Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping

Picnic TechnologiesAmsterdamOn-siteFull-time4 Sept 2026

Picnic is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction for Agentic Shopping, building a conversational grocery assistant that helps households plan and shop. The role requires hands-on expertise in multi-turn conversational AI, fine-tuning open-weight LLMs, production RAG systems, and evaluation/safety loops, with strong Python skills and experience with tools like PyTorch, LangGraph, vLLM, Pydantic AI, Qdrant, or DeepEval.

What you'll do

Lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences
Lead system architecture for multi-turn conversational agents, balancing latency, safety guardrails, and inference costs
Mentor engineers across the organization on building production-grade agentic systems
Drive rapid prototyping and productionization, writing production code to unblock complex challenges
Design and implement systems architectures for multi-turn conversational agents using open-weight models and techniques like fine-tuning, distillation, and RAG
Establish continuous offline and online evaluation for mission completion, basket correctness, customer effort, clarification quality, acceptance and corrections, safety, reliability, latency and cost
Collaborate with product, design, and product teams to define technical trade-offs and align on agent capabilities

What you need

Must-have

PythonPyTorchLangGraphvLLMPydantic AIQdrantDeepEvalRAG

Nice-to-have

RetrievalRankingRecommendation modelsDeep learningSequence modellingRepresentation learning

Soft skills

Technical leadershipMentoringCross-functional collaborationCommunicationProblem solving

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