Junior HR AI Engineer

About the role

Do you want to use your data skills to optimize Employee Experience, while simultaneously helping organizations with their business performance? We are looking for people who are curious about human behavior, love to leverage the possibilities of AI and want to be part of the #1 AI Driven HR team in the BeNeLux.

As a Junior HR AI Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in innovating HR projects focusing on people themes such as Engagement, Vitality & Absenteeism, Turnover, Diversity & Inclusion, and Strategic Workforce Planning. With your AI engineering skills, you design solutions that enable our clients to take the right decisions on these topics. These decisions and subsequent actions will lead to a superior Employee Experience for employees at our clients, while also boosting the organizational performance.

Why Highberg?

At Highberg, everything revolves around people. Around colleagues who want to make a difference, take ownership, and work together based on trust and craftsmanship. We believe real change happens when strategy, execution, and humanity come together. That starts with our own team. This is why we create an environment where you can continue to grow, apply your expertise, and expand it further. An environment where you can make lasting impact.

Bringing strategy to life

At Highberg, you are not a remote advisor. You work closely with clients on challenges that truly matter, from strategy through to implementation. This allows you to make an immediate impact and see the results of your work in practice.

Collaborative, human, and professional

We work closely together, share knowledge, and strengthen one another to achieve the best possible outcomes. Our culture is open and built on trust, with room for both ambition and humanity. We listen, celebrate successes, and hold each other accountable, always with attention to people as well as to quality.

European outlook, locally rooted

With teams in the Netherlands and the DACH region, you work in an organization with a broad, European perspective. At the same time, the culture remains personal and close-knit. This gives you the opportunity to collaborate internationally at a high level, within a committed and engaged team.

Culture as a catalyst

Our culture is a key reason why colleagues enjoy working at Highberg. We place trust in our people, value initiative, and believe it is important that everyone can continue to develop. This enables you to get the best out of yourself, while together contributing to sustainable growth.

Your role as Junior HR AI Engineer

You will work for one or more renowned companies like NN Group, Jumbo Supermarkten, Friesland Campina and others. Together with your Highberg colleagues you will help our esteemed clients with the transformation from relying on traditional HR software and analytics to building AI solutions that transform hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, compliance and other People and Organizational workflows.

• As part of our AI driven HR team, you will partner closely with our People Analytics translators to understand the challenges or opportunities.
• You will then first combine, analyze and transform data sets to explore insights and possible solutions.
• Subsequently you will apply data science and AI techniques to generate insights and embed scalable solutions.
• You will work together with colleagues, stakeholders and AI to make the insights trustworthy, compelling and actionable.

Who are you?

• Team-oriented, communicative, and capable of working independently.
• You are ambitious and entrepreneurial.
• You love data science and are fascinated by human behavior.
• You have a good commercial instinct or enjoy developing one.

What are we asking?

• You have just graduated (master degree), or have up to 2 years working experience.
• Eligible to work in the EEA without the need for visa sponsorship.
• Knowledge of statistical / machine learning methods and are genuinely interested in leveraging AI possibilities for internal product development or client solutions.
• Proficient in Python, have gained some experience with Azure, Databricks and Power BI, Git (code version control) and SQL or are interested in working with this technology stack.
• Proficient in English. Dutch and German language skills are a plus

What are we offering?

• Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to and wide range of education and training and a personal development plan with matching investments.
• A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, you have the autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly with short lines of communication with colleagues.
• A pleasant working environment with a pleasant and easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team and not on the individual and numerous social activities such as get-togethers, sports activities and team meetings.

About the culture

Highberg is a European transformation consultancy. We support organizations in realizing their strategic ambitions by combining clear direction with execution.

We believe sustainable change happens when deep expertise and human dynamics are in balance. That is why we work closely with our clients, not only as advisors, but as partners in realization.

Our teams combine analytical depth with pragmatism and build solutions that not only work on paper, but above all in practice.