AI Engineer

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NiCE in Alkmaar is recruiting an AI Engineer for a fulltime onsite role to co-found and shape the new AI engineering team, building world-class AI models for financial market compliance from day one. You’ll train and fine‑tune LLMs and SLMs, design end‑to‑end training and inference pipelines, optimize cost‑efficient inference at scale, and own explainability and auditability with model cards and evidence artifacts for regulators. Ideal candidates have MSc or PhD or equivalent hands‑on experience, strong PyTorch or TensorFlow and Hugging Face skills, NLP on regulatory text, and ML infra know‑how, with a bonus for regulated financial work; apply with a focus on production impact and cross‑functional collaboration.

Join us in shaping the future of financial market compliance. We're investing in a new AI capability at our R&D group in Alkmaar, and we're looking for an AI Engineer to help build it from the ground up.

Our goal: build world-class AI models that help compliance officers sleep well at night — AI they can trust, and AI that gives them proof. To get there, we're investing in serious infrastructure (including dedicated high-end GPUs) and, more importantly, in the experts who know how to make the most of it. If you want to help shape this future and change the world of communication, market, and trade surveillance — we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Co-found and shape our new AI engineering team in NiCE Netherlands — you'll influence architecture, tooling, and culture from day one
• Train and fine-tune LLMs, SLMs, and other ML/DL models for compliance use cases such as communication surveillance, market surveillance, and trade surveillance
• Architect training pipelines that integrate cleanly with our data capture platforms
• Optimize inference pipelines to deliver AI capabilities cost-efficiently at scale
• Evaluate emerging AI techniques (RAG, agents, distillation, fine-tuning strategies, etc.) and bring the most promising ones into production
• Own explainability and auditability end-to-end — from choosing the right interpretation technique (SHAP, attention analysis, custom audit trails) to producing model cards and evidence artefacts that satisfy compliance officers and regulators. This is a first-class engineering concern here, not an afterthought.

What We're Looking For

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience
• Solid experience with modern ML/DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face)
• Experience training and/or fine-tuning LLMs or SLMs
• Strong NLP foundations applied to real-world problems — for example: sequence classification, named entity recognition, semantic search, or RAG over unstructured financial communications. Familiarity with the quirks of financial and regulatory text (abbreviations, jargon, high-stakes edge cases) is a plus
• Familiarity with ML infrastructure: training pipelines, GPU clusters, MLOps
• Pragmatic mindset — you care about getting models into production, not just into notebooks
• Bonus: experience in financial services, RegTech, or any highly regulated domain

What We Offer

• A rare opportunity to help build a new AI engineering team from day one
• Access to dedicated high-end GPU infrastructure for model training and experimentation
• A rock-solid data platform (NTR-X) on which to run your models
• Competitive salary and strong benefits package
• Personal development budget for training, conferences, and certifications
• A dynamic, international company with a collaborative team culture
• Hybrid working: 2 days in the office, 3 days from home
• Meaningful work on systems used by some of the world's largest financial institutions

About Us

We're an energetic, technically-minded team of software builders based in Alkmaar. Our belief: AI-First is AI-Proof — meaning that the teams who embed AI deeply into how they build and operate will be the ones who remain relevant and competitive as the technology matures. We care deeply about engineering quality, craftsmanship, and building products that matter — and we're using AI to do it faster and better than ever before.

Our culture is grounded in three pillars: competence, craftsmanship, and trustworthiness. We work in a social, international, and inclusive environment where your ideas shape our technology. Our office is easy to reach, our culture is collaborative, and we value a healthy work/life balance.

The AI features we're actively building include false-positive elimination, automated investigation workflows, and advanced compliance search — capabilities that were previously intractable and are now unlocked by AI. Engineers joining now will be core contributors to this platform from the ground up.