AI Engineer – Brussels

Project overview

Introduction

IT-Planet is the HR specialist for flexible and temporary staffing in IT. We handle IT projects for various top 100 clients throughout Flanders and Brussels in the following IT domains: Application Development, Infrastructure Services & Software Testing. With 15 years of experience, we can perfectly meet your individual needs. With us, you can and may grow and learn, in short, flourish in your job. Sounds good? We already have 180 great colleagues on projects. To further strengthen our team, we are currently looking for an AI Engineer (m/f/x) to work with our client in Brussels.

Function

The AI Engineer builds, tests, and manages the technical components that make AI usable within the client's organization. The role involves realizing agents, retrieval solutions, model integrations, pipelines, observability, and platform building blocks, and supporting teams in their application to concrete use cases.

• This position can be filled with either a permanent contract (employee status) or a freelance contract
• Duration: Long term
• Region: Brussels
• Full time

Responsibilities

• Implementing AI services, agents, retrieval solutions, and API integrations
• Building reusable components for model access, prompting, context management, evaluation, logging, cost tracking, and error handling
• Setting up automated test and evaluation sets for quality, reliability, security, performance, and cost
• Applying CI/CD and MLOps/LLMOps practices for version control, deployment, configuration, monitoring, and rollback
• Technically supporting sandboxes and proofs of concept
• Making AI production-ready according to architecture, security, and governance requirements
• Supporting data and platform teams with privacy-safe test data, data streams, and connections to existing systems
• Maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and examples so that other teams can reuse solutions
• Analyzing operational issues and implementing improvements based on logs, evaluations, feedback, and usage data

Requirements

Offer

What comes with it

You will be compensated according to your tasks, knowledge, and competencies. We carefully develop a motivating salary package, including an attractive fringe benefits package with group and hospitalization insurance, meal vouchers, eco-cheques, an annual budget for purchasing personal IT equipment, etc. We also offer you a company car with a charging or fuel card.

What really matters

You and your personal wishes and needs are central to us. Through personal follow-up and contacts, we strive together for your desired career. We offer you the growth opportunities and challenges you aspire to, and guide you with a professional training and development policy. We consider work-life balance important; in this context, we also offer flexibility. Additionally, we organize many great events annually to which you are always invited! We also attend some festivals as sponsors each year.

All of the above, and much more, ensures that we win the Great Place to Work award year after year!

Freelance? Don't hesitate to contact us for a tailor-made proposal. And yes, even as a freelancer, you can enjoy training and events through IT-Planet!

Information

Interested? Send your CV and possibly your cover letter to [contact removed] attn: Hannah.

• Experience as a software engineer, platform engineer, ML engineer, or comparable hands-on role
• Strong programming skills, preferably Python and Java
• Experience with APIs, authentication, containers, and automated testing
• Practical knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, retrieval, agents, model APIs, and evaluation methods
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, infrastructure as code, observability, and cloud or container platforms
• Attention to security, privacy, documentation, and operational reliability
• Knowledge of the public sector, G-Cloud, or OISZ context is a plus
• Active knowledge of both Dutch and French

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: Lange termijn
• Location: Brussel, BE
• Languages: Dutch