Senior Applied AI Engineer – Agent Runtime (Alwin by DataSnipper)

The posting, as DataSnipper wrote it

We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join the Agent Runtime team behind Alwin, our new Agentic Automation Platform for audit and finance. Alwin agents run for long times, work through multi-step audit procedures over client evidence, and return finished work papers with every number traced back to source. Humans review and sign off.

The runtime is the layer every agent depends on: the model access, the base system prompt and context, the tools (document extraction, retrieval, sandboxes, MCP integrations), the orchestration of agents and sub-agents, and the observability and evals that tell us whether an agent is performing to objective standards. You will own the applied AI half of that layer. Product teams build audit-specific agents on top of it; you decide how the base agent reasons, what tools it gets and at what abstraction, how it manages context over long horizons, and how we measure and hill-climb accuracy, speed and cost.

This is a hands-on role in a small team with a large blast radius. Your work goes in front of hundreds of thousands of audit and finance professionals, and the problems are largely open: there is no playbook for production agents in a regulated domain, so you will help write it.

ABOUT DATASNIPPER

The hardest AI problems aren't about getting an answer fast. They're about getting one people can trust.

We believe trust is essential to how society works. Every day, we rely on information that's been independently verified, from financial statements to the products we buy, to the sustainability claims companies make. Behind that trust are audit and finance professionals who examine evidence, verify information and hold organizations accountable.

At DataSnipper, we build AI solutions that empower those professionals. By making evidence easier to trace and verify, we help them focus on the judgment and expertise that make their work so important.

For our product and engineering team, this is where things get exciting. In audit, a plausible answer isn't good enough. Every output has to be explainable and traceable back to its source. We've just launched a brand new agentic platform, Alwin by DataSnipper. AI agents running in the cloud across hundreds of documents at once, reasoning across PDF, Word and Excel, with a full audit trail behind every step. There are lots of greenfield problems ahead, and real room to shape what we build and how we build it.

And we build at scale. More than 600,000 professionals across 3,000+ organizations in 175 countries rely on DataSnipper, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and all Big Four audit firms. In 2025 alone, the DataSnipper platform delivered more than $1.4 billion in productivity savings to is customers. Backed by a $100 million Series B led by Index Ventures, at a $1 billion valuation, and as proud members of 1% for the Planet, we care about how we grow, not just how fast.

If you want to build AI that professionals trust with work that
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exchange and provide clear, balanced feedback that helps others grow

• Collaboration: You build strong cross-functional relationships and influence peers through expertise, data, and empathy
• Adaptability: You navigate ambiguity calmly, model positive behavior, and help peers adjust through clear communication
• Judgment: You exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations, balance speed and accuracy, and adjust priorities proactively

WHAT WE OFFER

• Excellent salary + stock participation plan
• Flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 401K match
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored lunch
• Hybrid mode of work (at least 3 days onsite in our New York City office)
• Being part of one of the fastest-growing scale-ups in the Netherlands
• Make an impact by disrupting the finance industry with us
• A flexible and growing organization with lots of opportunities to learn and develop
• International working environment, with a team of friendly and driven colleagues
• Access to OpenUp and Talkspace, the mental health and wellness platform
• Multiple social activities for team building 🤩

RECRUITMENT STEPS

• Recruiter screen
• Hiring Manager interview
• Peer programming session
• System design interview
• Final interviews with Engineering leadership

At DataSnipper, we believe great ideas come from different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and providing every candidate with a fair and equitable hiring experience.

Our hiring decisions are merit-based and grounded in the skills, experience, potential, and capabilities relevant to the role.

We welcome applicants regardless of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes you, you.

What matters to us is what you can bring to the role, the team, and DataSnipper. 🚀