Position

The AI Engineer builds, tests, and manages the technical components that make AI usable within SFPD. The position develops agents, retrieval solutions, model integrations, pipelines, observability, and platform building blocks, and supports teams in applying them to concrete use cases.

Responsibilities include:

• 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.
• Providing technical support for sandboxes and proofs of concept.
• Making AI production-ready in accordance with architecture, security, and governance requirements.
• Supporting data and platform teams with privacy-compliant test data, data flows, and connections to existing systems.
• Maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and examples to enable other teams to reuse solutions.
• Analyzing operational issues and implementing improvements based on logs, evaluations, feedback, and usage data.

Technical competencies

• Experience as a software engineer, platform engineer, ML engineer, or similar hands-on role (5-8 years).
• Strong programming skills, preferably in 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 an asset.

Generic competencies

• Innovation: You follow the latest trends and experiment with innovative AI technologies.
• Problem-solving ability: You analyze complex issues and translate them into pragmatic solutions.
• Collaboration: You work smoothly with colleagues from various disciplines (IT, business, security, architecture).
• Communication: You can clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advising: You excel at structuring, visualizing, advising, and guiding multidisciplinary decision-making.
• Result orientation: You monitor deadlines and ensure high-quality deliverables.

Selection

Attach to your application a document of up to 2 pages explaining your vision on how the Federal Pension Service can leverage artificial intelligence to create concrete added value for its pension services and internal operations. Emphasize the technological implementation and the contribution you, as an AI Engineer, can make to the design, development, and implementation of usable AI solutions.

The place of employment is Brussels. We offer the possibility to work part-time remotely.