Junior AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Junior AI Engineer (AI): Building and shipping agentic AI systems and conversational workflows for a customer engagement platform with an accent on LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, and RAG. Focus on designing AI agents that resolve customer conversations automatically and integrating tool-use pipelines.

Location: Hybrid (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered customer engagement platform that provides an omnichannel inbox to help businesses replace repetitive work with meaningful conversations.

What you will do

• Build and ship AI Agents and conversational workflows for the customer engagement platform.
• Manage end-to-end LLM implementation, including prompting, context engineering, retrieval, and agent orchestration.
• Utilize Claude Code daily to accelerate development and optimize team workflows.
• Transform customer problems and rough ideas into working features with senior guidance.
• Ensure high quality through rigorous testing, learning from failures, and iterative improvement.

Requirements

• Master's degree in AI, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
• Genuine passion for AI demonstrated via side projects, experiments, or a portfolio (GitHub/blog).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, with Python and/or TypeScript being a plus.
• Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, RAG, or agent design.
• 1-2 internships in a fast-paced scale-up environment.

Nice to have

• Strong proficiency and thoughtful application of Claude Code in development.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, APIs, or event-driven systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with 60 days per year to work abroad.
• 28 vacation days and a learning budget with 2 extra days off for courses or conferences.
• Mental health support through free on-demand psychologist sessions (OpenUp).
• Daily warm lunches provided at the Utrecht office and travel reimbursement to HQ.
• Pension contribution and a sabbatical of up to three months after two years of employment.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with the Talent team.
• Manager interview to discuss experience and expectations.
• Practical assignment to demonstrate technical capabilities.
• Team connection meeting to ensure mutual cultural fit.