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[IWantOut] 24M Backend/AI Engineer Italy -> Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland

Hi everyone,

I have a bachelor's in Computer Science and I'm finishing my Master's in AI right now. I don't have full-time work experience yet — what I do have is freelance backend work (a few projects: a healthtech platform, a ticketing platform, a mobile app, all shipped and live) plus personal/academic AI projects where I went deep on things like RAG pipelines and model serving, not just coursework.

I've been thinking about leaving Italy for a while. It's not really about chasing the highest number — it's more that I don't feel this kind of work is valued here yet, especially for someone still early in their career. Backend/AI work tends to get treated like generic IT rather than a specialized skill, and pay and growth reflect that. I want to end up somewhere that actually invests in engineers doing this kind of work, and I'm not limiting myself to the EU if the right opportunity is elsewhere.

Right now Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland are the ones I keep coming back to — mostly the tech/finance density and what looks like real demand for backend+AI profiles — but I'm genuinely open to hearing about places I haven't considered.

What I'd love advice on:

- Realistically, is a freelance/project background + a fresh Master's enough to get hired abroad, or should I expect to need a full-time job in Italy first?

- What does entry-level to early-career hiring actually look like for backend/AI roles in these markets?

- Visa/permit side — I'm an EU citizen so intra-EU is simpler, but I don't know much about non-EU options in practice.

- Is English genuinely enough day-to-day, or would I be at a real disadvantage without Dutch/French/German?

- Any countries you think I'm sleeping on?

Appreciate any first-hand experience, thanks for reading.

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u/simonenegro_ai — 2 days ago
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I built a fully-local multi-agent pipeline that turns messy Markdown into a 3D knowledge galaxy (Ollama + ChromaDB + Agno)

Been hacking on Cosmind — a local-first "second brain" that treats note-processing as a multi-agent problem instead of a single RAG call.

The pipeline (built on Agno):

  • Splitter — breaks raw notes into atomic Zettelkasten notes 
  • Researcher — enriches them with web sources 
  • Vision — reads images/screenshots
  • Lecturer — writes literature-note summaries

 

Model-agnostic: runs fully local on Ollama (Qwen2.5, Llama3, Llama3.2-Vision, whatever you pull), or point it at a paid API (OpenAI, etc.) if you want more horsepower.

Local is the default — data never leaves the machine unless you opt in. ChromaDB as the vector store.

Stuff I think this sub will care about:

  • RAG chat answers only from your vault; if the answer isn't there it offers a web search instead of hallucinating 
  • Auto-generated knowledge graph via cosine similarity (derives from / leads to / similar links) 
  • 3D visualizer: PCA for the galaxy map, t-SNE for concept "islands" 
  • FastAPI backend + React/TS frontend, fully Dockerized

 

Questions for you all:

  1. Multi-agent splitting vs. one big chunking prompt — worth the latency/token cost in your experience? 
  2. Anyone found a local embedding model that beats nomic-embed for note-similarity?
u/simonenegro_ai — 2 months ago