AI engineer

At Cocoroco.com we're looking for an AI engineer to join our team.

About The Job At Cocoroco we are looking for an AI engineer to further build and scale our AI matching capabilities.

About Us We are Cocoroco. We are building the most trusted talent platform that enables companies to easily connect with high quality remote talent. We believe there will always be a need for skilled people and for a flexible and efficient way to find talent. By combining remote work, skill based matching, and deep local market expertise within the platform, companies and global talent can easily find each other, handle payroll, and get to work immediately.

The role To build out our data and AI foundation, we are now looking for an AI Engineer to join us at our Herengracht office in the center of Amsterdam. You report directly to the co-founder and will closely work with our tech team and set up the data foundation to launch innovative use cases that further strengthen our platform’s matching capabilities. This gives you the opportunity to be part of a profitable and fast growing tech startup, with plenty of room to help define our data roadmap. The ideal candidate is able to take ownership of our data & AI platform and lead its further development.

Key Responsibilities

Own the Cocoroco data & AI platform, ensuring its long‑term scalability, reliability, and evolution

Manage the end‑to‑end data lifecycle, from overseeing ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines to data transformation in dbt, ensuring high data integrity for both analysis and production models

Act as a technical partner for the founders, translating ideas into structured experiments, MVPs, and production‑ready use cases that deliver business value

Develop, deploy, and maintain ML models

Build and scale innovative LLM use cases while maintaining and optimizing existing RAG pipelines

Deliver insights to the business by building and maintaining dashboards in Looker Studio

Stay updated with AI advancements by researching the very latest technologies, and being able to quickly evaluate and apply them

What To Expect Within 3 months you will:

Be onboarded onto our modern data platform, composed of GCP, Terraform, and dbt

Build new data models, contributing to the backbone of our data ecosystem and delivering BI insights in Looker

Implement and deploy our own domain‑aware chatbot

Gain a clear vision of Cocoroco’s data landscape and potential

Within 6 Months You Will

Take full ownership of our analytics infrastructure

Build a robust MLOps framework and ship predictive models to production

Connect diverse data sources and model the resulting data

Be pivotal in Cocoroco’s data and AI roadmap

Requirements If you don't check every single box below but are excited about our mission, we still want to hear from you. We encourage learning on the job.

Technical Expertise

At least 2+ years of relevant work experience in AI engineering, Data Science or another relevant technical field, with a proven track record in bringing AI/ML models (including LLMs) from concept into production

Proficient in Python, SQL, and Git, with a focus on writing clean, production‑ready code

Experience with ELT/ETL pipelines and data warehousing

Hands‑on experience with dbt (data build tool)

Experience in managing and deploying applications in cloud environments. Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specifically is a plus

Strong understanding of MLOps and/or LLMOps concepts

Experience with containerization (Docker) and a solid understanding of CI/CD processes

Experience with building business dashboards in visualisation tools (e.g. Looker Studio)

Familiarity with Infrastructure‑As‑Code, preferably Terraform

Soft Skills

You are pragmatic, prioritizing simple solutions that drive immediate business value over over‑engineered complexity

You enjoy working as part of a team, coordinating effectively with both internal colleagues and external partners

You think critically about the business implications of your work and strive for the long‑term stability and scalability of all applications

You are a strong communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non‑technical business stakeholders

You have the ability to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic startup environment

Nice To Have

Start‑up and/or scale‑up experience

Experience with marketplaces

A dog you can bring to the office

Perks And Benefits

Competitive salary, on a labor contract

Opportunity to work on innovative projects

Professional development and growth opportunities

Flexible working hours and remote work options

Application process

Submit your resume and motivation why you are a good fit for this role

First review in phone call (15 mins)

Cultural face‑to‑face interview (60 mins)

Technical assessment face‑to‑face interview (90 mins)

Offer

Will you become our new AI engineer within a fast growing, profitable tech startup in Amsterdam? You will work directly with the founders and the rest of the tech team, learn at high speed, and grow with the company. We look forward to your application.

Apply for the job Do you want to join our team as our new AI engineer? Then we'd love to hear about you!

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