, and shape an ambitious AI-first platform serving hundreds of thousands of customers across multiple markets. This is a founder-minded opportunity for a builder who thrives on ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and shipping production AI systems with measurable business impact.
• Deep expertise across LLMs, agentic workflows, AI orchestration frameworks and modern AI infrastructure.
• Experience in startups, scale-ups, or founder environments with ownership and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Owns commercial outcomes and defines what gets built next.
• Shape AI strategy and technical direction for the company.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to deliver high-impact AI systems.

Skills

Production AI systems

LLMs

Agentic workflows

AI orchestration

AI infrastructure

Startup ownership

Commercial awareness

Tools

AI orchestration frameworks

Job description

Founding AI Engineer | Build the Future of AI-Driven Commerce

Rotterdam, Netherlands (5 Days On-Site)

€100M Revenue | Over Half a Million Customers | AI-First Scale-Up

What if you could build AI systems that directly influence the revenue, operations and future direction of a €100M business?

I'm working with one of Europe's most ambitious technology companies as they rebuild their entire platform from the ground up using AI. This isn't a business experimenting with AI. AI is becoming the operating system of the company.

From dynamic pricing and procurement automation to intelligent content generation and customer journey optimisation, every core system is being redesigned for an agentic future.

They're now looking for a Founding AI Engineer to work directly alongside the executive leadership team, helping define what gets built next and owning the commercial outcomes that follow.

This is a rare opportunity for a builder who combines exceptional technical ability with founder-level commercial instinct.

What the successful Founding AI Engineer will need:

• Proven experience building and shipping production AI systems with measurable business impact.
• Deep expertise across LLMs, agentic workflows, AI orchestration frameworks and modern AI infrastructure..
• A track record of identifying opportunities independently and turning them into working products.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to evaluate business impact before writing code.
• Experience within startups, scale-ups, or founder environments where ownership and autonomy were expected.
• An obsession with building and solving problems rather than simply implementing requirements.

What's on offer for the successful Founding AI Engineer:

• Direct access to senior leadership and complete ownership from day one.
• The opportunity to shape the AI strategy and technical direction of a company serving over half a million customers across 14 international markets.
• High-impact problems spanning agentic procurement, pricing optimisation, AI-powered customer journeys, content infrastructure and internal automation.
• A team of 120+ people across 20+ nationalities building at exceptional speed.
• Daily healthy meals, gym membership benefits and regular company events.

This isn't a traditional AI Engineering role.

It's an opportunity for a founder-minded builder to operate at scale, solve commercially significant problems and help create one of Europe's most ambitious AI-first businesses.