AI Engineering Director
Permanent | Hybrid (Amsterdam) |
Riverflex is building a frontier AI engineering practice — the kind our clients wish existed as they navigate complex intelligent transformation programmes. You lead it. You own developing the architecture, the team, our products & accelerators, and the trajectory of AI engineering at Riverflex. This is not a management-only role: you architect and code alongside your team, ship systems to production for blue-chip clients, and develop the reusable accelerators that make our delivery best-in-class.
This role reports directly to the founders and carries a clear path to Director — Riverflex's most senior level — with a profit-share compensation model that rewards practice ownership. You co-create new service offerings as the AI market evolves, sit in the room with C-level clients, and partner with the founding team on commercial growth. The path is yours to build.
About Riverflex
Riverflex was founded in Amsterdam and London in 2018, eventually growing into a global team of consultants united by a mission to help courageous leaders drive transformative change. Today, we offer an integrated service through three service pillars: strategy and transformation consulting that Creates Change, talent services that Build Teams, and business-accelerating products that Augment Intelligence. For more information, visit www.riverflex.com.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Own system design decisions across LLM-based applications, agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and model routing
Offering Development and Products & Accelerators
Team Build & Scaling
Commercial & Client Engagement
Job Requirements
Deep capability in modern AI systems: LLMs, agentic architectures, RAG, evaluation, model routing
The following are a plus:
Ex-startup CTO (Series A–C, AI-first product company), senior staff/principal engineer at a scale-up (e.g. Booking, Adyen, Picnic, Mollie), or frontier-lab IC (e.g. Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Mistral, Cohere) ready to commercialise
What We Offer
Access to the latest tech & tools, including laptop, home office budget, and professional software like ChatGPT pro, Sembly, SlideHub, Notion, and Riverflex’s own in-house software.
Why This Role
You anchor AI engineering at Riverflex for the next 3–5 years. The mandate is real: scale a team, ship production AI for blue-chip clients, and build the IP that defines how Riverflex delivers. The founders are in the room with you, the clients are serious, and the autonomy is yours from day one. If you've hit a ceiling on ownership elsewhere, this is the role where you build the practice you've been waiting for.
Apply Now
Interested in this role? Submit your CV and a brief note on your relevant experience through the Riverflex website or reach out to our talent team directly.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, medical condition, or disability. Even if you believe you do not tick all the aforementioned requirements for the role, we still encourage you to take the time to apply.
