AI Software Engineer — Hybrid, Ownership & Impact

Qargo TMS; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working setup

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Qargo is seeking an AI Software Engineer to join our Ghent team. You will work across research, rapid prototyping and productionisation of AI features, applying state-of-the-art models (LLMs, vision, NLP) into our cloud-based Transport Management Platform.

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to solve real logistics challenges, scale and monitor AI components, and help shape Qargo's long-term AI strategy.

Qualifications

• Min. 2 years of experience in software engineering, applied AI, or similar technical roles.
• Strong programming skills (Python and/or modern backend languages).
• Experience with AI/ML tools and frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain/LangGraph, vector databases, and inference tooling.
• Proven experience deploying and operating AI/ML systems in a production environment.
• Ability to experiment quickly, iterate fast, and validate assumptions.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work autonomously in a fast‑paced environment.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate with engineers, product managers, and domain experts.
• Experience with document processing, NLP, or conversational AI is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and prototype with new AI models and techniques to solve document, workflow, and conversational tasks.
• Bring AI prototypes to production, ensuring quality, scalability, and observability.
• Monitor and maintain AI systems running in production, optimising cost, latency, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define clear AI tasks (e.g., document classification, summarisation, task prediction).
• Develop and enhance AI‑driven features such as document extraction, matching flows, quality checks, chatbots, and automated bookings.
• Stay up to date with advancements in AI and identify opportunities to improve the product.

Skills

Python

AI/ML frameworks

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangChain/LangGraph

Vector databases

MLOps

NLP

Documentation

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangChain/LangGraph

Job description

Qargo is seeking an AI Software Engineer to join our Ghent team. You will work across research, rapid prototyping and productionisation of AI features, applying state-of-the-art models (LLMs, vision, NLP) into our cloud-based Transport Management Platform.

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to solve real logistics challenges, scale and monitor AI components, and help shape Qargo's long-term AI strategy.