Senior Engineer – AI-Native IDE & Agentic Developer Tooling

About the Company

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Employment Type: Permanent

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer in AI-Native IDE & Agentic Developer Tooling to join a small, highly technical R&D team in Amsterdam. You will explore and build the next generation of AI-native developer experiences — from intelligent IDE capabilities and coding agents to context-aware, tool-using and self-verifying development workflows. This is a highly hands-on role with significant technical ownership. You will turn emerging ideas in LLMs, coding agents and developer tooling into working prototypes, evaluate new architectures, and help shape future product direction.

Responsibilities

• Build working prototypes and technical demos for AI-native IDE and developer-tooling capabilities.
• Explore how modern coding agents handle context, tool use, planning, orchestration and verification.
• Design and prototype AI-assisted and agentic developer workflows that improve developer productivity and experience.
• Evaluate emerging IDE, LLM and agent architectures hands-on and translate findings into practical technical recommendations.
• Experiment with new approaches to context engineering, agent orchestration and coding-agent evaluation.
• Collaborate with universities, open-source communities, researchers and industry partners.
• Work closely with international R&D teams to influence technical direction and future product capabilities.

Qualifications

• Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate.

• Strong hands-on experience building IDE, developer-tooling or engineering-productivity features.

• Good understanding of IDE technologies such as IntelliJ Platform, PSI, LSP, or similar architectures.

• Practical experience with LLMs, coding agents, context engineering, agent orchestration, or evaluation.

• Strong software engineering skills and the ability to independently turn an early-stage idea into a working prototype.

• Strong engineering judgment and ability to evaluate emerging technologies beyond the proof-of-concept stage.

• Strong English communication skills and confidence working with international technical teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with compiler toolchains, build systems, runtimes, debugging, or developer test infrastructure.
• Contributions to developer tools, AI coding tools, research projects, or open-source communities.
• Experience building developer tooling for ecosystems with limited documentation, tooling, or training data.
• Experience with code intelligence, code completion, static analysis, refactoring, or program analysis.
• Strong technical communication skills and the ability to clearly explain and advocate for new technical ideas.

Pay range and compensation package

The position is based in Amsterdam and offers a competitive compensation package within an international R&D environment.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply in alignment with standard equal opportunity and non-discrimination principles.