Staff AI Engineer - Developer Tools (Remote)

Vacaturebank; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Relocation support

Meal allowance

Gym access or stipend

Learning & development budget

Company events

Job summary

Vacaturebank is listing a Staff AI Engineer - Developer Tools in the Netherlands. You will lead AI-powered developer experiences at scale, shaping workflows for C++ development and integrating AI agents with IDEs and tooling.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering leadership, architectural direction, and collaboration across product and ML teams to drive strategic AI initiatives in a mature codebase.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience at Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or comparable senior level.
• Strong experience with Kotlin, Java, or other JVM technologies, or ability to quickly become productive in a JVM-based codebase.
• Experience building AI-powered products, developer tools, coding assistants, agents, or LLM-based workflows.
• Strong understanding of modern coding agents, tool calling, context management, MCP, and AI evaluation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for AI-powered developer experiences.
• Shape and deliver AI-powered features for C++ development workflows and developer tools.
• Design architectures for AI integrations, coding agents, agent tools, and C++-specific AI capabilities.
• Prototype and validate AI-assisted workflows covering debugging, code understanding, refactoring, and project navigation.
• Collaborate with product managers, ML engineers, QA engineers, senior developers, and other stakeholders to define and deliver the roadmap.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

JVM familiarity

AI-powered products

Tools

IDE Internals

Language tooling

Static analysis

Job description

Vacaturebank is listing a Staff AI Engineer - Developer Tools in the Netherlands. You will lead AI-powered developer experiences at scale, shaping workflows for C++ development and integrating AI agents with IDEs and tooling.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering leadership, architectural direction, and collaboration across product and ML teams to drive strategic AI initiatives in a mature codebase.