AI Engineer
Faktion BV7 months ago
Antwerp, BelgiumSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end AI solutions spanning GenAI, classical ML, computer vision, and agentic systems.
- Translate customer problems into technical architectures and collaborate directly with clients to define requirements and objectives.
- Develop and deploy production-ready AI backends using Python, FastAPI, Docker, and cloud services.
- Build evaluation pipelines, including LLM-as-a-Judge agents, to monitor quality from development through production.
- Develop and maintain MLOps pipelines covering data preprocessing, feature extraction, model training, and monitoring.
- Research developments in generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, and deep learning and identify customer applications.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to align solutions with business and customer goals.
- Create technical specifications, presentations, and other documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field; a Master's or PhD is a strong plus.
- Solid hands-on experience building and deploying AI systems in GenAI, classical ML, computer vision, or related areas.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, LangChain, or LangFuse.
- Experience across the AI stack, including prompt engineering, RAG architecture, model training, evaluation pipelines, and cloud deployment.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and services such as Azure, containerisation with Docker, and API development with FastAPI.
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Native Dutch and English communication skills; French is a plus.
- Experience with GitHub projects, open-source contributions, or Kaggle competitions is a plus.
- Experience with synthetic data generation, object detection, image segmentation, MLOps tooling, agentic frameworks, multi-agent systems, relevant publications, or focus domains such as Data Quality, Retail, Manufacturing, or Finance is a plus.
Benefits
- Rewarding salary package with a company car and fuel card or mobility budget, hospitalisation insurance, group insurance, laptop, and smartphone.
- Flexible hybrid working policy allowing employees to choose where, how, and when they work.
- Innovation budget for educational, challenging, and open-source projects within the guild.
- Team-building activities and company gatherings.
- Culture supporting individual and team development and professional growth.
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About Faktion BV
Faktion is an Antwerp-based AI product studio and consultancy that designs and builds enterprise machine-learning applications and APIs for industrial operations and business functions. It offers AI advisory, solution delivery, and productization services, including generative AI, NLP, and document processing. Founded in 2016 and privately held, Faktion incubated Chatlayer (conversational AI) and Metamaze (intelligent document processing) and serves customers across manufacturing, logistics, and other sectors.