Confidential company, Engineering
AI Engineer at venture-backed AI professional services startup
- Location
- Ghent, Belgium
- Compensation
- Not Disclosed
Want to build AI that doesn't just assist experts, but actually does the work? This venture-backed startup is disrupting high-stakes services by delivering AI-powered results for complex projects. As an AI Engineer, you'll partner directly with domain specialists to build production LLM systems and workflows that process massive data sets.
Forget slow development cycles—here, your code is put to the test on live projects within days. If you’re a Python pro who wants to own the delivery loop and reinvent a document-heavy industry, this role offers meaningful equity and a front-row seat to the AI-native future.
What's the next step?
Confidential company are hiring from Jack's network. Talk to Jack for free and get a direct introduction to the team, if a good fit.
Role overview
You will build and operate the AI systems powering high-stakes deliverables in a venture-backed technology startup. Working in a tight loop with domain experts, you’ll engineer LLM workflows and evaluation harnesses to automate sophisticated data analysis. Your work directly impacts real-world projects, moving beyond tool-building to deliver finished, high-quality results.
About the company
Venture-backed AI professional services startup
What you will do
- Build and optimize production AI systems, including LLM-powered extraction, analysis pipelines, and complex agentic workflows.
- Collaborate directly with domain specialists to ensure AI outputs meet rigorous quality standards for accuracy and reliability on every deliverable.
- Develop and maintain sophisticated evaluation harnesses and tracing tools to measure performance and drive continuous system improvements.
Who this is a fit for
- Strong Python proficiency with proven experience building and deploying production-grade LLM systems and retrieval architectures in a commercial setting.
- Engineering judgment to balance rapid shipping on live projects with the need for building reusable, scalable codebase improvements.
- Excellent communication skills to translate technical trade-offs to non-technical experts and domain nuances into robust engineering requirements.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a well-funded startup disrupting traditional service delivery models by providing end-to-end professional outputs powered by proprietary AI systems.
- Experience an exceptionally short feedback loop where your code processes live, high-stakes data alongside domain experts every single week.
- Receive meaningful early-stage equity and participate in reinventing a massive, document-heavy industry from the ground up within an AI-native framework.
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What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
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If your profile’s a match and Confidential company wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.