{"id":13959,"date":"2026-08-17T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gapstars.net\/tech\/career-listings\/job-1596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:00:10","slug":"job-1596","status":"publish","type":"career-listings","link":"https:\/\/gapstars.net\/tech\/career-listings\/job-1596\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior AI Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About Gapstars<\/strong><br \/>At Gapstars, we partner with some of Europe&#8217;s most ambitious companies, from disruptive tech startups to established Benelux accounting firms, helping them build high-performing teams in engineering and finance.<\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in the Netherlands, with talent hubs in Sri Lanka and Portugal, we are home to 300+ professionals who thrive on solving real-world challenges with modern solutions. Our teams work across domains, from networking, marketplaces, SaaS, and AI to embedded finance and accounting, delivering scalable solutions that drive meaningful outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Role<\/strong><br \/>We&#8217;re looking for an engineer to build and run agentic workloads that operate unattended, from data extraction through to<br \/>orchestration interfaces. You&#8217;ll build the data pipelines that ingest, extract and transform a large enterprise document corpus<br \/>into something an LLM can actually retrieve against, and the sandboxed agents that work over it every night without a human<br \/>watching.<\/p>\n<p>You should enjoy the hard parts: hybrid retrieval at scale, data extraction that survives messy real-world documents, and<br \/>exposing sensitive data to agents in a controlled, permission-aware way.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><strong>What you&#8217;ll build<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 Data pipelines that ingest, extract and transform a large enterprise document corpus into an LLM-retrievable form.<br \/>\u2022 Hybrid retrieval over that corpus: chunking, keyword plus vector search, reranking, and measurement of answer quality.<br \/>\u2022 Sandboxed agents that run scheduled, unattended workloads over the indexed data.<br \/>\u2022 Permission-aware access so agents only ever reach data the requesting user is entitled to see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Must have<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 Experience integrating software components into a production-grade platform for enterprise use.<br \/>\u2022 Experience exposing sensitive data to agentic workloads \/ LLM harnesses in a controlled manner.<br \/>\u2022 Hands-on search and retrieval experience: chunking, hybrid keyword and vector retrieval, reranking, and measuring<br \/>whether the results are actually any good.<br \/>\u2022 Strong modern software engineering skills: comfortable with Linux, bash, git, containerisation (Docker or similar), and<br \/>authn \/ authz \/ access-control paradigms.<br \/>\u2022 A clear grasp of the limits of \u201cvibe coding\u201d in a team or enterprise setting, and of when code needs to be understandable,<br \/>extensible and transferable.<br \/>\u2022 Experience building data transformation and extraction pipelines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nice to have<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 In-depth Python and Go knowledge.<br \/>\u2022 In-depth Kubernetes knowledge.<br \/>\u2022 Experience with LiteLLM.<br \/>\u2022 Experience setting up internal chat or agent platforms (OpenWebUI, ComfyUI, LibreChat or similar).<br \/>\u2022 Experience with open-source agent harnesses.<br \/>\u2022 Demonstrable skill in manually creating, or ideally auto-optimising, agent skills and agentic workloads.<br \/>\u2022 Experience with low-code orchestration tools such as n8n.<br \/>\u2022 OCR at volume (Azure Document Intelligence or similar).<br \/>\u2022 Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, query performance at scale, and tuning pgvector or comparable vector-search<br \/>tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not the right fit if you&#8217;re<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 A pure data scientist, focused on explaining patterns in data.<br \/>\u2022 A pure academic, chasing architectural or conceptual purity.<br \/>\u2022 A pure coder, looking to build or own a single application.<br \/>\u2022 A demo engineer. 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Here&#8217;s what being a Star means:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Wellbeing first: Comprehensive health cover, surgical &#038; hospitalization benefits, and access to therapy &#038; counseling services<\/strong><\/p>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Work-life essentials: 24h continuous internet and power facility, shuttle service, and a gym membership to keep you moving<\/strong><\/p>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Everyday comforts: Unlimited tea &#038; coffee facilities along with snacks &#038; drinks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Growth, always: Personal Development Plans through Gapstars Academy, cross-functional learning via StarTalks, and opportunities for overseas travel and training<\/strong><\/p>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Life&#8217;s milestones, celebrated: Birthday vouchers, wedding and childbirth gifts, anniversary treats, and more, because we celebrate our Stars at every stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Community &#038; culture: Sports clubs, company events, tournaments, and parties that make Gapstars feel like home<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>&#8220;Gapstars is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, disability, or age. Your personal information collected during the application process is handled following our privacy policy and used exclusively for recruitment and hiring purposes only<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","role":"Senior AI Engineer","location":"Sri Lanka","about_gapstars":"<p><strong>About Gapstars<\/strong><br>At Gapstars, we partner with some of Europe's most ambitious companies, from disruptive tech startups to established Benelux accounting firms, helping them build high-performing teams in engineering and finance.<br><br>Headquartered in the Netherlands, with talent hubs in Sri Lanka and Portugal, we are home to 300+ professionals who thrive on solving real-world challenges with modern solutions. 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