Careers at Gradient · Amsterdam · 40 hours

Forward Deployed Engineer

You bring soev.ai live at clients in regulated sectors: developing custom agents, connecting systems and making sure people actually work with it.

Do you want to be the one who makes AI actually land inside an organisation? Soev.ai is our sovereign AI platform. Organisations use it to work with sensitive data, to automate specific processes, and to build AI into the software they already use. If they want, it runs completely inside their own environment. We currently work with four ministries, several municipalities, a critical organisation in the energy sector, and much more.

The hardest part of AI is not the model, it is getting it to work inside a real organisation: connected to their systems, trusted by their people, and measurably better than what they had. That is the part you own.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer you bring soev.ai live at the client. You develop and tune custom agents for their problem, connect it to the systems they already use, and stay until people genuinely work with it. You have the qualities of a Data & AI Engineer, but you thrive close to the client.

What you do

  • Implement soev.ai at clients, from the first integration to going live.
  • Develop and optimise custom agents for a client’s specific problems.
  • Connect systems: document management systems, mail systems, ERP, accounting systems, relational databases and more.
  • Guide adoption and onboarding, so people genuinely start working with it.
  • Bring signals from practice back to the product team.

What you bring

  • Experience with Data and AI engineering, strong in Python.
  • Familiar with LLM and RAG applications and with measuring quality.
  • You like working directly with clients and think in the solution, not just the code.
  • Strong communicator and independent: you stand confidently at the client.
  • Precise and pragmatic: you deliver something that can go into production.

What we offer

  • A salary between 3,500 and 4,000 euro per month.
  • Variety between client work and our own product.
  • A small team that sits at the table itself, from the first question to production.
  • Room to grow.
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Daan Witte, medeoprichter van Gradient

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