AI Engineer

Startup Atlas; Oost-Vlaanderen; À distance; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Toqua is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer in Ghent to build LLM-based agentic features that optimize shipping fuel and emissions. You’ll design, implement, and ship end-to-end components, collaborating with researchers and product teams to turn blue-sky ideas into real product features.

You’ll work with Python/FastAPI, React and Azure, integrating agents into customer workflows, setting up monitoring and guardrails, and continuously improving model usefulness and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents; prompting, RAG, tool calling.
• Strong software engineering skills; Python, Git; cloud web services.
• Nice to have: OpenAI APIs, retrieval/evaluation tooling; maritime affinity.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and ship agentic features end-to-end across Python/FastAPI, React and Azure.
• Integrate the agent into real customer workflows and improve accuracy.
• Set up evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails for the agent and production models.
• Shape the product by solving real customer pain points with agentic or related solutions.

Connaissances

LLM experience

Agentic design

Prompting & RAG

Cloud/web services

Outils

Python

Git

React

Azure

FastAPI

OpenAI APIs

Description du poste

Toqua turns raw vessel data into reliable performance numbers to increase earnings, reduce costs, and lower emissions in the maritime industry using AI and machine learning.

Hands-on AI Engineer role at Toqua building LLM-based agentic features to optimize shipping fuel and emissions. Join a mission-driven startup team in Ghent to create impactful machine learning solutions for sustainability.

Job Description

Gent

Full-time

Why this role matters

At Toqua, we’re building machine learning technology that helps shipping companies cut fuel consumption and emissions at scale, solving one of the world’s most urgent climate challenges. Our platform is used directly by customers, and can also be easily embedded in partner products. By 2029, we aim to power 10,000 vessels - the equivalent of removing every single car from the roads in Belgium. What you build will directly move that needle.

You’ll be joining a young, smart, and ambitious team that’s willing to go the extra mile. If you want impact, autonomy, and deep ownership, we'd love to talk!

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a hands-on AI Engineer who lives and breathes LLMs and agents. Someone who can turn the latest AI capabilities into real product features that feel like “magic” to users. You don’t need to know our exact stack on day one, but you should be comfortable picking up new tools quickly and turning ideas into working systems.

• Design, build, and ship agentic features end-to-end across Python/FastAPI, React and Azure.
• Integrate the agent into real customer workflows and continuously improve its accuracy and usefulness.
• Setup evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails for the agent, and rapidly bring relevant new LLM models, tools, and frameworks into production.
• Shape the product. Collaborate with the team to understand real customer pain points and help design solutions, agentic or not, that make sense**.

Your experience

• Have hands-on LLM experience. You've built features with LLMs and agents before. You understand prompting, RAG, tool calling and agentic patterns. You can reason about the involved trade-offs.
• You are a solid software engineer. You’re proficient with Python and git. You have some knowledge of building and operating web services in the cloud. You write clean, maintainable and testable code.
• Nice to have: Experience with OpenAI's APIs, retrieval and evaluation tooling. Maritime affinity is very welcome.

What makes you a great fit

• You take initiative and ownership. You move projects forward without constant direction and care deeply about the quality and impact of what you build.
• You’re driven by impact. Our mission is to cut emissions at scale. You want to apply your skills to tackle one of the world’s biggest climate challenges.
• You learn quickly. You enjoy picking up new technologies, adapting to new contexts, and solving unfamiliar problems.
• You think critically. You question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and propose better ways of doing things.
• You’re a team player. You’re humble, collaborative, and put the team first.
• You’re curious about the maritime world. Whether it’s ships, oceans, or global trade, you like the idea of working in a domain with massive sustainability impact.
• You’re great at ping-pong. We’re a startup, of course there’s ping-pong ;)

How we work

• Direct communication. You’ll talk directly with the people you work with – no layers in between.
• Flat structure. Your ideas matter as much as anyone else’s.
• Cross-functional collaboration. You’ll work closely with researchers, business minds, and end users in a fast-moving team.
• Mission-driven. Cutting emissions is what guides our priorities.
• Fast iterations. We move quickly, test ideas often, and learn from real feedback to keep improving.