Senior AI Engineer

TITLE: SENIOR AI ENGINEER

DURATION: ASAP - 12 MONTHS

LOCATION: ANTWERP, BELGIUM

LANGUAGES: DUTCH, ENGLISH

WORK REGIME: FULLTIME | HYBRID (2-3 DAYS ONSITE PER WEEK)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description - Roles and Responsibilities

Profile

• As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be part of the AI team and report to the Team Lead. You will work from Antwerp in an agile team on bringing AI solutions into production in a reliable, scalable and safe way.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will combine deep expertise in AIOps/MLOps with technical leadership around agentic automation. You work independently and are the technical point of contact for the team.
• You are the owner of the entire process: together with the business, you translate a concrete problem into a solution that runs and is used in production.
• You will guide data scientists in rolling out models to production environments and ensure that AI solutions meet high quality, security and governance requirements.
• You will design and build reliable data and inference pipelines, implement CI/CD processes and set up observability through logging, monitoring, alerts and drift detection. In addition, you will work together with Security, Risk & Compliance to develop AI solutions compliant by design.
• You will take a leading role in the development of agentic solutions. From proof of value to production, you will design and build high-performance solutions that securely integrate with internal systems via APIs, tool use/function calling, RAG and robust orchestration patterns.
• You will define evaluation and testing frameworks (including red teaming and guardrails), perform code reviews and help embed best practices within the team. You work AI-first yourself and help build reusable components and standards.
• In addition to the technical realization, you will advise Product Owner and Domain Product Manager on architecture choices, risks, feasibility and sequencing. You challenge designs from external delivery partners and avoid separate PoCs and shadow AI.
• You contribute to AI governance, documentation, standards and the further development of AI literacy within the organization. In doing so, you will work closely with architecture, IT, data scientists and external delivery partners.

Required experience

• At least 6 years of experience in software or data engineering, of which at least 3 years as an AI/ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer or in a similar position, with AI solutions that you put into production yourself
• Experience as a technical lead contributing to architecture choices, performing code reviews and coaching colleagues
• Sterke kennis van AIOps/MLOps, CI/CD, AzureDevOps, Git, Docker, containers, Kubernetes en Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience with model registries, feature stores, experiment tracking, monitoring, alerting and data and inference pipelines
• Strong Python knowledge and solid software engineering practices (testing, clean code)
• Experience with Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Fabric, Jfrog/ACR, and AKS
• Kennis van agentic frameworks, RAG, Copilot Studio, dspy, tool use/function calling en semantic caching
• Knowledge of security, governance, RBAC, secrets management, data privacy and the EU AI Act is a strong asset
• Kennis van Microsoft Fabric & DB / Vector DB.
• Strong communicator, coaching attitude, pragmatic and result-oriented; You dare to make decisions and clearly explain technical choices to non-technical colleagues

Expectations

• Take AI from experiment to production and make a difference in our core processes.
• Take the lead in the development of secure, high-performance and scalable agentic solutions.
• Collaborate with data scientists, architects, and IT experts on the next generation of AI solutions.