Staff AI Engineer — Agentic Shopping Lead

Relocate; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation

Health insurance discount & bike plan

Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks

25 holidays

Job summary

Picnic in Amsterdam seeks a Staff AI Engineer to lead the agentic shopping initiative. You will own technical direction, architecture, and model strategy for multi-turn conversational AI, unifying retrieval, generation, and safety considerations to deliver scalable, reliable experiences.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design teams, and push for production-ready systems that balance latency and cost while serving millions across three countries.

Qualifications

• Proven track record taking complex multi-turn conversational AI systems from design to production.
• Experience training, fine‑tuning, and optimizing open‑weight LLMs for production deployment.
• Hands‑on expertise building production RAG systems, context management, and state handling for multi‑turn dialogues.
• Experience designing robust evaluation loops, monitoring systems, and automated safety guardrails for customer‑facing apps.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences across the platform.
• Own architecture, model strategy, and evaluation for multi-turn conversational AI.
• Balance latency, safety, reliability, and cost in production systems.
• Mentor engineers and drive production-grade code and practices.
• Collaborate with product, design, and cross‑functional teams to align on capabilities.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

LangGraph

vLLM

Pydantic AI

Qdrant

Education

CS/AI degree

Tools

DeepEval

Job description

Picnic in Amsterdam seeks a Staff AI Engineer to lead the agentic shopping initiative. You will own technical direction, architecture, and model strategy for multi-turn conversational AI, unifying retrieval, generation, and safety considerations to deliver scalable, reliable experiences.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design teams, and push for production-ready systems that balance latency and cost while serving millions across three countries.