Senior/Lead Polyglot AI Engineer Amsterdam

Your job: Senior/Lead Polyglot AI Engineer Amsterdam

• Have you already taken agents or a software factory into production, and do you want to make the step from "it works for me" to "it works for a whole organisation"?
• Do you want to build for well-funded clients where software is the core of the business, and where tens of millions of end users notice your work every day?
• Do you finally want to sit among the smartest people in the class, engineers who are a step further than you and keep you sharp every day?
• Do you say yes to a permanent contract, a strong salary of €85,000 to €97,500 plus a 5% bonus, a €5,000 training budget per year and mostly four days at home?

Then this role is worth your attention.

Your employer: an engineering club that has been a step ahead for years

This is a club of engineers that helps clients with complex automation problems. You are never alone in front of a client. You arrive with a strong team that looks beyond the ticket together, and you feel that difference in your first week.

For decades this club has been early. With distributed systems, with domain driven design, with cloud native: every time the field took a step, they were already there. That expertise never went away. It is still in the house, and so is the curiosity: people here are always working with whatever is most modern right now. That is why this is now a major player in AI augmentation.

Whether you use AI is no longer a question here. Everyone does. The question is what you do next: how do you get agents into production reliably, how do you build a software factory that does not fall over when things get busy, and how do you bring along an entire organisation that has never worked this way before?

You do that for well-funded organisations where software and automation are the core. You see the consequences of your choices at a scale you will not easily find elsewhere, with tens of millions of end users on the other side.

And you do not do it alone. Do you know that feeling of often being the one in the team who sets the pace? Here that is different. You sit among the smartest people in the class, engineers who have done this work for a long time and done it very well, and some of them are further along than you. That is exactly what you are looking for. They share what they learn, they challenge you and they expect you to do the same. In a field that moves this fast, that is the only way to stay sharp.

And when you want to move on one day? You become CTO, join one of the biggest tech companies or start something of your own.

Your role: Senior/Lead Polyglot AI Engineer Amsterdam

Picture this: you are at a client and everyone looks at you. Not because you are the boss, but because you know how it works when agents are really allowed to do things. Here you become the lead naturally, even if nobody calls it that.

You get the chance to sink your teeth into the part of AI where nobody has a ready-made answer yet: keeping agents under control, seeing what they do and running them reliably and affordably at scale. Software factories, multi-agent setups, the whole road from experiment to production.

The beautiful and the hard part is that the technology is only half of it. The other half is the room: a board that wants to know what it costs and delivers, teams that have to learn to work differently, and someone who dares to say it can be done another way. You explain it so that it lands, and you are the one who takes them along afterwards.

As a polyglot you pick the language that fits and you see a new tool as something to try, not a threat.

You work mostly four days at home and spend one or two days a week at the client in the Randstad. Assignments last eighteen months on average: long enough to make a real impact, and afterwards you stay longer or take on the next challenge.

Where you grow to is something you help decide. You can become a technical leader, the face of a client relationship, or the person whose assignment grows because the client sees what is possible.

What you bring

• You have already put AI to real use inside companies: you have taken agents or a software factory into production and you know from experience what goes wrong afterwards.
• You are technically strong, have seen plenty of systems come and go and do not let hype impress you.
• You are polyglot, with experience in several modern languages such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go (Golang) and TypeScript. You pick up new languages and tools quickly, and you know why you choose what you choose.
• You are a genuinely strong communicator. You explain choices and impact so that people who do not read code understand them, you are emotionally intelligent and you sense who you need to take along and how.
• You have worked directly with clients or managed stakeholders. One of the two is enough, as long as you know what it is like when your work lands with people who have an opinion about it.
• AI gives you energy yourself, even when nobody asks it of you.

Nice to have, not a requirement

• A completed technical bachelor's or master's degree, so you reason from the fundamentals.
• You are active in a community.
• You speak at meetups or conferences.
• You contribute to open source AI.
• You are entrepreneurial in how you can add more value for a client.

What you get

• A permanent contract from day one.
• A strong salary of €85,000 to €97,500, with a 5% bonus on top.
• Mostly four days at home, one or two days at the client in the Randstad, with a €45 home working allowance.
• Long assignments of eighteen months on average.
• A €5,000 training budget per year plus six extra days for training, certifications and conferences.
• Five extra days a year to experiment with something new.
• Knowledge sessions every two weeks with colleagues who speak at conferences themselves.
• 25 days of holiday and a pension plan.
• A new laptop and phone every two years.
• Colleagues who make you better.

Do you want to lead the way with AI and bring along the organisations that still have to take that step?