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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Gapstars
- **Location:** ALMERE, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Linux, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Workflow Management Systems, Large Language Models, Git, Containerization, Pure Data, Low-code, Docker
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://gapstars.net/tech/career-listings/job-1596/

## About the Role

* Experience integrating software components into a production-grade platform for enterprise use.
 * Experience exposing sensitive data to agentic workloads / LLM harnesses in a controlled manner.
 * Hands-on search and retrieval experience: chunking, hybrid keyword and vector retrieval, reranking, and measuring
whether the results are actually any good.

 * Strong modern software engineering skills: comfortable with Linux, bash, git, containerisation (Docker or similar), and
authn / authz / access-control paradigms.

 * A clear grasp of the limits of "vibe coding" in a team or enterprise setting, and of when code needs to be understandable,
extensible and transferable.

 * Experience building data transformation and extraction pipelines.
Nice to have

 * In-depth Python and Go knowledge.
 * In-depth Kubernetes knowledge.
 * Experience with LiteLLM.
 * Experience setting up internal chat or agent platforms (OpenWebUI, ComfyUI, LibreChat or similar).
 * Experience with open-source agent harnesses.
 * Demonstrable skill in manually creating, or ideally auto-optimising, agent skills and agentic workloads.
 * Experience with low-code orchestration tools such as n8n.
 * OCR at volume (Azure Document Intelligence or similar).
 * Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, query performance at scale, and tuning pgvector or comparable vector-search
tools.
Not the right fit if you're

 * A pure data scientist, focused on explaining patterns in data.
 * A pure academic, chasing architectural or conceptual purity.
 * A pure coder, looking to build or own a single application.
 * A demo engineer. We're building a system that has to run unattended, every night.
How you work

 * You reliably execute a plan.
 * You communicate well and are comfortable talking to people.
 * You take ownership of parts of a project without being controlling.
 * You simplify or delete code rather than pile it on.
 * You raise blockers with the team rather than working around them in isolation.

## Description

We're looking for an engineer to build and run agentic workloads that operate unattended, from data extraction through to
orchestration interfaces. You'll build the data pipelines that ingest, extract and transform a large enterprise document corpus
into something an LLM can actually retrieve against, and the sandboxed agents that work over it every night without a human
watching.

You should enjoy the hard parts: hybrid retrieval at scale, data extraction that survives messy real-world documents, and
exposing sensitive data to agents in a controlled, permission-aware way.


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