Senior Agentic AI Engineer (Netherlands)

Staffworx Limited; Amsterdam; Híbrido; GBP 100.000 - 134.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Staffworx Limited in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build and run production AI systems for enterprise clients. This hands-on role requires deep technical leadership in agentic AI, LLM orchestration, multi-agent systems and safety, with delivery experience in consultancy-like settings.

The position is permanent, home-based within the Netherlands with Amsterdam office days, offering challenging client work across sectors and opportunities to shape engineering

Formación

• 6–8 years in software or AI engineering or applied data engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, retrieval stacks and vector stores.
• Experience building multi-agent systems and agent orchestration.
• Strong Python, with production-grade workflows.
• Experience with at least one cloud AI ecosystem (Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, Bedrock or similar).
• Knowledge of semantic modelling or knowledge graphs is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Design and build LLM applications with modern orchestration patterns and evaluation loops.
• Develop multi-agent systems including planning, tool use and safety constraints.
• Create retrieval pipelines (embeddings, vector stores, RAG, search).
• Apply knowledge modelling to improve reasoning and data alignment.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise platforms via APIs and connectors.

Conocimientos

LLMs and embeddings

Multi-agent systems

Python production workflows

Cloud AI ecosystems

Semantic modelling & knowledge graphs

Prototype development

Client-facing delivery

Dutch language knowledge (nice-to-have

Descripción del empleo

Senior Agentic AI Engineer (Netherlands)

A fast-growing, engineering-led AI consultancy with industry recognised entrepreneurial leadership is hiring Senior Agentic AI Engineers to design, build and run production AI systems for its enterprise client base in retail, pharmaceutical, financial services and FMCG/Consumer Products.

Permanent | Home-based in the Netherlands | Amsterdam office for team days

The opportunity

Our client has more enterprise AI work than it can currently staff and is building out its permanent engineering team in the Netherlands. You will be the hands-on engineer in a small, senior client delivery team, working alongside a consultant and a delivery lead.

Together you take a loosely defined business problem through to a working, production-grade AI system that is safe, observable and maintainable. Evaluation, guardrails and monitoring are built in from day one. You will also help shape engineering standards and the reusable patterns the wider team builds on.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who still loves building, not a step into management.

What you'll do

Agentic and AI systems engineering

• Design and build LLM applications using modern orchestration patterns, prompt frameworks and evaluation loops
• Build multi-agent systems covering planning, delegation, tool use, safety constraints and monitoring
• Build retrieval pipelines: embeddings, vector stores, RAG and semantic search
• Apply knowledge modelling (ontologies, knowledge graphs) to improve reasoning and data alignment
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise platforms through APIs, tools and connectors
• Set the technical direction on your engagements and shape the architecture of client solutions

Discovery and solution design

• Turn ambiguous business needs into clear, practical engineering approaches
• Assess feasibility across data, systems and architecture
• Help shape use cases with consultants and explain clearly how a solution will work
• Work with client domain experts to understand edge cases and operational requirements
• Produce lightweight technical documentation, diagrams and decision records

Quality, reliability and AI operations

• Implement evaluation frameworks and safety checks across model and agent behaviour
• Build monitoring, logging, tracing and incident-handling patterns
• Apply governance, risk and compliance principles to AI deployments, with awareness of EU requirements such as GDPR and the EU AI Act
• Support release cycles, environments and operational readiness
• Own reliability, reproducibility and performance benchmarks

Building team capability

• Turn what you build into reusable agent patterns, templates and starter kits
• Share new research, frameworks and techniques with colleagues
• Coach peers and influence coding standards and architectural practice

What you'll bring

Essential

• 6 to 8 years in software or application engineering, AI engineering or applied data engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, retrieval stacks and vector stores
• Practical experience building multi-agent systems, agent orchestration or MCP-style tool patterns
• Strong Python, with a track record of production-grade workflows
• Experience with at least one cloud AI ecosystem: Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock or Anthropic
• Working knowledge of semantic modelling, ontologies or knowledge graphs
• Ability to turn open-ended business problems into working prototypes quickly
• Comfortable in client-facing delivery, ideally within a consultancy
• Right to work in the Netherlands, and based within reasonable travel of Amsterdam
• Fluent English; Dutch is a plus but not essential

Desirable

• Domain experience in life sciences, pharma or healthcare, FMCG or retail, insurance, or banking and financial services
• Deeper ontology or knowledge graph expertise
• Experience with LLM evaluation and observability tooling
• Strong engineers from non-AI backgrounds who have moved quickly into agentic AI and can show what they have built are very welcome

Who thrives

• Senior and genuinely hands-on, with plenty of energy for building
• Self-starting and entrepreneurial, with a bias for action and ownership
• Calm and structured with ambiguity, reasoning from first principles
• A builder who prototypes, iterates and ships
• A clear communicator who can simplify complex systems for clients and colleagues
• Collaborative and low ego, at home in small senior teams
• Rigorous about safety, reliability and trust in AI systems
• Curious and quick to learn, keeping pace with new tools and research

About Staffworx

Staffworx is a specialist IT and consulting recruitment firm placing permanent, contract, interim and fractional talent across AI and machine learning, software engineering, data, cloud and senior consulting. We partner with software vendors, consultancies, fintechs and global systems integrators across the UK and EMEA, with growing activity in the US.

For clients, we focus on quality over volume: a small number of well-screened candidates benchmarked against the brief, clear feedback loops and same-day responses. For candidates, we offer honest market insight, confidential conversations and introductions to roles that genuinely match your experience and ambitions. Whether you are scaling an AI engineering capability or exploring your next move in agentic AI, we would be glad to help.