Senior AI Engineer & Agentic Developer

Location: Hybrid in Brussels, Belgium

Company

hirify.global is an independent digital consultancy with a global presence that builds digital teams and delivers digital solutions for a diverse range of companies.

What you will do

• Translate business needs into production AI solutions for claims management, fraud detection, underwriting, and other core processes.
• Help data scientists deploy and operate models reliably, securely, and at scale.
• Design data and inference pipelines, CI/CD processes, infrastructure-as-code, observability, monitoring, alerting, and drift detection.
• Lead agentic AI solutions from proof of value to production, integrating agents with internal systems through APIs, tool use, function calling, RAG, and orchestration frameworks.
• Define evaluation and testing frameworks with guardrails and red teaming, while embedding security, risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Provide technical direction through architecture advice, code reviews, coaching, documentation, standards, and collaboration with product stakeholders and external delivery partners.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in software or data engineering, including at least 3 years as an AI/ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer, or in a comparable role.
• Demonstrated experience bringing AI solutions into production and contributing to technical direction through architecture decisions, code reviews, and coaching.
• Strong Python skills and sound software engineering practices, including testing and clean code.
• Strong knowledge of MLOps/AIOps, CI/CD, Git, Docker, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience building data and inference pipelines and working with model registries, feature stores, experiment tracking, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with the Azure AI ecosystem, including Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, and AKS.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Fabric, JFrog/ACR, and Microsoft or vector databases.
• Practical knowledge of agentic AI, RAG, tool use/function calling, and orchestration frameworks.
• Strong communication skills and a pragmatic, results-oriented approach, including the ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Very good spoken and written Dutch and English, plus basic French.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Copilot Studio, DSPy, and semantic caching.
• Knowledge of security, governance, RBAC, secrets management, data privacy, and the EU AI Act.
• Experience embedding governance into AI solutions with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams.
• Experience advising product and domain stakeholders on architecture, risks, feasibility, and delivery sequencing.
• Experience challenging and improving designs from external delivery partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Friendly, open, multicultural, and diverse work environment with real responsibility and autonomy.
• Flexi-hours and hybrid home/office work arrangements in Brussels.
• Work-life balance, healthcare support, food allowances, and cost-effective, eco-friendly mobility plans.
• Real digital projects, personal and professional development, IT training, and certification opportunities.
• Exposure to various business industries and fast-evolving technical challenges.

Hiring process

• One phone call followed by one onsite interview.
• Expected response time is two open days; an offer is expected four days after the interview.