Artificial Intelligence Engineer

I'm currently working alongside a legal technology company based in Ghent, who are actively looking for an AI Engineer to join their team. You'll be designing and implementing AI-driven capabilities that automate legal workflows, streamline document analysis, and enable smarter, more efficient use of legal data.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI and machine learning models for production-grade legal SaaS applications.
• Build intelligent solutions using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate legal processes and enhance product capabilities.
• Develop robust data pipelines, feature engineering workflows, and AI services for processing large volumes of legal documents and structured data.
• Implement AI-powered features including intelligent legal search, document classification, contract analysis, information extraction, summarisation, predictive analytics, and conversational AI.
• Develop and optimise RAG pipelines and AI agents for legal research and knowledge retrieval.
• Integrate AI models with APIs, cloud platforms, databases, and modern software architectures.
• Ensure AI solutions meet high standards for accuracy, reliability, explainability, data privacy, and security.

Your Profile

• 2–8 years of experience in AI Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Data Science, or a similar role.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Experience building and deploying production-grade machine learning or AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, RAG, AI agents, document intelligence, or information retrieval.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts including ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, cloud data platforms, and data modelling.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Familiarity with frameworks and technologies such as LangChain, LangGraph, Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar is an advantage.
• Experience working with legal, regulatory, compliance, or other document-heavy domains is a strong plus.
• Fluent in English.

The Offer

• Hybrid working with an office based in Ghent.
• Opportunity to build next-generation AI solutions for the legal sector within an innovative SaaS environment.
• Work with modern technologies including LLMs, Azure OpenAI, RAG, AI agents, Databricks, cloud-native AI services, and MLOps.
• Competitive salary of up to €6,500 per month, depending on experience.
• Company car or mobility budget.
• 13+ ADV days.
• Continuous learning, technical training, and certification opportunities.
• Clear progression into Senior AI Engineer, AI Architect, or Technical Lead roles.
• A collaborative engineering culture where innovation, technical ownership, and impact are encouraged.

If this opportunity excites you and you'd like to help shape the future of AI-powered legal technology, apply today or send your CV and a short cover letter to [email protected].