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 setup

28 vacation days

Job summary

Enjins, an AI development partner based in Utrecht and Berlin, is looking for a Lead AI Engineer to own client engagements, architect AI solutions, and deliver production‑grade systems. You will shape the engineering team, set Data Platform and MLOps standards, and mentor engineers across multiple client portfolios, ensuring reliable, scalable outcomes.

Join a climate‑focused, cloud‑level engineering culture that values practical product thinking and hands‑on leadership to drive impactful AI in

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and scaling data & AI in production.
• Strong software fundamentals and production‑grade code.
• Fluent English, eligible to work in the Netherlands.
• Experience leading MLOps/LLMOps architectures.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Mentor engineers and weigh in on hiring, team growth, and accounts.
• Push our engineering practice forward, including agentic coding workflows.
• Elevate our product mindset to ensure we build the right things, not just more things.

Skills

Data & AI production

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Mentoring engineers

Docker & Kubernetes

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