Generative AI Lead Engineer
Faktion BVover 1 year ago
Antwerp, BelgiumStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, enhancement, optimization, and scaling of NLP and generative or agentic AI models and applications.
- Drive technical initiatives across multi-agent AI, RAG, voice AI assistants, language processing, and customer-focused generative AI solutions.
- Develop proprietary integrations with third-party solutions and collaborate with AI, full-stack, and product teams on project requirements and business alignment.
- Oversee MLOps pipelines covering data preprocessing, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build and manage containerized AI backend services using Docker and FastAPI.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices, processes, and documentation for the NLP and generative AI team.
- Mentor engineers and junior team members while providing technical leadership and supporting their professional development.
- Conduct research into emerging NLP and generative AI techniques and represent the company at industry conferences and events.
Requirements
- Native-level written and verbal Dutch and English are required; French is a plus.
- A Master's or PhD in Computer Science, NLP, AI, ML, or a related field is required.
- At least 5 years of experience implementing NLP and generative AI models, including deep expertise in transformer architectures, language models, and embeddings.
- Demonstrated leadership of technical AI/ML projects, including mentoring and project management.
- Expert proficiency in Python and extensive experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face Transformers.
- Strong NLP knowledge covering text classification, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and language generation.
- Experience with large language model fine-tuning, prompt engineering, evaluation methodologies, scalable production deployments, and MLOps.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Experience with Azure and scalable cloud-based AI solutions.
- TypeScript experience is a plus.
- Open-source contributions, advanced NLP GitHub repositories, relevant Kaggle competitions, publications, multilingual NLP, cross-lingual transfer learning, or experience in data quality, retail, manufacturing, or finance are advantageous.
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.
- Company culture focused on individual and team development, professional growth, and leadership opportunities.
- Regular team-building activities and team gatherings.
- Opportunities to represent Faktion at industry conferences and events.
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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.