AI/Automation Engineer

Join a dynamic, talented, and engaged team in a positive work environment to create a meaningful impact 

Description 

GRESB, the global sustainability benchmark for real assets, is recruiting an AI/Automation Engineer (LLM Focus) to join the Amsterdam-based team. The position offers a unique opportunity to work in a mission-driven organization that is shaping the markets of the future and paving the way for a more sustainable real asset industry. This is an exciting role for an entrepreneurial spirit with quite a lot of greenfield work and opportunities to shape new processes and tools. 

The Member Success team's mission is to ensure that GRESB members achieve their desired outcomes and remain satisfied with GRESB's products and services, ensuring high quality data and service level. Your main responsibility is to help the team optimize various processes with the use of LLMs, so that our members are set up for success and benefit from an improved experience. You will actively collaborate with other teams in GRESB, including Members Success, Quality Assurance, Data Quality, Product and Tech. 

You will be reporting to the Chief Customer Success Officer. 

Main responsibilities 

As an AI/Automation Engineer, you will be involved across several projects of high impact within the department, with an emphasis on improving the customer journey and increasing the team’s efficiency, including: 

• Supporting the data quality team to retrieve, process, and analyze data by building and maintaining data pipelines, utilizing tools such as SQL, R, and Python in tandem with AI tools such as Large Language Models (LLMs). 
• Improving the technical proficiency of the team by identifying manual processes and suggesting opportunities for automation. 
• Making it easier for internal and external users to analyze large and varying forms of text files and quantitative data from clients by leveraging LLMs. 
• Hosting the relevant services above in our AWS suite and ensuring that these communicate with our different tools and environments 
• Collaborating and engaging with third-party vendors, managing API endpoints to communicate with the GRESB platform

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience working on data solution engineering 
• Experience in dealing with cloud-based services such as AWS, Azure, or Google 
• Proficient in data handling and manipulation using different frameworks 
• Ability to develop small, production ready applications and software solutions, preferably in python 
• Ability to deploy those applications via CI/CD pipelines (no manual deploys) 
• Expertise in working with AI/LLMs and statistical models 
• Keen interest in automating and optimizing manual processes 
• Strong communication skills
• Enthusiastic, energetic, and motivated to innovate and learn 
• Team player who thrives in an international environment 
• Fluency in English is mandatory - other European language skills are a plus 
• Must possess the right to work in the EU (non-EU applicants must already have a Dutch working permit) 
• Working from the office at least 3 days a week 

Benefits

• Involvement in a fast-growing international organization that is globally recognized as the leading sustainability benchmark for real assets
• Scale-up mentality, fast and flat processes, straight internal communication, low hierarchies, and freedom to operate
• Opportunity to work with highly talented teams in a supportive and flexible environment. 
• Familiar atmosphere within a dynamic and positive team at modern and well-located office facilities 
• Attractive compensation that matches your experience 
• 25 days of paid holidays + 2 paid volunteering days off 
• Annual budget of EUR 2,500 for Personal Development 
• Home office budget of EUR 350 
• Company pension plan 
• Free public transport to and from work inside the Netherlands 
• Company provided laptop 
• Free and healthy lunch at the office 

GRESB is an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace, one at which all workers — regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, identity, education, or disability — feel valued and respected. We are committed to a non-discriminatory approach to hiring and provide equal opportunity for employment and advancement in all of our teams and programs. We respect and value diverse life experiences and heritages and work to ensure that all voices are valued and heard. 

ABOUT GRESB 

GRESB is a mission-driven organization and strategic partner for sustainable and high-performing investments across real assets and climate-critical industries. We help investment professionals mitigate risk and build portfolios that are resilient, efficient, and financially attractive for long-term success. 

Our vision: An investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world. 

Our mission: To provide financial markets with actionable sustainability insights, data and benchmarks. More than 150 global institutional and financial investors with USD 53 trillion in assets under management rely on GRESB to help guide their investment decisions, mitigating risk, improving portfolio quality, and driving long-term financial success. The GRESB team is an energetic group of more than 100 individuals from diverse backgrounds with experience spanning sustainability, data science, software development, real estate, infrastructure, and the capital markets. Most of us work out of our head office in Amsterdam or one of our satellite offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Boston, Singapore, or Sydney. We’re passionate about tackling the sustainability challenge by providing the insights that will power the markets of the future and enable investors to allocate the world’s capital in a more responsible way.