AI Engineer

Location: Gouda, Netherlands
Department: Product Development
Hours: Full-time (32-40 hours)

The impact you will make as an AI Engineer

As an AI Engineer at Akkuro, you will help shape the future of finance. You design and develop intelligent solutions that bring clarity to complex financial data and power smarter application agents. 

With global banks facing growing pressure to innovate, digitise, and accelerate, we build AI capabilities that help them stay ahead. Based in Gouda, you join a multidisciplinary team that values autonomy, collaboration, and technical depth. You lead AI initiatives across our tech stack, applying machine learning, semantic pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, and open-source LLMs to turn financial data into actionable insights.

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Make a difference from day one

What you will do as an AI Engineer

You play a central role in scaling our Composable Banking Platform, ensuring seamless integration across business lines. By advocating responsible AI and developing transparent, value-driven applications, you help deliver software that improves efficiency, enhances decision-making, and creates measurable impact for our clients and theirs.

Together with your team, you develop high-performance data pipelines that support financial workflows and internal processes, efficiently converting knowledge into value.

You posses the following collaboration & domain skills:

  • A security-first mindset and experience with AI pipelines for both structured and unstructured data 
  • Strong collaboration skills with development, security, and operations teams 
  • Energy, ownership and the drive to achieve results together 

You optimise semantic search algorithms, develop solutions for data quality assurance, fine-tune and test AI models for specific applications and participate in MLOps activities: managing, deploying and monitoring secure models in production. Finally, you implement secure AI inference solutions that meet the high enterprise standards of the banking and finance sector, collaborating with analysts, developers, and security specialists.

What you bring as an AI Engineer

You combine deep technical expertise with curiosity about financial data and the potential of AI. You have a passion for technology, understand the complexity of financial data, and are always seeking better solutions.

Your technical expertise covers: 

  • A completed bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in IT or Finance
  • Experience with modelling and querying semantic context using knowledge graphs (e.g. Neo4j)
  • Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in vector databases (e.g. Qdrant, Pinecone, Milvus, FAISS)
  • Hands-on experience with applying, fine-tuning, and implementing open-source LLMs
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Java
  • Experience with frameworks such as LangChain and PyTorch
  • Familiarity with agentic tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cline, Cursor, or Windsurf
  • Experience with cloud ML (e.g. Azure) and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) 

About Akkuro

Akkuro is redefining Composable Banking, enabling financial institutions to seamlessly build, integrate, and expand financial services across lending, payments, investments, deposits, and more. Our modular platform provides the flexibility and adaptability needed to innovate without disrupting existing operations. With Akkuro, banks and fintechs can assemble best-in-class solutions, adapt to evolving customer needs, and future-proof their technology stack.

Designed for agility, Akkuro empowers financial organizations to deliver impactful experiences today while laying the foundation for a lifetime of financial services and innovation.

Learn more at www.akkuro.com.

Ready to make your next move?

Please fill in your details and submit the form. One of our Akkuro experts will reach out to you within one business day to schedule your personalized 30-minute demo session.

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