1 week ago

Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping

Picnic Technologies

Amsterdam

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Picnic is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction for Agentic Shopping, building an AI-powered grocery shopping assistant. The role involves architecture, model strategy, rapid prototyping, and productionization of multi-turn conversational agents. Requires deep expertise in LLMs, RAG, Python, and technical leadership.

Core AIOn-siteFull-timePrincipalPythonPyTorch

Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping

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Core AIOn-siteFull-timePrincipalPython

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

On-site

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

PythonPyTorchLangGraphvLLMPydantic AIQdrantDeepEvalRAGFine-tuningDistillationOpen-weight LLMsEvaluationMonitoringSafety guardrailsArchitecture

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentoringCollaborationCommunication

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

Deep LearningSequence ModellingRepresentation LearningRetrievalRankingRecommendation Models

Key Responsibilities

•Lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences that help millions of people plan and shop effortlessly.
•Lead the system architecture for multi-turn conversational agents, balancing latency, safety guardrails, and inference costs.
•Technically mentor engineers across the organization to execute on building production-grade agentic systems.
•Drive a fast-paced, iterative engineering cadence. Build initial prototypes, establish architectural patterns, and write production code when necessary to unblock complex technical challenges.
•Design and implement systems architectures for multi-turn, conversational agents using open-weight models and techniques like fine-tuning, distillation, and RAG.
•Establish continuous offline and online evaluation for mission completion, basket correctness, customer effort, clarification quality, acceptance and corrections, safety, reliability, latency and cost.
•Collaborate with product, design, and product teams to define technical trade-offs, align on agent capabilities, and ensure a seamless, safe user experience.

AIAgentic ShoppingStaff EngineerRetailGroceryLLMRAGPythonTechnical LeadershipOn-site

Key Responsibilities

•Lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences that help millions of people plan and shop effortlessly.

•Lead the system architecture for multi-turn conversational agents, balancing latency, safety guardrails, and inference costs.

•Technically mentor engineers across the organization to execute on building production-grade agentic systems.

•Drive a fast-paced, iterative engineering cadence. Build initial prototypes, establish architectural patterns, and write production code when necessary to unblock complex technical challenges.

•Design and implement systems architectures for multi-turn, conversational agents using open-weight models and techniques like fine-tuning, distillation, and RAG.

•Establish continuous offline and online evaluation for mission completion, basket correctness, customer effort, clarification quality, acceptance and corrections, safety, reliability, latency and cost.

•Collaborate with product, design, and product teams to define technical trade-offs, align on agent capabilities, and ensure a seamless, safe user experience.