AI Engineer & Agentic Developer

You'll be joining a digital transformation team inside a well-established financial services organisation, one that's serious about building production-grade AI, not just running experiments. Your work sits at the intersection of MLOps engineering and agentic AI development: you'll be shipping systems that are scalable, secure, and compliant from day one, not retrofitted later.

• Coach data scientists to move models from experiment to production — packaging, reproducibility, CI/CD
• Design and build data and inference pipelines
• Implement MLOps best practices: containers, model registry, experiment tracking, rollback strategies
• Set up observability layers — logs, metrics, traces, drift detection, SLOs
• Apply compliance-by-design principles aligned with security, risk frameworks, and the EU AI Act
• Take technical lead on agentic solutions built on Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio
• Build integrations with internal systems via function calling, RAG, and orchestration
• Set up evaluation frameworks: test suites, red teaming, versioning
• Implement orchestration patterns — planning, retries, fallbacks
• Maintain selective autonomy and human-in-the-loop design principles
• Own and manage the technical backlog within an agile team
• Write technical documentation and runbooks
• Challenge designs, collaborate with partners, and ensure integration fits target architecture

• 3–5+ years as an AI / ML / MLOps engineer, with clear production-grade delivery
• Strong Python skills — this is a hands-on role
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks, function calling, and RAG
• Deep knowledge of AIOps/MLOps tooling: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform (IaC)
• Working knowledge of Azure ML, Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry, Azure AI Search
• Solid understanding of security and governance: RBAC, secrets management, network segmentation, privacy
• Master's degree in CS, AI, Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• You are fluent in Dutch, and have a very good level of English

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Certifications: AZ-900, AZ-204, DP-700, PL-300, ISTQB CTFL (none strictly required)
• Insurance or financial services domain knowledge

• Location: Hybrid — minimum 2 days/week on-site in Antwerp
• Contract: Freelance or Permanent
• Duration: 12 months, extension possible
• Start: ASAP
• Own device required