Full-Stack AI Engineer (Senior) at Ascending AI

Ascending AI develops tools designed to help people maintain autonomy, strengthen relationships, and pursue meaningful goals. The company built an initial product enabling users to map their relationships and spot communication patterns for daily clarity and intentional living.

The role involves designing, developing, and optimising innovative AI-powered products. Engineers work directly with founders and a small team, contributing to architecture decisions while potentially mentoring junior developers.

Required Qualifications

Minimum 5+ years software engineering experience

Demonstrated ability to ship complex products independently or in small teams

Strong programming across multiple languages

Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Vercel, AWS)

Active AI/ML project experience; familiarity with LLM deployment preferred

Fluent English

Preferred Qualifications

Agentic Deployment: LLM-powered tool building (assistants, copilots, agents); UX-focused development

Evaluations & ML: Safety/performance evaluation design in generative AI; fine-tuning, synthetic data, prompt engineering, model comparisons

Compensation: EUR 100,000-150,000 plus stock-based rewards

Location: Remote (hybrid option) or Amsterdam

Relocation support available to Amsterdam

Funded by EUR 5 million of founders' own capital to stay initially independent.