Forward Deployed Engineer
AgentLabs is an agentic transformation studio. We believe AI should make work better for the people doing it, so we build agentic systems where agents carry the volume, people keep the judgment, and the client's team owns the result. Production-grade agentic AI: governed, auditable, and theirs to run. - The role Forward deployed engineer means the engineer goes to the client. This is a senior role: you embed inside a Dutch mid-market company, at least three days a week on site, and build the agentic systems we scoped together with them: agents wired into their live systems, their data, and their people's daily work. You are accountable for one outcome: agents doing real work in the client's production workflows, and a client team that can run the system after handover. A delivered artifact that nobody uses does not count. Two things this role is not. It is not pre-sales wearing a fresher title, and it is not a consultancy bench: you are matched to one engagement at a time and you own its delivery end to end. - What a week looks like Most of the week at the client site, working next to the people whose workflows you are changing. Protected build time, because embedded engineers who spend the whole week in meetings ship nothing. A standing session with the studio on architecture, governance gates, and what your engagement is teaching us. - Compensation and engagement We work with both employed and freelance engineers. Employment: €90,000 to €130,000 base, depending on what you bring. Freelance: a day rate in the €700 to €950 range, scoped per engagement. If you are strong and the band is your objection, apply anyway and say so. - How the talent pool works We are building this pool ahead of demand, and we want to be straight about what that means: applying does not put you in a queue for one open seat. It starts a conversation, and when an engagement opens that matches you, we scope timing and terms together. - Why AgentLabs Most forward deployed roles in the Netherlands today are platform vendors hiring engineers to deploy their own product. Here you build on whatever stack the client actually runs, and the system you leave behind belongs to them.
- Senior
- full-time
- €90k - €130k