AI Engineering Lead — Hands-On & Team Growth

dataroots, a Talan company; Vlaams-Brabant; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobility budget or company car

Hospitalization and group insurance

High-end laptop

Smartphone with subscription

Meal vouchers

Training budget

Team-building events

Job summary

Dataroots, a Talan company, is seeking an AI Engineering leader to guide a team of AI engineers and shape our AI practice. Join us to lead from experience on client projects and grow the practice while balancing delivery and people development.

You will contribute to business development, onboard new team members, and ensure high-quality, production-ready AI solutions across client engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering AI solutions in consulting or client-facing environments.
• Strong software engineering skills with Python and SQL.
• Experience building production‑ready machine learning and Generative AI systems.
• Solid understanding of modern GenAI, retrieval systems, Agentic AI, MLOps and LLMOps.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong communication skills and a pragmatic, business‑oriented mindset.
• Fluency in English and Dutch.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support a team of AI engineers towards shared goals and objectives.
• Coach and mentor colleagues, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• Monitor and improve key team indicators such as wellbeing, customer satisfaction and team performance.
• Build strong client relationships and identify opportunities to create additional value.
• Contribute to business development efforts, proposals and value propositions.

Skills

AI engineering leadership

Python & SQL

GenAI / LLMOps

Cloud platforms

Client-facing communication

English & Dutch Fluency

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

MLOps tooling

Job description

Dataroots, a Talan company, is seeking an AI Engineering leader to guide a team of AI engineers and shape our AI practice. Join us to lead from experience on client projects and grow the practice while balancing delivery and people development.

You will contribute to business development, onboard new team members, and ensure high-quality, production-ready AI solutions across client engagements.