Senior Applied AI Engineer — Production-Grade Legal AI

LegalMike; Groningen; Hybrid; EUR 61,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Groningen (2 days/week)

Laptop of your choice

Travel allowance

Job summary

LegalMike, based in the Netherlands, is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own and advance the AI domain. You will build agentic workflows, design robust RAG strategies, and implement guardrails to ensure reliable, legally actionable output.

The role emphasizes production-ready AI integration, architectural ownership, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. Hybrid work with in-office Groningen presence is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software engineer
• Strong Python skills, including FastAPI, async programming, and type hints
• Proven experience with RAG systems in production and with LLM tool-calling, agents, and planners
• Experience evaluating, testing, and improving LLM output
• Ability to independently make well-considered architectural choices
• A product-oriented mindset, with a focus on costs, latency, and reliability
• Good communication skills in English (team language)
• Based in the Netherlands and available for hybrid work (at least 2 days per week in Groningen)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI architecture for LegalMike, including tool calling, planners, and operators
• Migrate existing RAG flows to more flexible agent-based setups
• Develop fallback and abstention strategies for uncertain or incomplete situations
• Collaborate with data engineers on RAG and retrieval challenges such as query decomposition, query expansion, and source selection
• Improve retrieval strategies with a focus on quality and reproducibility
• Set up AI evaluations (golden datasets, regression tests) and analyze failure modes.

Skills

Python development

FastAPI

Async programming

LLM tool-calling

RAG systems

Tools

PydanticAI

LangGraph

Job description

LegalMike, based in the Netherlands, is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own and advance the AI domain. You will build agentic workflows, design robust RAG strategies, and implement guardrails to ensure reliable, legally actionable output.

The role emphasizes production-ready AI integration, architectural ownership, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. Hybrid work with in-office Groningen presence is expected.