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At Damen Shipyards Group, we are accelerating the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across our global organization. From shipbuilding and engineering to procurement, finance, services, and operations, AI is becoming a key enabler of how we work, innovate, and create value.
To support this ambition, we are establishing the AI Value Lab, a dedicated team focused on identifying, developing, validating, and scaling AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable business impact. We are investing in people, platforms, and capabilities that help transform promising AI technologies into practical business outcomes.
We are not looking for someone who simply configures tools.
We are looking for someone who loves understanding how AI works beneath the surface, enjoys experimenting with new models and technologies, and gets excited about turning ideas into working solutions. You may come from software development, automation, AI engineering, digital transformation, product development, data science, or a similar environment where curiosity, innovation, and hands-on problem solving are part of your daily work.
This is an opportunity to help shape the future of AI within a global maritime leader and contribute directly to Damen's ambition of becoming a more Human-Led and Data-Powered organization.
As an AI Solution Developer, you will serve as the technical explorer and hands-on builder within the AI Value Lab. You will rapidly translate business opportunities into proof-of-concepts, prototypes, AI agents, automations, and scalable solutions that improve how people work and make decisions.
You will work closely with business stakeholders, Data & AI specialists, AI Ambassadors, developers, and technology teams to identify opportunities, test emerging technologies, and transform successful experiments into reliable business solutions.
The role requires a balance between technical curiosity, practical problem solving, experimentation, business understanding, and solution delivery.
Why Join Damen?
At Damen, you will help shape how AI is adopted across a global organization operating in shipbuilding, engineering, services, and maritime innovation. You will have the opportunity to work on real business challenges while exploring some of the most exciting developments in artificial intelligence.
As part of the AI Value Lab, you will collaborate with AI specialists, business leaders, and technology experts to create solutions that improve productivity, decision-making, and operational excellence across Damen. You will be empowered to experiment, innovate, and build solutions that generate tangible business impact.
If you're the type of person who tests new AI models for fun, builds side projects to learn how things work, automates repetitive tasks because you can, and believes the best way to understand AI is to build with it, this role was created for you.
Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible.
Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world.
In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation.
We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity.
We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.
