Founding AI Engineer

Harnham Bekijk Alle Vacatures
Rotterdam, Netherlands
18 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
€12,500.0 - €18,333.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Large Language Models

Job description

You will operate as a highly autonomous individual contributor, identifying and building high-impact AI solutions that drive measurable commercial value.

  • Identify high-leverage opportunities across pricing, customer journey, operations, and internal tooling
  • Translate business problems into AI-driven solutions with clear commercial outcomes
  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems that are monitored and scalable
  • Own the full lifecycle from ideation through to measurable business impact
  • Continuously prioritise and deliver initiatives that improve revenue, efficiency, or customer experience
  • Collaborate directly with senior stakeholders and technical teams to drive execution at pace
  • Contribute to a fast-moving engineering environment focused on shipping high-quality solutions quickly

Requirements

You will combine strong technical expertise with a commercial mindset and a track record of delivering real-world impact.

  • Strong hands-on experience building and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in production
  • Proven ability to identify business opportunities and independently define solutions
  • Experience delivering systems that drive measurable outcomes such as revenue growth or cost reduction
  • Deep understanding of modern AI tooling, including large language models and production workflows
  • Ability to design scalable architectures with consideration of cost, performance, and reliability
  • Commercial awareness with the ability to prioritise work based on business value
  • Comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environment

Benefits & conditions

They offer a highly competitive package designed to reward impact and long-term contribution.

  • Base salary between €150,000 and €220,000
  • Performance bonus linked directly to delivered business outcomes
  • Meaningful equity package aligned with company growth
  • Learning and development budget with flexibility to invest in tools and training
  • Access to modern hardware and infrastructure to support your work
  • A high-autonomy role with direct exposure to leadership and business-critical decisions

About the company

€150k -€220k + benefits / bonus This is an opportunity to step into a business already delivering real AI impact at scale and help accelerate it further. Rather than building from scratch, you will join a high-performing team that is actively transforming its platform with AI-first systems already in production. You will operate with full autonomy, tackling commercially critical challenges and delivering solutions that directly impact revenue, cost, and customer experience. The Company They are a well-established, high-growth digital platform operating across multiple international markets, with a large and active customer base. The business generates significant annual revenue and is currently undergoing a major transformation, rebuilding its core systems to be AI-native. Their leadership team is highly hands-on, with a strong focus on execution, innovation, and measurable business impact. Teams are structured around ownership and delivery, with a culture that prioritises speed, accountability, and continuous improvement. This is a business that has already moved past experimentation with AI and is now embedding it at the core of how it operates and scales.

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