Lead AI & Optimization Engineer for Live Operations

Vacaturebank; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 62,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Electric lease car

Mobility allowance

MacBook or Windows laptop

Claude Code premium seat

25 vacation days

8% holiday pay

Job summary

Lionsville seeks an AI & Optimisation Engineer to design the intelligence layer powering live operations in maritime, logistics and critical infrastructure. You will translate domain knowledge into a semantic model, build knowledge graphs, and craft optimization-driven decision logic with measurable outcomes.

You will combine machine learning with robust software architecture, defend models, and collaborate with senior teams. The role is based in The Hague, with occasional travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Ownership mindset with clear communication to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with AI in production or live operations.
• Semantic and relationship modelling—ontology and knowledge graphs.
• Expertise in optimization, scheduling, routing, or constraint-based decision logic.
• Applied ML with evaluation, baselines and deployment considerations.

Responsibilities

• Own the intelligence layer of platforms that recommend actions in live operations.
• Model relationships across heterogeneous systems to enable fast, traversable queries.
• Build and maintain the decision logic for scheduling, allocation and routing.
• Apply ML where appropriate, and justify its use or avoidance.

Skills

Ownership

AI knowledge

Semantic modelling

Knowledge graphs

Optimization / OR

Applied machine learning

Software architecture

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Master's in CS/OR/Applied Math/Physics

Job description

Lionsville seeks an AI & Optimisation Engineer to design the intelligence layer powering live operations in maritime, logistics and critical infrastructure. You will translate domain knowledge into a semantic model, build knowledge graphs, and craft optimization-driven decision logic with measurable outcomes.

You will combine machine learning with robust software architecture, defend models, and collaborate with senior teams. The role is based in The Hague, with occasional travel to client sites.