Senior AI Engineer

📍 Amsterdam - Hybrid (minimum 50% at the office)

⏱️ 36-40 hours per week

💰 €4500 - €5800 per month

🌍 Futurewhiz is a B Corp

At Futurewhiz, we have one mission that unites us all:

Empowering every child to grow by shaping the future of personalized learning for the next generation.

Every day, we create digital learning products that challenge, motivate, and help children aged 3 to 18 grow. Futurewhiz is looking for a Senior AI Engineer! Do you want to help thousands of children learn through play while ensuring responsible screen time? Then we are looking for you!

🏰 About Futurewhiz, Squla and StudyGo

For nearly 15 years, Futurewhiz has been the market leader in EdTech in the Netherlands. Our brands – including Squla and StudyGo – help children and teenagers aged 3 to 18 learn and grow at their own level and pace. Our mission is clear: "Empowering every child to grow." We’ve been a certified B Corp since 2020, which means we strive for a strong balance between purpose and profit.

Squla is a popular educational brand among (primary school) children, parents and teachers. Every day, more than 160,000 children at home and more than half a million children play the best games and quizzes at school in the classroom. Our mission? Helping children progress through play! We do this by staying close to children's experiences. And to use gaming elements, attractive UX designs and current, changing content.

StudyGo (formerly WRTS) is the go-to online platform for secondary school students to prepare for exams. From vocabulary practice and assignments to chatting with tutors and attending group lessons, we offer a comprehensive toolkit to help students succeed. With over 650,000 annual users, StudyGo has become one of the key digital platforms for secondary education.

🎮 What will you do as our Senior AI Engineer?

As a Senior AI Engineer for FutureWhiz’s content creation team, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services and supporting tools that enable both automated and human-in-the-loop generation of high-quality educational content. You will work closely with content creators to help them develop production-ready versions of their vibecoded apps and set up robust backend infrastructure to support their needs. You’ll work in a team of developers and content creators, collaborating more broadly with product managers, educational specialists, and other cross-functional teams.

🌟 Your role and impact

• Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines to support content creation at scale.

• Assist content creators in developing, refining, and deploying their applications, ensuring production readiness.

• Develop both frontend and backend code as needed, with a primary focus on backend development (Python required; React is a plus).

• Apply software architecture principles to design robust, maintainable systems; experience with CI/CD and functional programming is a plus.

• Act as a coach and mentor, supporting colleagues and content creators experimenting with building their own apps for minor tasks.

• Ensure code quality through best practices, tools integration, and code reviews.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, delivering effective, scalable solutions.

🔥 Who are you?

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer who can think strategically and act practically.

You should also resonate with the following qualities:

• Collaborative mindset, working closely with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

• Proactive problem solver, able to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues efficiently.

• Strong communicator, comfortable mentoring and coaching others, including non-developers.

• Adaptable and eager to learn new technologies and approaches.

• Passionate about building reliable, scalable systems that support educational impact.

💰What do we offer?

• A gross monthly salary of €4500 to €5800 (based on 40 hours, depending on experience).

• 24 vacation days + 3 assigned days off + 1 skipping school day.

• Collective pension and health insurance.

• A €600 annual learning budget for your professional development.

• Unlimited access to external coaches through Inuka Coaching.

• Unlimited access to Goodhabitz training programs for professional and personal growth.

Additionally:

• Lifetime access to StudyGo and Squla accounts.

• Office next to Bijlmer Arena station (with the possibility of getting a Swapfiets or an OV business card if you live over 7km from the office).

• A MacBook for work.

• Payroll Giving option to contribute to a good cause.

• Healthy lunches at the office, unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks.

• A Culture Crew that organizes fun activities like outings, pub quizzes, ski trips, and laser tag.

😻 Who are we?

We’re a passionate and diverse team, brought together by a shared mission: helping children thrive in their learning journey, and empowering them to grow through personalised education. 

Our culture is welcoming and authentic—we believe the best work happens when people can be themselves. Whether you’re into book clubs, monthly socials, movie nights, cake-baking contests, Mario Kart showdowns, or ski trips, you’ll find a community that feels like home.  Here at Futurewhiz, there’s something for everyone, and we can’t wait to welcome you!

Our platforms are for everyone, and the same applies to our workplace.

The beauty lies in the diverse backgrounds, ideas, experiences, and perspectives of our people. This diversity enables us to help all young learners realize their educational potential, regardless of who they are—or who we are. At Futurewhiz, we actively embrace each other’s differences, fostering an authentic environment where people can truly be themselves. This makes it easier for others to do the same. We’re committed to nurturing a diverse and inclusive culture that starts here in our office and extends across all our platforms—and everyone is welcome on this journey.

🤖 Our use of AI

At Futurewhiz we believe in fully embracing AI in our way of work.

AI is transforming our roles and we’ll shape this future together. We use AI to accelerate our mission: to move faster, go further, and improve our support to children, parents, and teachers.

Do you have any questions about AI and our use of it in the recruitment process? Send us a message to recruitment@futurewhiz.com

Will you be our new Senior AI Engineer?

We’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t check every box! If you’re excited about the role, just be yourself and go for it. We value diverse perspectives and are always curious to learn what makes you unique.

Ready to join us? Simply upload your CV and a short motivation via the application button, and we’ll be in touch soon. We can’t wait to meet you!