Senior Applied AI Engineer — Agent Runtime (Hybrid)

DataSnipper; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (Amsterdam-based)

28 vacation days

Excellent salary

Pension plan

Stock participation plan

Daily lunch

Mental health support (OpenUp)

Social events and team activities

International team and environment

Job summary

DataSnipper seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own the AI runtime layer for its Alwin platform. You will define how base agents reason, select tools, manage long horizons, and measure accuracy, speed, and cost. Join a small team with a big impact across audit and finance.

You will work hands-on on agentic systems, integration with document extraction tools, and multi-provider model routing to deliver reliable, traceable outputs for audit workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience shipping and operating an LLM-powered product in production
• Hands-on experience building agentic systems
• Experience with evaluation and datasets
• Fluency with LLM APIs and agent frameworks across providers
• Proficient with AI-assisted engineering and coding agents
• Strong fundamentals in software architecture and system design
• Excellent communication with auditors and product partners

Responsibilities

• Own the base agents: system prompt, context engineering, memory and state management
• Design how agents use the tool layer: document extraction, retrieval, sandboxes, MCP integrations
• Implement agentic patterns: sub-agent composition, planning modes, human-in-the-loop gates, model routing
• Ship end-to-end: prototype to production on Alwin
• Define and build automatic processes that improve the agent over time
• Keep costs under control and implement cost-efficient AI-centric workflows
• Instrument agent behaviour with observability and drive improvements
• Collaborate with Agent Experience, Document Intelligence and AI Platform teams
• Evaluate new models and patterns and bring production-ready ones

Skills

Python

LLM-powered production

Agentic systems

Software architecture

Evaluation

LLM APIs

Communication with auditors

Tools

Document extraction

Retrieval

Sandboxes

MCP integrations

Job description

DataSnipper seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own the AI runtime layer for its Alwin platform. You will define how base agents reason, select tools, manage long horizons, and measure accuracy, speed, and cost. Join a small team with a big impact across audit and finance.

You will work hands-on on agentic systems, integration with document extraction tools, and multi-provider model routing to deliver reliable, traceable outputs for audit workflows.