AI Engineer
In The Pocket3 months ago
Belgium (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI-powered features on top of foundation models, including agents, multimodal retrieval systems, assistants, document analysis, and advanced search capabilities.
- Guide concepts from early ideas through prototypes and production deployment.
- Build evaluations into AI systems to demonstrate reliability.
- Design human-in-the-loop and unsupervised workflow decisions.
- Design for security and data protection, especially in regulated environments.
- Work directly with clients to understand needs and turn ambiguous goals into concrete solutions.
- Share experiments, demos, and learnings with the AI practice.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related field, or a proven track record as an AI engineer.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, creating, and operating LLM-based solutions.
- Knowledge of large language model capabilities, limitations, risks, prompt engineering, context engineering, and harness engineering.
- Understanding of agents and tools, with experience using MCP, agentskills, and A2A.
- Experience with retrieval, reranking, embeddings, chunking strategies, and vector databases.
- Knowledge of software engineering practices including automated testing and infrastructure as code.
- Knowledge of secure software development, OWASP, prompt injection, retrieval-related data leakage, and overly broad permissions.
- Experience with AI-native tooling such as coding agents, sandboxed execution, skills, and subagents.
- Fluent English and proficiency in Dutch or French.
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs to nontechnical stakeholders and colleagues.
Benefits
- Permanent contract with responsibility and the opportunity to make an impact from day one.
- Competitive salary based on experience and value brought.
- 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.
- Work involves close collaboration with clients and multidisciplinary teams across Europe.
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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.