AI Engineer

Do you want to make a difference and contribute to creating a better world? Are you interested in developing your skills and knowledge, while putting your ideals to work? Join us, we are a frontrunner in ethical banking and global impact investing, and we need people like you to make change happen.

We believe that money can change the world for the better. In fact, our organisation was founded on this belief. Our mission is to create a society that protects and promotes the quality of life of all its members with human dignity at its core.

Triodos Bank is currently advancing its responsible use of AI and establishing the capabilities needed to deliver AI solutions at scale. This includes aligning strategy, governance, and ways of working across business and technology. To support this development, we are seeking an AI Engineer. You will focus on the engineering and operationalization of AI, ensuring performance, reliability, security, automation and continuous improvement—while actively mentoring colleagues and supporting a culture of continuous learning. This present an exciting opportunity to become a key pillar in the Triodos AI team, where you can see your ideas transform our organization and support us in our mission to make a positive impact on the world.

How you will make a difference

You will help us to ‘change finance to finance change’, by developing and implementing artificial intelligence solutions to solve complex problems and enhance business operations.

As part of your role, you will:

• Create, implement, deploy, and continuously optimize (gen)AI solutions that are robust, scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Orchestrate distributed deployments across cloud platforms (e.g., Azure) and on-premises infrastructures.
• Build, automate and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI applications and models; support continuous improvement of dev/test/prod environments and rollouts.
• Collaborate with data engineers to optimize data infrastructure and pipelines; work with data scientists and business units to integrate AI solutions into existing platforms and workflows.
• Prepare datasets for system evaluation; perform thorough testing and evaluation of AI system performance.
• Monitor, track, and iterate on deployed AI systems to ensure they meet business objectives and remain reliable over time.
• Enable experimentation and rapid prototyping by setting up sandbox environments and building POCs with developers/data scientists/business units.
• Scan the landscape for emerging AI/GenAI models, tools, frameworks, and agentic AI developments; maintain active awareness of advancements in the field and recommend new approaches for business adoption.
• Ensure solutions meet privacy, security, ethical and legal requirements by engaging with compliance and legal teams and maintaining alignment with data governance policies.

What you will bring

Your unique potential and your values matter for us most. We look for people who are self-aware and who think in a holistic way, always conscious of their impact on society, environment, and the economy.

To be successful in this role:

• You collaborate actively across business, IT, data engineering, data science, and platform engineering teams to harmonize objectives and share solutions. 
• You practice excellent oral and written communication, clearly explaining technical concepts, deployment strategies, and optimization techniques to technical and non-technical audiences alike. 
• You are a continuous learner, staying up-to-date on cutting-edge AI technologies, frameworks, platforms, and market trends, and actively sharing knowledge. 
• You show ownership mindset, accountability, and problem-solving drive—not only getting code to production fast, but automating, stabilizing, and improving models in production. 
• You are willing and able to mentor colleagues and help establish AI engineering as a core capability at Triodos Bank. 

Furthermore, it is expected that you will have:

• You bring a minimum of 2-3 years’ work experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or similar roles.  Through these roles you have hands on experience in engineering, agile principles, CI/CD pipelines, ModelOps or LLMOps. 
• You have experience in building out generative AI systems. You are able to design, code, and bring to production complete solutions. 
• You have foundational understanding of the way LLMs work, their application areas and weaknesses.
• AWS and Azure are of interest, Azure is preferred. You are familiar with public cloud platforms and their relevant AI services. AWS and Azure are of interest, Azure is preferred. 
• You have direct experience with generative AI models, prompt management, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), orchestration frameworks (Langchain) and LLM fine-tuning.
• Experience with Databricks is preferred.

Your future colleagues

The Accelerate AI Team is a newly created within the Data & Analytics department to responsibly implement and scale AI across the organisation. As AI Engineer, you will work closely with data scientists, data engineers, platform engineers (Azure), AI governance, security, and the AI Adoption team. You collaborate widely—across business domains, compliance, and legal specialists.

What we offer you

An inspiring work culture

The most important thing about working with us is that you are part of community that is changing the world for the better. We are constantly improving our work culture to create conditions where every person can thrive, so you are able to:

• find a sense of meaning in your work
• create positive energy and impact with your co-workers
• build mutual trust and respect in working relationships
• enjoy fulfilment at a professional and personal level

A comfortable working environment

Our award-winning sustainable head office is based in Driebergen-Zeist, the Netherlands at the Reehorst Estate, just a 3 minutes’ walk from the train station. Combined with working from home, it is an inspiring place to work and connect with your colleagues.

And of course, great remuneration and working conditions:

• a salary appropriate to the position, our remuneration policy and your experience
• an attractive pension policy
• a mobility card (including free private travels)
• flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home
• reimbursement of a company bicycle to the max of € 1,500
• 27 holiday days with a 36-hour working week, plus the option of buying 2 weeks of extra holiday days
• extra leave to contribute to voluntary work
• a range of education and training opportunities
• the option to join our collective health insurance
• a working from home allowance per home office day
• suitable home office equipment up to € 750 every 5 years

Sounds interesting?

If you feel that you want to make a difference, don’t hesitate to join the Triodos community by applying for this role. Please send us your motivation letter and resume.

Everyone is welcome to join us. Our culture is built on values that aim to benefit both society and individuals. We are committed to equity and diversity, and we value everyone’s perspective. We strive to create an environment in which all co-workers and our broader community can feel safe and included.

The closing date for applications is: 28 April 2026

If the role interests you but you still have some questions, please connect with us via email: careers@triodos.com. If there are any additional adjustments you may need during the application process, please let us know.

We also don’t want to miss out on candidates who feel they don’t exactly match the job description, so if this is a role that sounds interesting to you, and you feel you could add value, please apply!

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Who we are

Triodos Bank is a leading expert in sustainable banking, founded in 1980 in the Netherlands, with branches in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, and Spain.

Triodos Investment Management is a globally recognised leader in impact investing, that currently manages 20 funds invested in both Europe and emerging markets.

Triodos Regenerative Money Centre is our business unit launched in 2019 with the explicit goal of restoring and regenerating nature and society.

We are a certified B Corp since 2015. B Corp is a growing global community of successful and sustainable companies that create positive social impact and change.

We are also one of the founders of The Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a global network of independent banks using finance to deliver sustainable economic, social, and environmental development.

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