Forward Deployed Engineer | Utilities
Job description
A Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer who works close to utility clients, turning AI ambitions into tested use cases and production solutions, designing agentic architectures and building them with AI Engineers.
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.
- Sharpen use cases with business development through discovery talks, testing against real data and systems, and building a proof-of-value in days.
- Design the agentic architecture, choose the fitting pattern and bring the solution to production in short cycles with AI Engineers.
- Hand over and measure: the client can run the solution themselves and after go-live you measure whether it is really used.
- Make what you learn reusable for the next client and help onboard new FDEs.
- Spend about 10% of time on pre-sales and 90% on delivery.
What we're looking for
- Demonstrable experience in utilities such as energy, grid management or technical infrastructure.
- 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, spoken and written.
Nice to have
- Experience with asset management, smart meter data or OT/IT.
- Experience with classical ML such as load 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.
- Company car or mobility allowance of choice, 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 introduction, a technical conversation and a practical case.
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About adesso Netherlands
Big enough to make impact, small enough to feel the difference.
Part of the international adesso Group with over 11,500 colleagues at more than 60 locations, while in the Netherlands a relatively small and personal team with short lines, much freedom and room for own initiative.
Mission
We build smart solutions that truly add value for our clients, technology that works and makes impact rather than endless experiments.
Key facts
- Part of the international adesso Group with over 11,500 colleagues at more than 60 locations.
- In the Netherlands a relatively small and personal team with short lines and much freedom.
- Select Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network.
- Own framework adSCAILE for building 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.