Lead AI Engineer

Enjins; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 66,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation (VSOP)

Annual performance bonus

Hybrid work setup

28 vacation days

Job summary

Enjins, an AI-focused engineering partner, is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own client engagements and architect solutions that scale to production. You will mentor engineers, shape the team, and guide data and ML platform standards across multiple client projects.

You’ll own roadmaps, lead MLOps architectures, and translate complex tech decisions for non-technical stakeholders as you collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role is based in Utrecht with a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and scaling data & AI solutions in production environments.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; production-grade code and infrastructure know-how.
• Mastery of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience leading MLOps/LLMOps architectures.
• Proven experience taking LLM-based or agentic systems to production.
• Experience mentoring engineers, overseeing delivery, and managing client accounts.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into clear decisions for non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent in English and eligible to work in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Architect AI roadmaps with client leadership and own them through to production.
• Create and implement AI solution architectures to deliver roadmaps.
• Set and uphold Data Platform and MLOps standards across your client portfolio.
• Mentor engineers and participate in hiring, team growth, and accounts.
• Push engineering practice forward, sharing what works and elevating the team.
• Elevate our product mindset to ensure we build the right things, not just more things.

Skills

5+ years experience

Production-grade code

CI/CD

Data pipelines

MLOps/LLMOps

Cloud platforms

Mentoring engineers

Fluent English

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

We are AI builders

Since 2018, Enjins has done one thing: ship AI that works in production. From Utrecht and Berlin, we build machine learning systems, data infrastructure, and agentic AI layers for European tech companies, with a deliberate focus on climate and energy, where we believe the biggest technological shift of our generation should meet its most critical challenge.

We embed directly with the engineering teams of high-growth scale-ups like Crisp, PlanBlue, NextSense, and Groendus. We take ownership of the full technical lifecycle: from first architecture decision to a production-grade system running inside our partner's infrastructure, long after go-live.

The role

As Lead AI Engineer, you are the technical owner of client engagements. You architect the solution, ship it to production, and make sure it still performs a year later. Alongside the other Leads, you shape the engineering team and the way we build.

In practice:

• Design AI roadmaps with client leadership and own them through to production
• Create and implement the AI solution architectures to deliver on those roadmaps
• Set and uphold Data Platform and MLOps standards across your client portfolio, so systems stay healthy after handover
• Mentor engineers and weigh in on hiring, team growth, and accounts
• Push our engineering practice forward, including how we use agentic coding workflows to build faster without compromising reliability. We test, document, and share what works, so the whole team levels up
• Elevate our product mindset to ensure we build the right things, not just more things

Why a Lead role here, not somewhere else

You’ll work across more stacks, clouds, and frontier frameworks in a year than most engineers see in five, with the collective knowledge of the whole team behind you, not the isolation of freelance work. And because our clients build grid software, energy forecasting, and climate infrastructure, you develop real domain expertise in energy and climate systems on top of production-grade AI engineering.

In your first months you’ll join a client project alongside an experienced Enjins engineer, supported by a dedicated coach. Within half a year, you own the technical roadmap of at least one engagement, mentor engineers, and have a recognised voice in our Asset strategy.

What matters most: you think in systems, own outcomes end-to-end, and grow the people around you.

• 5+ years building and scaling data & AI solutions in production environments
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: you write production-grade code and know your way around infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, data pipelines)
• Mastery of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience leading MLOps/LLMOps architectures
• Proven experience taking LLM-based or agentic systems to production
• Experience mentoring engineers, overseeing delivery, and managing client accounts
• You can translate technical complexity into clear decisions for non-technical stakeholders
• Fluent in English and eligible to work in the Netherlands

We publish our salary ranges and keep terms straightforward. No surprises.

Compensation

• €5,950 - €7,800 gross per month (excl. holiday allowance, pension, bonus, equity, and AI-Leap benefits)
• Annual performance bonus of 1.5 months' salary
• Equity participation (VSOP)

Growth

• AI-Leap: our structured development programme with a dedicated certification budget and a specialised track for Leads
• 1-on-1 mentoring with our founders and external coaching to close your specific gaps

Team & culture

• Office on the Oudegracht in Utrecht (note: not yet fully accessible for individuals with physical disabilities); hybrid setup
• 28 vacation days, flexible across 3 national holidays
• Monthly team events and the annual two-day Enjins Summer Summit on AI Climate
• OV-First travel policy, fully covered; meat-free catering
• Apple MacBook Pro and the tools you need