Careers · AI TRAINEESN° 2026 · TRAINEE

    Learn the field at full speed.

    Become a full AI Agentic Engineer in 12+ months — while working for the largest organisations in the Netherlands. ANWB, Wolters Kluwer, AFAS. With training, coaching and a team of peers around you.

    Cohorts every quarter · Utrecht + client site
    Programme12+ months
    BackgroundOpen — not just CS
    CoachSenior engineer, weekly
    A · Manifesto

    The best AI talent doesn't exist yet.
    So we train it ourselves.

    Universities are behind. Bootcamps don't go deep enough. And nowhere is demand higher than for engineers who truly master agentic AI, context engineering and evaluation.

    So we built our own training programme. A year of work. Cohorts. Senior coaches. Real client work from month three. Not for show — to give you a career that doesn't exist elsewhere.

    B · What you get with us

    Six reasons to start here.

    · 01

    Work that matters

    Work directly for ANWB, Wolters Kluwer, AFAS and other largest organisations in the Netherlands. No sandbox, no 'learning environment' — production from day one.

    · 02

    Full training programme

    We spent a year building a curriculum you won't get elsewhere: agentic engineering, context engineering, evaluation, prompt architecture, security, multi-agent systems.

    · 03

    A cohort of peers

    You don't learn alone. We hire in cohorts so you have peers around you from day one going through the same thing — at the same pace.

    · 04

    A senior coach, every week

    One-on-one with a senior engineer. Code reviews, mentor talks, sparring on architecture and career. No 'just figure it out'.

    · 05

    Latest frameworks and models

    We sit on the bleeding edge ourselves — Claude, GPT, Gemini, multi-agent frameworks. You don't learn them from books; you use them in production the day they ship.

    · 06

    Room for you

    Personal development, your own experiments, access to the ai.nl community. Work hard, but also grow as a person.

    C · Your first year

    From bootcamp to production — in four leaps.

    1. · Month 1–3

      Bootcamp

      Intense curriculum. Tooling, agentic patterns, context engineering, evaluation. Live cohort sessions, code labs, mini projects.

    2. · Month 3–6

      Shadow on client projects

      You work on real client work alongside your senior coach. Pair programming, code reviews, fast feedback.

    3. · Month 6–12

      Own responsibility

      You get your own scope on client projects. Demos, evaluations, cost metrics. Increasing ownership.

    4. · Month 12+

      Full engineer

      You're a full Agentic Engineer. Option to stay with The Automation Group or join a client as permanent staff (Deta-vast).

    D · Does this fit you?

    Not a checklist. A profile.

    • Bachelor/Master cognitive level or equivalent proof
    • Diverse backgrounds welcome: CS, math, physics, philosophy, cognitive science
    • Curious, critical, learns by building
    • Affinity with code (10 years of experience not required)
    • Strong Dutch or English written communication
    • Willing to come to Utrecht or client office often

    Not a perfect match? Send your story anyway. We hire for thinking, not for CVs.

    Supported by

    You're not alone — ai.nl stands next to you.

    Our sister organisation ai.nl is the AI platform of the Netherlands. Community, events, news, frameworks. From day one you tap into the broadest AI network in the country.

    ai.nl
    Cohorts every quarter

    Ready to become one?

    Send us your story, CV or LinkedIn. We respond within five working days. First conversations are short and sharp.

    StartNext cohort
    LocationUtrecht
    TypeFull-time
    Mailinfo@ai.nl