AI Engineer & Agentic Developer at Pauwels Consulting

Pauwels Consulting is hiring an AI Engineer & Agentic Developer to take technical lead on agentic solutions built on Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.

Key Responsibilities

Take technical lead on agentic solutions built on Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio

Coach data scientists on packaging and reproducibility

Design data and inference pipelines

Implement MLOps practices (containers, model registry, CI/CD)

Establish observability systems

Apply compliance frameworks aligned with the EU AI Act

Build integrations with internal systems via function calling, RAG, and orchestration

Implement orchestration patterns — planning, retries, fallbacks

Maintain selective autonomy and human-in-the-loop design principles

Create evaluation frameworks including red teaming and versioning

Manage technical backlogs

Required Skills & Tech Stack

3-5+ years AI/ML/MLOps production experience

Strong Python proficiency

Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks, function calling, and RAG

Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform

Azure ML, Azure OpenAI/AI Foundry, Azure AI Search

Security/governance (RBAC, secrets, network segmentation)

Dutch fluency + strong English

Master's in CS/AI/Engineering or equivalent

Nice-to-Have: Azure certifications (AZ-900, AZ-204, DP-700, PL-300, ISTQB CTFL); insurance/financial services domain knowledge.

Start Date: ASAP | Duration: 12 months (extension possible)

Location: Hybrid (minimum 2 days/week on-site in Antwerp)

Employment: Full-time (Freelance or Permanent option)

Posted: March 24, 2026.