AI Engineer (Belgium)

Responsibilities

• You collaborate closely with business users to understand the problem being addressed and identify the shortest path from data to value.
• Your engineering skills enable you to create solutions that are robust, scalable, testable, maintainable, and easy to extend.
• Developing scalable deployment pipelines using modern cloud and MLOps / LLMOps practices.
• Creating cutting-edge GenAI applications and agentic AI systems.
• Rigorously evaluating AI solutions to ensure they provide real value rather than remaining impressive demonstrations.
• Working with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, cloud platforms, and GenAI or LLM integrations.
• Collaborating with engineers, data scientists, business users, and other stakeholders throughout the development process.
• Using AI coding tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude to work more effectively without compromising quality.` Sharing your knowledge and using the collective expertise of your Xebia colleagues to solve challenging problems.
• Depending on your experience, you may take the lead on technical decisions and coach other engineers as they develop their expertise.

Requirements

• An appreciation for clean, high-quality code.
• The ability and willingness to explain your work and share knowledge with your peers.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to learn quickly.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

You are more than a skilled engineer. You enjoy working where AI meets software and data engineering, and you understand that a successful AI solution involves more than building a model. You are eager to take ideas all the way into production and ensure that the resulting applications are reliable, maintainable, and valuable. You learn quickly, approach challenges with an entrepreneurial mindset, and enjoy sharing your work and knowledge with others.

This includes

A strong interest in the overlap between AI and software or data engineering. The ability to build scalable AI solutions that are robust and easy to maintain. Experience or a strong interest in taking ML models and AI applications into production.

An enthusiasm for coding, scripting, and templating. Familiarity with modern engineering technologies and practices such as CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Azure, and MLOps or LLMOps. An interest in cutting-edge GenAI, LLM integrations, and agentic AI systems. The communication skills required to collaborate with data scientists, engineers, business users, and other stakeholders.

An interest in working for different clients and regularly discovering new environments, challenges, and people. What’s in it for you! A cool office right in the heart of Antwerp is the home base for our brand-new Belgian team. Big, innovative clients and the newest technology, you work hands-on with the latest tools and platforms, not last decade’s stack.

Serious knowledge sharing

we actively help you become and stay an authority in your field. A genuine love of open source. If giving back to the community is your thing, you’ll feel right at home. A great client is already lined up, so you can hit the ground running from day one. Our core values are people first , quality without compromise , knowledge sharing, and customer intimacy . At Xebia Data, you will find like-minded colleagues who are at the forefront of their field and have the courage to go off the beaten track; they are the people who make organizations move. Sounds interesting? Let’s talk.