Senior AI Engineer

Next Ventures; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Ventures is expanding its AI team in the Netherlands and seeks 2 AI Engineers in Amsterdam to work directly with use case teams. You will translate business needs into scalable AI agents, tools and templates, owning the enablement platform end-to-end.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with LLM-powered apps (RAG, tool-calling), Python, LangChain and Azure, plus strong consultancy skills to uncover underlying client problems and deliver clear, actionable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or LLM-powered apps (RAG, tool-calling, MCP integrations).
• Proficiency in Python; experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar.
• Familiarity with developer tooling: CI/CD, Docker, Git, templating tools.
• Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Strong consultancy and communication skills; able to extract the real problem behind a customer request.
• Experience with MLOps tooling and IaC on Azure.

Responsibilities

• Engage with use case teams to understand problems, blockers, and needs.
• Translate insights into platform improvements: services, templates, tooling, or docs.
• Own, build and maintain AI agents and tools to accelerate enablement.
• Identify recurring pain points and drive structural fixes, not one-off solutions.
• Sustain and maintain the software underpinning enablement services for scale.

Skills

Python

LLM frameworks

LangChain

Azure

MLOps

CI/CD

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Git

CI/CD tools

templating tools

Job description

Next Ventures is currently supporting one of the big 4 consultancies with expanding their AI team in the Netherlands and they're looking for 2 AI Engineers:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Engage directly with use case teams to understand their problems, blockers, and needs
• Translate those insights into concrete platform improvements: better services, templates, tooling, or documentation
• Own, build and maintain AI agents and tools that accelerate how use cases get enabled
• Identify recurring pain points and drive structural fixes rather than one-off solutions
• Sustain and maintain the software underpinning enablement services so the teamcan scale

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or LLM-powered applications (RAG, tool-calling, MCP integrations)
• Proficiency in Python; experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar)
• Familiarity with developer tooling: CI/CD, Docker, Git, templating tools
• Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms
• Strong consultancy and communication skills; able to extract the real problem behind a customer request and act on it
• Experience with MLOps tooling and IaC on Azure