Lead AI Engineer
In The Pocket13 days ago
Belgium (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own the AI Engineering practice, including its vision, standards, best practices, tooling, reference architectures, goals, and priorities.
- Lead knowledge sharing, expertise building, role development, learning paths, and cross-practice collaboration.
- Design and build AI-powered features using foundation models, including agents, multimodal retrieval systems, assistants, document analysis, and advanced search.
- Guide AI solutions from experiments and prototypes through production deployment and integration with applications, workflows, and enterprise systems.
- Design agentic workflows, tool integrations, and context management systems.
- Define evaluation criteria, measure performance, investigate failures, and continuously improve solution quality.
- Improve production readiness across reliability, observability, latency, scalability, security, and cost.
- Work with clients and end-users on evaluation criteria, user testing, feedback, and product improvements.
Requirements
- Senior AI engineering experience with a proven track record in the field.
- Broad knowledge of different model types, standards, protocols, architectural patterns, and common risks.
- Experience building and shipping agentic solutions and familiarity with common LLM models.
- Strong prompt, context, and harness engineering skills.
- Strong software engineering principles and best practices.
- Proven engineering leadership or the ability to articulate and execute a clear technical vision.
- Strong communication skills and fluency in English.
- Proficiency in Dutch or French is a strong asset.
Benefits
- Permanent contract with responsibility and meaningful impact from day one.
- Competitive salary reflecting experience and value.
- Hospitalisation and group insurance, meal vouchers, phone subscription, and other benefits.
- Mobility budget.
- Team events throughout the year.
- Dedicated learning and development budget after six months.
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About In The Pocket
In The Pocket is a digital product studio and IT services firm that designs and builds mobile and web applications, cloud platforms, and AI/ML solutions for enterprise and public‑sector clients. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, it is privately held and provides end‑to‑end strategy, design, and engineering. Notable customers include KBC, Colruyt, ENGIE, BMW, Barco, and Payconiq by Bancontact.