AI Platform Engineer

• As an AI Platform Engineer, you help build Jumbo’s AI platform. You develop the platform services and infrastructure that enable teams across the organization to bring AI solutions into production in a safe, scalable, and reliable way.
• AI is becoming increasingly important within Jumbo. From supply chain and inventory management to commerce and customer service, more and more teams are building AI-powered solutions. By creating a strong AI platform, you help teams deliver value faster without having to solve the same infrastructure challenges over and over again.
• You work within the AI Platform team alongside platform engineers, a tech lead, an engineering lead, and a product owner. Together, you build the platform that forms the foundation for AI development across Jumbo.
• You collaborate closely with product teams in domains such as supply chain, commerce, and customer service. In addition, you work with architects, platform teams, and engineers to ensure AI solutions can be deployed safely and effectively at scale., As an AI Platform Engineer, you work on a modern platform that enables teams to build, test, and operate AI solutions. Rather than focusing on individual use cases, you build the foundation that makes those use cases possible.

No two days are the same, but your responsibilities include:

• Developing platform services for AI and agent-based solutions;
• Building capabilities for model access, evaluation, and observability;
• Implementing guardrails and workflow orchestration for AI agents;
• Developing shared platform components for product teams;
• Integrating tools and services within the AI platform;
• Applying CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps practices;
• Managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code;
• Ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of platform services;
• Documenting technical decisions and architectural choices;
• Collaborating with engineers and product teams on new platform capabilities.

Together we are Jumbo: This is where you’ll work You will work within the Tech & Data domain at the Jumbo Tech Campus in Veghel. Here, we build the technology and platforms that support Jumbo’s digital future.

At Jumbo, things move fast. We continuously improve and encourage initiative. You will work in an environment where collaboration, ownership, and innovation are central, and where your work has a direct impact on teams across the organization.

What do you get from us? At Jumbo, you’ll work in an environment where people come first and where you’ll have the opportunity to grow, take ownership, and make an impact within a rapidly evolving technology domain.

You can count on:

• Working on a greenfield AI platform with real business impact;
• Plenty of room for innovation and technical growth;
• Collaboration with experienced platform and AI engineers;
• An environment focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement;
• The opportunity to help shape the technical direction of the platform.

Profile

At Jumbo, we are looking for engineers who enjoy building scalable platforms and solving complex technical challenges. You combine technical depth with a pragmatic mindset and enjoy working closely with other engineers.

• Experience building platform services used by internal engineering teams;
• Hands-on experience with AI and LLM-based solutions in production environments;
• Strong software engineering skills, including testing and CI/CD practices;
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code;
• Knowledge of observability, reliability, and platform engineering principles;
• The ability to translate technical challenges into practical solutions;
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI evaluation or observability platforms;
• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG);
• Experience with agent platforms and multi-step workflows;
• Experience working in multi-cloud environments;
• Experience working within platform teams in larger organizations.

• A gross salary between €5.100 - €6.500 per month (based on 40 hours).
• An annual bonus of max 5% of your annual salary, based on organizational goals.
• 30 days of paid holiday (with the opportunity to buy or sell days of paid holiday) and 8% holiday allowance. You build up a pension through participation in the Pension Fund for the Food Industry.
• An allowance for your travel expenses (€ 0.21 cents per kilometer with a maximum of 35 kilometers one way). We like to work together in the office, but you can also work partly from home.
• Room for entrepreneurship, growth and development. Not only in your job but also through our Jumbo Academy, online training through GoodHabitz and with a training budget.
• Daily fresh lunch in our Foodcafé, good coffee and fresh fruit. You can sport daily at our own Jumbo Gym for a small fee.
• Colleague discounts such as 10% off your groceries (up to €325 per year), participation in our collective health insurance or discounts through Benefits at Work.