Senior AI Engineer (AI Agents)

TL;DR

Senior AI Engineer (AI Agents): Design and build production-grade AI agents with advanced planning, reasoning, and tool-use capabilities with an accent on architecting stateful agent workflows using frameworks like LangGraph or AutoGen. Focus on productionising RAG pipelines, integrating LLMs with enterprise systems, establishing evaluation and guardrails, and deploying with Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure.

Location: Utrecht

Company

Recruitment agency providing professional solutions to tech startups and global players from offices in Amsterdam and London, with a network of skilled professionals and contractors from 14 countries.

What you will do

• Design and build production-grade AI agents with planning, reasoning, and tool-use capabilities
• Architect stateful agent workflows using frameworks like LangGraph or AutoGen
• Build and productionise RAG pipelines including data ingestion, embeddings, retrieval optimisation, and re-ranking
• Integrate LLMs with enterprise systems via APIs, tools, and external data sources
• Establish evaluation, observability, and guardrails for accuracy, safety, latency, and cost
• Deploy and operate AI applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure
• Drive technical design decisions, mentor engineers, and define best practices for agentic AI development

Requirements

• 7-10+ years in software engineering with strong Python expertise
• Proven experience building agent-based or autonomous systems in production
• Strong experience with LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI), including function calling and orchestration
• Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI
• Deep understanding of RAG architectures, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Azure AI Search), and retrieval optimisation
• Strong knowledge of LLM evaluation, prompt optimisation, and safety techniques
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Familiarity with FastAPI and microservices architecture

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position
• Focus on connecting skills with projects and treating people as key factor
• International network of professionals