AI Systems Engineer - Agents & Inference - Netherlands (hybrid), Netherlands
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer — open 4 days.
Help build and maintain Axelera Wingman and the Axelera agentic AI platform.
About the role
This role involves building and maintaining Axelera Wingman and Axelera's agentic AI platform, focusing on agent capabilities, execution environments, and software integrations. You will validate the platform by deploying models and running AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Build reliable agent systems, intelligent tools, and application integrations.
- Develop secure, scalable execution environments for demanding AI workloads.
- Deploy and optimize computer vision models, LLM services, and inference infrastructure to validate Axelera's agentic AI platform.
- Own capabilities from implementation and hardware validation through production operation.
- Test functionality, security boundaries, hardware behavior, and failure recovery.
What you'll need
- Practical experience building with AI agents, model APIs, and tools.
- Understanding of how agents interact with applications, manage state, and recover from failures.
- Ability to use coding agents effectively to scope, implement, and verify work.
- Experience with tool calling, structured outputs, streaming, or MCP.
- Comfort working with Linux, processes, resource allocation, and diagnosing failures across the software and compute stack.
- Application of sound security principles to permissions, credentials, and workload isolation.
- Hands-on experience deploying computer vision models and working with LLM services.
- Ability to use representative applications and inference workloads to verify platform correctness on real hardware.
- Skills to assess accuracy, latency, throughput, and resource use.
- Experience investigating failures across model code, inference SDKs, and execution environments.
Nice to have
- Software Engineering: Python, Rust or another systems language. APIs, databases and native integrations. TypeScript/React and Tauri experience.
- Workload Orchestration: Job submission, scheduling, quotas, concurrency. Result retrieval and reproducible environments. SDK and driver compatibility management.
- Security: Authentication, authorization, least privilege. Access revocation, sandboxing, network security. Protection of users' files and data.
- Cloud Operations (Google Cloud/AWS): Containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD. Monitoring, incident investigation. Safe deployments, rollback and recovery.
- Evaluation & Retrieval: Reproducible benchmarks for model quality, agent behavior and task success. Grounded retrieval and traceable results.
- Fine-tuning, multimodal applications, distributed inference.
- Desktop packaging.
- Experience maintaining developer tools.
Image/video processing, detection, classification, segmentation. Calibration, quantization and hardware-aware optimization.
Skills: AI agents, AI workloads, accelerated computing, computer vision models, LLM services
This role has been open 4 days — well below the 65-day median for AI/ML Hardware Engineering roles.
AI/ML Hardware Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
518
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Axelera AI | All employers we track in this specialty (518 roles · 76 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 518 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 3 | 5796 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 4 d | 65 d (−61 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: AI agents, AI workloads, accelerated computing, computer vision models, LLM services
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 106 open roles · median 97 d
- NVIDIA · 85 open roles · median 65 d
- AMD · 43 open roles · median 60 d
- Micron Technology · 32 open roles · median 37 d
- Mobileye · 25 open roles · median 51 d
- Analog Devices · 14 open roles · median 22 d
How we counted: 518 open AI/ML Hardware Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 76 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.