# AI Engineer - Financial Market Compliance
Join NiCE's new AI engineering team in Alkmaar to help shape the future of financial market compliance. You'll co-found and build world-class AI models that support compliance officers in communication surveillance, market surveillance, and trade surveillance.
## Key Responsibilities
- Co-found and shape the new AI engineering team in NiCE Netherlands, influencing architecture, tooling, and culture from day one
- Train and fine-tune LLMs, SLMs, and other ML/DL models for compliance use cases
- Architect training pipelines that integrate with data capture platforms
- Optimize inference pipelines to deliver AI capabilities cost-efficiently at scale
- Evaluate emerging AI techniques (RAG, agents, distillation, fine-tuning strategies) and bring promising ones into production
- Own explainability and auditability end-to-end, including interpretation techniques, model cards, and evidence artifacts for compliance officers and regulators
## Requirements
- MSc or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field (or equivalent hands-on experience)
- Solid experience with modern ML/DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face)
- Experience training and/or fine-tuning LLMs or SLMs
- Strong NLP foundations applied to real-world problems (sequence classification, named entity recognition, semantic search, RAG over unstructured financial communications)
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure (training pipelines, GPU clusters, MLOps)
- Pragmatic mindset focused on getting models into production
- Bonus: experience in financial services, RegTech, or highly regulated domains
## What We Offer
- Opportunity to help build a new AI engineering team from the ground up
- Access to dedicated high-end GPU infrastructure
- Rock-solid data platform (NTR-X)
- Competitive salary and strong benefits package
- Personal development budget for training, conferences, and certifications
- Hybrid working: 2 days in office, 3 days from home
- Dynamic, international, collaborative team culture