Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
An Amsterdam-based early-stage technology company is seeking a founding-level AI engineer to design and build secure, customer-facing systems from the ground up. The role focuses on LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, evaluation, and guardrails, with substantial ownership and rapid feedback from real users.
Highlights
Join an early-stage international team with substantial ownership, greenfield engineering work, direct exposure to founders and customers, competitive compensation up to €110,000, benefits, and equity.
Description
Senior AI Engineer
📍 Netherlands - Hybrid 💶 Up to €110k + benefits & equity
🛠️ AI: LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, evals & guardrails
Some markets are slow because they're genuinely hard.
This one is slow because nobody's bothered to fix it.
An Amsterdam startup is changing that.
They're rebuilding how regulated firms onboard new clients, today a weeks-long mess of emails, manual checks and chased paperwork.
Their platform turns it into something clean that takes days, and quietly keeps bad actors out of the financial system while it's at it.
This is a young, international team and they are looking for an AI engineer who's going to accelerate their growth even further! You'd report straight to the founder and own real surface area from day one.
Most of what you build is greenfield.
You're designing systems, and building something secure and exciting.
Whatever you ship is in front of paying customers within days, and the feedback lands in real time!!
This isn't a slide in a pitch deck.
The product is live, the runway runs years deep, and the market is old, niche, and barely contested.
💶 Salary up to €110k + benefits
📍 Amsterdam HQ
🤝 A genuine founding-team seat - flat structure, direct line to the CTO
⚡ Your work ships to real users in days, not quarters
🧠 An AI-native engineering culture - Claude Code, Codex and friends are part of the daily toolkit, not a side experiment
🪴 Meaningful equity - real skin in the game
🏗 Real ownership of backend architecture, security and core business logic
What you'll be doing
🔍 Own the core AI that turns huge volumes of regulation into precise, cited answers
🤖 Design long-running agentic flows that reason across documents and stay correct end to end
🛡️ Build the evaluation and guardrail layer that makes answers trustworthy - this is a product where "roughly right" isn't good enough
🧩 Build and push RAG and structured retrieval over a vast, messy, formal corpus
🧭 Set the technical direction as the first dedicated AI engineer
You'll love this if...
✅ You've shipped LLM systems into a real product at scale
✅ You obsess over reliability - evals, guardrails, being right when wrong is expensive
✅ You're drawn to formal, high-stakes domains (legal, regulatory, compliance) and have built RAG systems
✅ You want founding-level ownership and equity
Apply today!
Because great teams are Built Different.
