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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

5Ahead — Netherlands · Posted ~11 hours ago

Senior

Skills

Python LLM applications RAG AI agents AI evaluation Azure Kubernetes CI/CD Monitoring Infrastructure as code Software engineering LLM

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Build and operate practical AI solutions directly alongside business and technical users. You will turn real workflows into production-ready LLM applications, including retrieval-augmented systems, agents, and decision-support tools. The role combines strong Python engineering with cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and significant autonomy in a small team.

Highlights

Work closely with end users to identify practical AI opportunities, build solutions, and operate them in production. The role offers broad ownership in a small team, direct influence over product direction, and hands-on work with LLM applications, agents, RAG, and modern cloud infrastructure.

Description

We're hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at 5ahead. We're a small team building AI products for the ELA Container group's roughly 1,600 employees: • AI assistants that answer from company knowledge, in many languages • Voice-to-voice agents that hold real conversations • Document and decision-support tools built on LLMs • Agents that take repetitive work off people's desks This role is for someone who wants to be close to the users. You'll sit with sales, HR or engineering, work out what would actually help, build it and keep it running in production. There's no big team to hand things off to, so you'll lean on AI coding tools a lot, and you'll have a real say in what we build next. What we're looking for: • 4+ years in software engineering, at least 1 of them shipping LLM apps to production • Strong Python, plus hands-on RAG, agents and evaluation • Azure, or Kubernetes / private cloud experience you can carry over • CI/CD, monitoring and infrastructure as code • German or Dutch is a plus 📍 Enschede, The Gallery, on the Campus of University Twente 👉 Apply here: https://5ahead.com If this sounds like you or someone you know, send me a message or share the post. #hiring #AIEngineer #LLM #ForwardDeployedEngineer