Forward Deployed Engineer | Utilities

You translate complex issues in energy and infrastructure into AI that is actually used.

From grid congestion and connection requests to inspections and customer processes: utilities work with complex systems, large amounts of information, and high demands on reliability.

As a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you work closely with the customer's operations. You will turn "we want to do something with AI" into a usable use case that you can test within weeks, or you will honestly say that it is not (yet) possible. Then you design and build the solution and launch it live in cycles of days. And then you make yourself redundant.

What will you do?

You bridge the gap between business and technology: you sit at the table with the client, design the solution, and often implement it yourself.

• Clarifying use cases: together with business development, you conduct discovery conversations, test use cases against real data and systems, and build a proof-of-value in days.

• Design and execution: you design the agentic architecture, choose the pattern that fits each situation, and bring the solution into production in short cycles, together with our AI Engineers.

• Handover and measurement: the customer can run the solution themselves, and after go-live, you measure whether it is actually being used. That is your benchmark.

• Making us smarter: what you learn, you make reusable for the next customer, and you help new FDEs get started.

Approximately 10% of your time goes to pre-sales and 90% to delivery; business development is commercially responsible.

AI for processes that must keep running

You are familiar with the practice of energy companies, grid operators, or other utilities: technical assets, work orders, customer inquiries, data streams, and the coordination between operational and IT systems. Think of:

• Processing connection requests faster during times of grid congestion, with AI that organizes information and helps employees with assessment.

• Agents that summarize and prepare inspection reports, technical documentation, and work orders for mechanics and planners.

• Customer contact regarding contracts and annual statements.

What do you bring?

• Demonstrable experience in utilities, such as energy, grid management, or technical infrastructure: you know the processes, data, and systems from the inside out.

• You have designed, put into production, and maintained AI solutions with LLMs and agents, including evals, guardrails, monitoring, and security.

• Strong in Python and SQL, and hands-on with at least one cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and a data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Fabric.

• You work daily with coding agents and critically evaluate what they deliver.

• Experience in a customer-facing role, such as consultancy, pre-sales, solutions engineering, or your own startup.

• You speak and write Dutch and English fluently.

Nice to have: experience with asset management, smart meter data, or OT/IT, and with classic ML such as load forecasting.

What this is NOT

• No individual secondment. You work on projects on behalf of adesso, with a team behind you.

• No PoC graveyard. We build to use.

• No slides without code. Your advice comes with a working version.

• No agent just because it's possible. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best, and you say so.

The team

You will become part of our AI Engineering team: AI engineering consultants in two roles. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) owns the customer problem and designs the solution, including the agentic architecture. The AI Engineer delves into development, data, MLOps, and scaling, and thinks along with the customer's request about the right approach.

You will have the freedom to shape your own work, but you are never solely responsible for all specialisms.

Unsure which role best suits you? Just apply; we'll figure it out together.

Why adesso? Because with us, you can really help build.

At adesso Netherlands, it's about more than just technology. We build smart solutions that genuinely add value for our customers. No endless experiments or AI because it's trendy, but technology that works and makes an impact.

We are part of the international adesso Group, with over 11,500 colleagues at more than 60 locations. At the same time, in the Netherlands, we are a relatively small and personal team, with short lines of communication, a lot of freedom, and room for your own initiative.

Big enough to make an impact, small enough to feel the difference.

AI-native: we embrace AI, also in our own work

We believe that AI is fundamentally changing how we build software, work with data, and help customers. That's why we're not building isolated experiments, but data platforms, AI-first applications, and agentic solutions that become an integral part of business processes.

This also applies to how we work ourselves. With our Agentic Delivery approach and our own tools, you can really fly:

• Context and knowledge base: agents work with what's really happening with the client, and knowledge and decisions remain traceable for both humans and agents.

• AgentOps and governance: insight into what agents are doing and control over what they are allowed to do, so they work safely and within the rules.

• adSCAILE: our own framework with which you build together with AI agents, integrated, secure, and traceable, in cycles of two to four days instead of weeks-long sprints.

You will use these tools daily and help develop them further. Moreover, adesso is a Select Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network. And we remain critical: not everything needs AI. The best solution always comes first.

And perhaps most importantly: the people

You will join a team where craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, and knowledge sharing are central. You will work with experienced specialists and grow in technical vision and in responsibility for customer relationships.

We love colleagues who are curious, share knowledge, and help each other move forward. People who are good at their profession but also enjoy collaborating. You will be given trust, responsibility, and the freedom to actually implement ideas.

What do you get from us?

• €5,850–€7,150 gross per month based on 40 hours;

• 8% holiday pay;

• Contract for 32 to 40 hours per week;

• A lease car or mobility allowance of your choice, in addition to your salary;

• 27 vacation days and 4 study days;

• €3,600 personal development budget per year and room for certifications;

• Hybrid working with flexible working hours;

• Good pension scheme;

• Growth opportunities in a specialist track;

• International knowledge and development opportunities, combined with a close-knit Dutch team;

Shall we get acquainted?

You don't need to meet every technical requirement. We are mainly curious about what you have built, what choices you have made, and where you want to grow.

A CV or LinkedIn profile is enough to start the conversation. This will be followed by an introduction, a technical interview, and a practical case.

At adesso, you don't just work on the technology of tomorrow. You also get the space to help decide how we build it.