Staff AI Engineer — Lead Agentic Shopping AI

Picnic Technologies; Amsterdam; Sur place; EUR 110 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Picnic Technologies in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences. You will own architecture, model strategy, and safety patterns for production-grade conversational assistants.

You will design and implement multi-turn systems using open-weight LLMs, RAG, and context management, while mentoring engineers and balancing latency, reliability and cost.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of taking complex multi-turn conversational AI systems from architectural design to high-scale 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, continuous monitoring systems, and automated safety/guardrail mechanisms for customer-facing applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor engineering teams without relying on hierarchy.
• Strong Python skills and ability to productionize model, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation and inference tooling.

Responsabilités

• Lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences that help millions plan and shop effortlessly.
• Architect multi-turn conversational systems with latency, safety, and cost considerations; mentor engineers across the organization.
• Drive rapid prototyping, establish architectural patterns, and produce production code when needed to unblock challenges.
• Design and implement architectures for fine-tuning, distillation, and RAG for agentic assistants.
• Establish evaluation and safety feedback loops to ensure reliable, user-friendly experiences.

Connaissances

Python

Production ML tooling

Open-weight LLMs

RAG systems

Evaluation loops

Safety guardrails

Mentoring

Model fine-tuning

Formation

Bachelor's or higher in CS/AI

PhD advantageous

Outils

PyTorch

LangGraph

vLLM

Pydantic AI

Qdrant

DeepEval

Description du poste

Picnic Technologies in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences. You will own architecture, model strategy, and safety patterns for production-grade conversational assistants.

You will design and implement multi-turn systems using open-weight LLMs, RAG, and context management, while mentoring engineers and balancing latency, reliability and cost.