AI Engineer & Agentic Developer

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.