Forward Deployed Engineer | Retail & E-commerce
Job description
A Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer who works with retail and e-commerce clients to turn AI ambitions into production solutions, designing agentic architectures and building them in short cycles.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Utrecht, Netherlands
- Languages
- Dutch – fluent, English – fluent
- Pay
- EUR 5,850 – 7,150 / month
What you'll do
- Bridge business and technology: sit with the client, design the solution and often implement it yourself.
- Run discovery conversations with business development, test use cases against real data and systems, and build a proof-of-value in days.
- Design the agentic architecture, choose the fitting pattern per situation and bring the solution to production in short cycles together with AI Engineers.
- Ensure the client can run the solution themselves and measure after go-live whether it is actually used.
- Make learnings reusable for the next client and help onboard new FDEs.
What we're looking for
- Demonstrable experience in retail or e-commerce, knowing the processes, data and platforms from the inside.
- Has designed, brought to production and maintained AI solutions with LLMs and agents, including evals, guardrails, monitoring and security.
- Strong in Python and SQL, hands-on with at least one cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP) and a data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake or Fabric.
- Works daily with coding agents and critically assesses their output.
- Experience in a client-facing role such as consultancy, pre-sales, solutions engineering or own startup.
- Fluent in Dutch and English, both spoken and written.
Nice to have
- Experience with PIM, OMS, ERP or commerce platforms, and with classical ML such as demand forecasting.
Your team
AI Engineering-team
AI engineering consultants in two roles: the Forward Deployed AI Engineer owns the client problem and designs the solution including the agentic architecture; the AI Engineer goes deep on build, data, MLOps and scale.
Benefits
- Gross salary of €5,850–€7,150 per month based on 40 hours.
- 8% holiday allowance.
- Contract for 32 to 40 hours per week.
- Choice of lease car or mobility allowance on top of salary.
- 27 vacation days and 4 study days.
- €3,600 personal development budget per year and room for certifications.
- Hybrid working with flexible hours.
- Good pension scheme.
- Growth opportunities in a specialist track.
- International knowledge and development opportunities combined with a close-knit Dutch team.
How to get hired
- 1A CV or LinkedIn profile is enough to start the conversation.
- 2Then follow an introductory meeting, a technical conversation and a practical case.
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About adesso Netherlands
Groot genoeg om impact te maken, klein genoeg om het verschil te voelen.
Part of the international adesso Group, adesso Netherlands is a relatively small and personal team with short lines, much freedom and room for own initiative, building data platforms, AI-first applications and agentic solutions.
Mission
Building smart solutions that truly add value for clients, with technology that works and makes impact.
Key facts
- ruim 11.500 collega's
- Part of the international adesso Group with over 11,500 colleagues at more than 60 locations.
- Select Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network.
- Uses its own adSCAILE framework to build with AI agents in cycles of two to four days.
Partners & customers
What they value
- Craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and knowledge sharing are central.
- Not everything needs AI; the best solution always comes first.
- Colleagues who are curious, share knowledge and help each other further.