Founding AI Engineer
Helloprint
| Company | Helloprint |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Rotterdam |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | — |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (recruitee) |
Description
Before you read further HelloPri nt is on a mission to become the world's leading infrastructure for customizable printed products. From our offices in Rotterdam and Valencia, 120+ professionals from 20+ nationalities are building an AI-first company that scales output faster than headcount. We're at EUR 100M revenue and aiming to disrupt a trillion-dollar industry. Every hire we make needs to help get us there. Commercial instinct first, engineering second. You think about what something is worth before you think about how to build it. Full-time in Rotterdam . Five days a week, in the building where the transformation is happening. This is not negotiable. Always on mentality. This is not a 40-hour job; it’s a deliberate choice into something big that requires “what it takes” You have been building since before it was a career. Side projects, tools, systems nobody asked for. The obsession came first. You ship continuously. Not when it is ready. Not when it is perfect. When it moves a metric. With our new approach, we ship in a week what used to take a year, and we are looking for someone who raises that bar further. HelloPrint is not exploring, we are completely transforming into a fully AI-first organisation. The entire platform is being rebuilt from the ground up: new frontend, new pricing engine, new content engine, new product engine; Everything ready for an agentic future. No one on the team writes code manually for what these systems handle. Why this role exists: We can find excellent engineers, but what we’re looking for are people for whom building and commercial thinking are not two separate things. As a founding AI engineer, you will work directly alongside our founding team, including Hans (CEO) and Michael (CIO / Chief AI Officer). We have no hierarchy, no management layers and no decision trees. Everyone at HelloPrint builds, the founding team included. The expectation for this role is identical to every other builder: see the highest-impact problem, own it, ship it, measure it, move to the next one. This role is not for people who got into AI because it became important. It is for people who have been building since before anyone called it a career. The kind of person who coded as a teenager, shipped their first thing before anyone asked, and has never really stopped. Who finds it genuinely difficult to explain why they build: it is just what they do. Who would rather spend a Sunday solving a hard systems problem than almost anything else. If you have to think about whether that description fits you, it probably does not. This role will resonate with a specific kind of person. You will recognise yourself in one of these profiles: You are a technical co-founder or CTO 2 to 4 years into a startup. Your systems work. Your customers are real. But growth has plateaued and the funding environment is harder than expected. You are spending 30 to 40% of your time on things that are not building: investor relations, cap table management, pivot conversations. Your work reaches thousands of users. HelloPrint reaches 600,000. Or you are a senior AI builder at a fast-growth scale-up. Technically exceptional. Commercially disconnected. Here every build decision is also a business decision, immediately visible in revenue. Or you are building independently: open-source tools, AI SaaS, consulting. Commercially restless. HelloPrint offers better equity, better compensation, and 600,000 customers to build on immediately. What you will build: There is no pre-written roadmap. Defining what to build next is part of the job. The opportunity surface is large: 14 markets, 600,000 customers, a platform being rebuilt in parallel across four core engines. Where the highest-leverage problems live right now: Dynamic pricing and margin optimization across 14 markets. Agentic procurement: supplier selec
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