Senior AI Engineer

We’re Altura, an ambitious SaaS startup, and we just raised our Series A! We're Altura, an ambitious SaaS startup transforming the future of bid management. We help organisations win complex deals (tenders and RFPs). Altura turns bid management from a tactical bottleneck into a strategic capability — so commercial teams can pursue the right deals faster, respond with confidence, and compound the knowledge they build with every bid. Our agentic platform automates the entire bid lifecycle, powered by AI workflows, in-platform collaboration, and enterprise-grade foundations. With fresh funding, big ambitions, and a fast-growing team, we're just getting started. If you value innovation, thrive in collaboration, and want to make real impact, we'd love to have you on board. Let's work together! TL;DR As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll join a high-caliber team building the agentic layer that powers Altura’s next evolution. This is not a “plug prompts into an API” role. You’ll design and ship real agentic workflows: context-aware, production-grade systems that sit on top of our proprietary data graph and become a core technical moat. You’ll work in a small, fast-moving team with full freedom to experiment: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and new models the day they drop. If something advances the state of the art, we’re using it. You’ll drive high-impact AI initiatives end-to-end: - From discovery and greenfield prototyping - To model evaluation and multi-model strategy - To production rollout, observability, and continuous improvement Beyond product capabilities, you’ll help shape foundational AI platform components: context engineering, agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, tone monitoring, and online observability. No corporate red tape. No endless committees. Just ownership, speed, and real technical influence. You’ll ship AI that is: - Reliable in production - Scalable across customers - Measurable in impact - Cost-aware by design And you’ll help define what “great AI engineering” looks like inside a Series A company operating at the leading edge. OUR TECH STACK - AI: Python - Frontend: Vue.js and Next.js - Backend: C# - ASP.NET http://ASP.NET - Infrastructure: Azure, GitHub, Linear WHAT YOU’LL DO (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. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (MINIMUM 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. NICE TO HAVE - Experience optimizing inference (caching, batching, routing, quantization) or serving open-source models. - Experience building internal AI platforms (evaluation harnesses, prompt/version management). WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN 90–180 DAYS - Delivery of AI native capabilities in our platform, aligned with product goals and risk constraints. - A repeatable evaluation + release process that prevents regressions and supports fast iteration. - AI capabilities shipped with monitoring, guardrails, and measurable business impact. HIRING PROCESS 1. Recruiter Screen (30 min) 2. Meet the Team & System Design (60 min) 3. Pair Programming Session (60 min) 4. CEO Final 5. Offer We offer - Work: Build the future of SaaS at a moment when the way software gets made, sold, and used is being rewritten. We're an AI-built scaleup moving with it, still figuring out what world-class looks like — and there's real room here to do the most meaningful work of your career 🦾 - 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: Take the lead on your work with the autonomy and trust to make calls without waiting for permission, drive real impact, and help shape where Altura goes next 🚀 - Culture: A flat, direct, feedback-rich team that values judgment over hierarchy and outcomes over hours. We give feedback openly, skip the red tape, and trust each other to act like owners 🤝 - Fun: Speed at the go-kart track or bowl your colleagues out during our company outings 🏎 - Development: Grow your skills with a budget you can unlock by presenting a case to leadership tied to our OKRs 💡 - Laptop 💻 - Hybrid working model: 3 days/week in our beautiful Amsterdam office 🏫