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# Staff AI Deployment Engineer, Amsterdam at Altana 

- **Company:** Altana 
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/altanaai/jobs/8034242003

## Job description

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

The Opportunity at Altana

The Implementation team is the tip of the spear in getting Altana's platform into production inside our customers' businesses. We own the path from signed contract to realized value: standing up integrations, wiring Altana into the customer's existing business processes, and making sure the insight we deliver actually changes decisions on the customer's side.

We are a delivery organization with a technical core. We work directly with customer stakeholders — from trade compliance analysts to enterprise IT — and we work just as closely with Altana's engineering, data science, and product teams to translate what we learn in the field into what gets built next.

You Will

Design and deploy agentic AI systems

- Design, build, and deploy agentic AI workflows — multi-step agents, tool and function calling, and automations — that power the customer's business processes and act on real customer data
- Ground agents in customer context: connect them to the right data sources, APIs, and systems of record, and define the tools, permissions, and guardrails they operate within
- Write and refine the prompts, system instructions, and evaluation criteria that make an agent reliable enough to trust in production
- Build the orchestration and human-in-the-loop checkpoints that keep agentic workflows safe, auditable, and correctable in a customer's environment
- Monitor, evaluate, and iterate on deployed processes — tracking accuracy, cost, and latency, and tuning them as the customer's data and needs evolve

Own technology implementation and delivery

- Lead customer implementations end to end: scoping, configuration, integration, validation, go-live, and handoff to steady-state support
- Configure and deploy Altana's platform capabilities against real customer data and real customer workflows, resolving the gap between what the product does today and what this customer needs
- Build the connective tissue — API integrations, data handoffs, automations, and internal tooling — that makes an implementation work, using AI-assisted development to move quickly
- Drive implementations to a definition of done that includes adoption, not just deployment: the customer's team is using it, in their process, without us in the room

Engage customers as a trusted technical partner

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact through implementation — running working sessions, demos, or technical deep dives with stakeholders from analyst to executive
- Elicit requirements from customers who often can't fully articulate them yet, and translate business problems into concrete technical scope
- Communicate credibly in both directions: explain platform behavior, data quality realities, and trade-offs to non-technical audiences, and represent customer constraints faithfully back to Altana
- Manage expectations, timelines, and scope with the directness that keeps large enterprise programs on track

Coordinate across internal teams

- Orchestrate the internal effort behind each implementation, pulling in engineering, data science, product, and customer success at the right moments and keeping them aligned on a single plan
- Escalate and unblock: identify what only another team can solve, make the ask precisely, and follow it to resolution
- Feed field learning back into the product organization — patterns across customers, recurring friction, gaps worth building
- Build reusable playbooks, templates, and documentation so the next implementation is faster than the last

Apply product management judgment

- Own the implementation roadmap for your accounts: sequence work by customer value and delivery risk, and make explicit calls about what ships now versus later
- Write clear requirements, specs, and acceptance criteria that engineering and data science can build against
- Prioritize against customer value delivery timelines and cooperate with the product team on milestones and deadlines
- Define what success looks like for each implementation in measurable terms, and track against it

You Have

- 8+ years in customer-facing technical delivery — implementation, engineering, professional services, technical program management, or product management with hands-on scope
- A demonstrated track record of shipping complex technical projects with external stakeholders, on a real deadline, with real consequences
- Strong communicator and coordinator: you can run a customer working session in the morning and drive internal alignment across three teams in the afternoon
- Product instincts — you naturally ask what problem this actually solves and what the smallest thing that solves it is
- Comfortable with ambiguity and partial information; you make progress before the picture is complete
- Bias toward automation and repeatability over heroics; you'd rather fix the process than run it manually again

Technical competencies we expect

- Working proficiency in Python or a comparable language: you can read a codebase, write and debug scripts, build integrations, and ship small features — you don't need to be a systems engineer
- Fluency with SQL and comfort exploring and validating data to answer your own questions
- Practical experience with AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as a core part of how you work — you use them to move faster on unfamiliar codebases, prototype integrations, and automate the repetitive parts of delivery, and you know how to review what they produce
- Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic AI systems — LLM-powered agents, tool and function calling, retrieval-augmented generation, or multi-agent orchestration
- Skill in prompt engineering and agent evaluation: you can design prompts and evals, diagnose why an agent fails, and iterate toward reliable production behavior
- Familiarity with agent frameworks and protocols (e.g., MCP, LangChain, or similar) and with wiring agents to external tools, APIs, and data sources
- Familiarity with APIs (REST, Swagger/OpenAPI), Git-based workflows, and cloud-hosted systems
- Enough understanding of data pipelines, data modeling, and ML systems to scope work, diagnose issues, and hold a credible conversation with the engineers who build them

## Nice to Have

- Experience with global trade, supply chain, customs, or trade compliance
- Background in enterprise software implementation at scale (multi-stakeholder, multi-quarter programs)
- Exposure to Spark, Databricks, or large-scale data processing
- Experience building internal tooling or automation that a team adopted
- Formal product management experience — roadmaps, specs, stakeholder prioritization

Technologies in Our Environment

Languages: Python, SQL, Spark

AI tooling: Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools, used daily

Agentic AI: LLM agents, tool and function calling, MCP, retrieval-augmented generation, and agent orchestration frameworks

Platform & infrastructure: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS, Azure

Datastores: Databricks, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redshift

This role is based in Amsterdam, with flexibility to travel onsite to our customer’s locations

## Our Values

Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers.

- Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word, meeting commitments, and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver, to speak openly, and to hold ourselves accountable.
- Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity, our work must withstand challenges, evolve with conditions, and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It’s how we respond when things don’t go to plan –– we adapt, we support each other, and we keep moving forward.
- Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus, creativity, and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable, we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.
- Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big, complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed, but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger, and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.

## About Altana 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Altana provides an AI-powered network for trusted trade, connecting businesses and governments to manage, automate, and secure the global supply chain.
- **Entity Type**: Private – Series C (raised $200M in July 2024, led by US Innovative Technology Fund)
- **Headquarters**: New York (Brooklyn, NY), USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Evan Smith (CEO), Raphael Tehranian (COO), Peter Swartz (Chief Science Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Supply chain intelligence, trade compliance, customs automation, government economic security
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises (e.g., Boston Scientific, Maersk), logistics providers, and government agencies (U.S. Customs and Border Protection, UK Department of Business and Trade)
- **Mission**: “Fix globalization” – build a more resilient, secure, and sustainable global economy while keeping trade flowing.

## Products & Services
- **Altana Atlas (Platform)**: AI-powered knowledge graph of the global supply chain, covering 400 million companies and trillions of dollars in B2B commerce. Used for supply chain visibility, risk detection, and trade compliance.
- **Product Passports**: Digital identifiers for products that trace the journey from raw materials to finished goods, enabling compliance with regulations such as UFLPA, EUDR, and forced labor screening.
- **Trade & Tariffs Solution**: Automates tariff classification, duty optimization, and scenario planning.
- **Supplier Management & Screening**: Monitors suppliers for sanctions, forced labor, and other risks.
- **Government Solutions**: Tools for threat detection (narcotics, export control violations), trade policy enforcement, and customs process acceleration (8× faster customs processes reported).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ≈ $45.6M (2025), Total Funding $323.5M across Series A–C, Grant, and Seed rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Google Ventures (Series A lead), Activate Capital Partners (Series B lead), US Innovative Technology Fund (Series C lead), Amadeus Capital Partners (Seed). Partners include U.S. Customs and Border Protection (2,500+ daily users), UK Department of Business, Boston Scientific, General Atomics, L.L.Bean, Maersk.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 223 (+16.4% YoY); 42 active job postings (+27.3% monthly growth in postings); used by governments in US, UK, Australia, Singapore; $300M+ average duty savings identified for importers.

## Competitive Advantages
- **World’s largest knowledge graph of global commerce** – network effects as more logistics providers and businesses contribute data.
- **Dual footprint in private and public sectors** – deep government relationships (customs, homeland security) provide a moat in regulated trade compliance.
- **AI-powered automation** – enables real-time risk screening, trade scenario planning, and product traceability that competitors struggle to match at scale.
- **Leadership with deep domain expertise** – co-founders have backgrounds in supply chain, clean tech, and national security; CTO Ian Cadieu spent 15 years at Bridgewater Associates.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand public sector deployments (counternarcotics, forced labor detection, export control) in allied nations.
- Drive adoption of Product Passports for regulatory compliance (e.g., EU Deforestation Regulation, UFLPA).
- Strengthen supply chain resilience offerings for enterprises, especially given tariff volatility and geopolitical risks.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact** – work directly on “fixing globalization,” national security, and sustainability at a company trusted by governments and Fortune 500 enterprises.
- **Growth trajectory** – rapid headcount growth, continuous funding, and expanding product surface area suggest strong career advancement opportunities.
- **Hybrid/office policy** – roles available in Brooklyn (HQ), San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston, and Amsterdam; multiple engineering, product, sales, and implementation positions posted.
- **Culture** – described as building a culture of inclusivity where employees can do their best work; leadership emphasizes collaboration across global trade, AI, and policy.
- **Engineering focus** – heavy investment in ML, NLP, and large-scale data systems (world-scale knowledge graph); open roles include Lead BI Engineer, Senior Staff Software Engineer, and Principal Product Manager for Supply Chain Intelligence.

## Sources
1. [altana.ai](https://altana.ai/about)
2. [altana.ai/leadership](https://altana.ai/leadership)
3. [boards.greenhouse.io/altanaai](https://boards.greenhouse.io/altanaai)
4. [linkedin.com/company/altana-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/altana-ai)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/altana-trade)

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