Senior AI Engineer
Altura· Engineering
Hybrid (Amsterdam HQ)€115k - €130k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior AI Engineer at Altura, a fast-growing SaaS startup building an agentic AI Virtual Bid Manager to automate the bid lifecycle. Hybrid work in Amsterdam, full-time, with compensation €115K–€130K plus equity.
Responsibilities
- Design and Deliver an agentic layer and a rich context graph that delivers automation of work with deep integration in our customers knowledge repositories.
- Drive architecture & delivery of production LLM/GenAI systems (context engineering, agentic workflows, model evaluations, multi-model strategies).
- Define and implement evaluation: offline + online metrics, gold sets, regression tests, human review loops, and A/B experiments.
- Operationalize LLMOps: deployment patterns, observability, monitoring, incident response, and performance/cost optimization (latency, throughput, token spend).
- Build guardrails & security: prompt-injection defenses, data-exfiltration prevention, permissions for tools/actions, and safe handling of sensitive data.
- Establish engineering standards: reference implementations, reusable libraries, review practices, and documentation that accelerates teams.
- Mentor and influence: coach engineers, raise the bar on system design and code quality, and align multiple teams on outcomes and timelines.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in AI/ML software engineering (or equivalent), with multiple production AI/ML launches.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (system design, testing, reliability, code review, APIs).
- Proven experience with LLM application patterns (e.g., context engineering, output quality, embeddings/vector search, prompt design, structured outputs).
- Hands-on experience building evaluation + monitoring for model/system quality in production.
- Comfort operating in cloud environments (Azure), containers, CI/CD, and modern observability.
- Excellent cross-functional communication: you can translate ambiguity into plans, tradeoffs, and shipped outcomes.
Skills
Required:AI/ML software engineeringLLM application patternsEvaluation and monitoring for production AICloud and observability toolingCross-functional communication
Benefits
- Work - Build the future of SaaS with an AI-built scaleup.
- Time - 40 hours per week
- Compensation - Competitive salary and Virtual Stock Units (VSUs)
- Free - 26 vacation days
- Tech - All the tools and tech stack you want
- Ownership - Autonomy to make calls and drive impact
- Culture - Flat, direct, feedback-rich team
- Fun - Company outings
- Development - Budget for skill growth tied to OKRs
- Laptop
- Hybrid working model - 2 days/week in Amsterdam office
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Altura
Bid management platform met AI gedreven functionaliteiten - voor tenders & RfP's
Altura is een end-to-end platform voor bidteams dat aanbestedings- en RfP-documenten analyseert, input verzamelt en inzichten biedt om het schrijven van hoogwaardige voorstellen te automatiseren. Zonder al het administratieve werk.
BidmanagementAITendersRfP'sDocumentanalyseBidteams
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