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Founding AI Engineer

Introduction

As Founding AI Engineer, you will not join an existing AI team — you will build it. You will work directly with the founders and leadership team to identify opportunities, build AI products from scratch and create agentic systems that drive revenue, efficiency and growth.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who combines deep technical expertise with entrepreneurial thinking and wants to build products with direct business impact.

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Benefits

  • Base salary between €150.000 and €220.000 gross annually
  • Equity participation opportunity
  • Direct collaboration with the founders
  • High autonomy and ownership
  • Opportunity to build the AI function from the ground up
  • Work on real business problems with direct commercial impact
  • International working environment with 20+ nationalities
  • Office in the heart of Rotterdam
  • High-growth scale-up environment
  • Opportunity to shape the future of an AI-first company

Required Skills

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in AI, software engineering or product development
  • Proven experience building and shipping production-grade AI products
  • Deep understanding of LLMs and agentic workflows
  • Strong experience with Python and modern AI tooling
  • Experience building scalable AI systems
  • Commercial mindset and business understanding
  • Strong architectural decision-making skills
  • Ability to work independently without detailed roadmaps
  • Entrepreneurial and ownership mentality
  • Excellent communication skills in English

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy AI products from idea to production
  • Develop agentic AI systems that create measurable business impact
  • Identify opportunities across pricing, procurement and operations
  • Build AI workflows that increase efficiency and revenue
  • Design scalable AI architecture and infrastructure
  • Work directly with founders and business leaders
  • Own the complete product lifecycle from concept to deployment
  • Experiment rapidly and ship production-ready solutions
  • Translate business problems into AI applications
  • Help transform HelloPrint into an AI-first organization

Why Work at HelloPrint

Build the Future of AI

Become the first AI hire and shape the AI strategy, infrastructure and products of an international scale-up.

Direct Founder Collaboration

Work closely with the founders and leadership team on high-impact initiatives that directly influence the business.

Real Commercial Impact

Build AI products that influence pricing, procurement, automation and revenue instead of working on isolated proof-of-concepts.

Your Growth Path at HelloPrint

  1. Head of AI
  2. VP AI & Automation
  3. Chief AI Officer

Application process

Application

Let us know you’re interested by applying for this role!

First Interview

Get to know each other and learn more about our company.

Second Interview

A more in-depth interview with the hiring manager to explore how you can make an impact within the team.

Third Interview

A follow-up with senior team members or decision-makers.

Job Offer

You’ll receive a formal offer with all the details.

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Office locations

Address
Schiedamse Vest 89, 3012 BG Rotterdam, Netherlands

Details
Job Type
Full-time
Location
Rotterdam
Salary
12500 - €18500

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