AI Engineer | Young Talent Program

Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; onsite

Company

hirify.global is a €100M+ e-commerce company serving businesses across Europe and the US and rebuilding its platform, customer service, operations, pricing, sales, and delivery as AI-first systems.

What you will do

• Build and ship real AI products used by customers and colleagues from the first week.
• Develop agentic commerce that makes hirify.global discoverable and orderable through AI assistants.
• Build an AI Design Studio that creates print-ready designs from natural-language prompts.
• Develop AI-first customer-service agents that answer questions, check artwork, and handle orders end to end.
• Automate finance, purchasing, pricing, and operations through internal agent swarms.
• Identify, pitch, measure, iterate, and ship new AI opportunities using modern models and frameworks.

Requirements

• Demonstrated builder mindset through shipped projects such as apps, agents, bots, tools, side businesses, open-source contributions, or experiments.
• Strong curiosity and critical thinking, with the ability to question assumptions and explain technical decisions.
• Ownership, fast learning, and openness to direct feedback; fixes problems and investigates unclear issues independently.
• Solid backend and software fundamentals in Python, APIs, and databases, or the learning capacity to acquire them within weeks.
• Daily experience building with AI tools, models, agents, and APIs.
• Concrete proof of work through live products, repositories, demos, or deployed projects.
• Ability to move quickly without being careless and attention to customer-facing details.
• Clear written and spoken English communication.
• No degree, minimum age, years of experience, or perfect CV is required; school and university schedules can be accommodated.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment from day one; the first year is a structured AI Residency, not an internship or trial period.
• Rotation across important AI projects with direct access to founders and a senior AI development team.
• Ownership of projects affecting how a €100M+ company operates, with access to current models, coding agents, and frameworks.
• Growth based on output rather than age, with the role able to expand as responsibilities grow.
• Fast, flat, hands-on team in Rotterdam with direct feedback and no-politics culture.
• Flexible full-time setup or part-time work alongside studies; salary and contract are tailored to the candidate’s situation and level.

Hiring process

• Submit a link to your best project with a short explanation of what it does and what you would change now.
• Submit one hirify.global experience or flow you would rebuild with AI and explain how you would do it, plus a five-sentence introduction.
• Process: application review with a reply within five days, a 15-minute project call, an office Builders Day with an assignment if appropriate, and a founders’ conversation with a same-day decision.