Mission-Critical AI Engineer - Secure On-Site

Spektrum; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Spektrum is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and maintain AI/ML components and pipelines for mission-critical NATO NCIA projects. You will work at the intersection of applied machine learning, software engineering, and MLOps, delivering secure, well-documented AI solutions.

The role requires strong hands-on programming, deep ML knowledge, and experience with production-grade AI backends in secure environments. On-site work in The Hague with potential travel may be involved.

Qualifications

• End-to-end AI/ML pipelines: training, packaging, monitoring, lifecycle management.
• Hands-on programming and applied AI development experience.
• Solid understanding of ML concepts, model evaluation, and performance.
• Experience with pre-trained models, LLMs, and Generative AI.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and production-grade AI backends.
• MLOps/AIOps: version control, CI/CD, automation, build/release workflows.
• REST APIs and backend services (FastAPI, Pydantic).
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, cloud infra and orchestration tools (Airflow, Argo).
• Guardrails, observability, and monitoring for LLM-based systems.
• SQL and NoSQL databases.
• TypeScript/Node.js/Next.js (nice to have).
• Air-gapped environments experience.

Responsibilities

• Apply machine learning and data science techniques to new problems and datasets, evaluating model outcomes, performance, and data quality
• Identify issues in ML systems, models, pipelines, and datasets, implementing practical improvements
• Design, develop, test, document, refactor, and maintain moderately complex programs, scripts, and AI/ML components
• Apply agreed engineering standards, tools, and secure development practices
• Support AI/software lifecycle engineering, including requirements elicitation and automation for development, testing, release, deployment, and monitoring
• Define AI modules for integration builds and validate against functional, quality, security, and performance criteria
• Build, maintain, and improve data pipelines using ETL/ELT processes
• Monitor progress, report status, and communicate risks or blockers
• Contribute to technology assessments, roadmaps, and knowledge sharing

Skills

AI/ML pipelines

Programming

ML concepts

LLMs / Generative AI

MLOps

REST APIs

Secure environments

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Pydantic AI

FastAPI

Job description

Spektrum is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and maintain AI/ML components and pipelines for mission-critical NATO NCIA projects. You will work at the intersection of applied machine learning, software engineering, and MLOps, delivering secure, well-documented AI solutions.

The role requires strong hands-on programming, deep ML knowledge, and experience with production-grade AI backends in secure environments. On-site work in The Hague with potential travel may be involved.