Junior AI Engineer

Itineris; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybride; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible hybrid working

Office in Ghent, Belgium

Onboarding and buddy programs

Competitive perks & benefits

Résumé du poste

Itineris is seeking a Junior AI Engineer to join its AI Practice in Belgium. You will help design, configure, test, and improve AI agents, investigate behavior, and use experiments to enhance reliability.

You’ll support feasibility studies, document learnings, and turn valuable experiments into maintainable customer solutions. You’ll work with senior engineers, data specialists, and product teams, contributing to applied AI across client data and business problems, while growing your skills in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, AI, data science, software engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on Python experience through work, internships, or projects.
• Ability to approach unclear problems with questions, hypotheses, experiments, and evidence.
• Willingness to write clean code, tests and technical documentation.
• Experience with Git and automated development pipelines.

Responsabilités

• Build and configure AI agents using code-based tools and orchestration flows.
• Analyze agent behavior, identify failure patterns, and improve reliability.
• Run feasibility studies with data analysis and prototypes.
• Productize successful experiments into reusable components.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, product owners and domain experts; share findings.

Connaissances

Python experience

Data analysis

Git

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Communication

Willingness to learn

Formation

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/AI/DS/SE

Outils

Docker

Azure

LangChain

SQL

Description du poste

Junior AI Engineer

We are looking for a

Junior AI Engineer to join our AI Practice.

In this role, you will help design, configure, test, and improve AI agents. You will investigate how agents behave, identify where they succeed or fail, and use experiments and data analysis to make their results more reliable and useful.

Junior AI Engineer

We are looking for a Junior AI Engineer to join our AI Practice. In this role, you will help design, configure, test, and improve AI agents. You will investigate how agents behave, identify where they succeed or fail, and use experiments and data analysis to make their results more reliable and useful. You will also contribute to feasibility studies for new AI initiatives. This means understanding the business problem, exploring available data, testing possible solution approaches, and documenting what you learn. When an experiment proves valuable, you will work with more experienced team members to turn it into a maintainable solution that can be used by customers

What you will do...

Build and configure AI agents

• Set up AI agents using code-based tools
• Configure instructions, prompts, knowledge sources, tools, and orchestration flows
• Connect agents to approved business data and services
• Test how agents behave across expected, unexpected, and incomplete user requests
• Document agent configurations so experiments can be understood and repeated

Analyse and improve agent behaviour

• Review agent responses, execution traces, tool calls, and logs
• Identify recurring failure patterns such as incorrect answers, weak reasoning, poor source use, or unsuccessful tool selection
• Create representative test questions and evaluation datasets
• Define practical criteria for assessing answer quality, reliability, and usefulness
• Compare alternative prompts, models, tools, retrieval approaches, or orchestration patterns
• Turn findings into clear recommendations and improvement actions

Run feasibility studies

• Work with use-case leads, engineers, customers, and subject matter experts to understand a business problem
• Identify the questions that a feasibility study needs to answer
• Explore available data using Python, SQL, or visualization tools
• Assess data quality, completeness, relevance, and limitations
• Build small prototypes to test whether an idea is technically and practically viable
• Compare possible solution approaches and describe their trade-offs
• Present findings, risks, assumptions, and recommended next steps

Productize successful experiments

• Help move promising prototypes from notebooks or isolated experiments into reusable solution components
• Write clear, maintainable Python code
• Add tests, logging, configuration, and documentation
• Contribute to evaluation and regression pipelines
• Use version control and follow the team’s engineering practices
• Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Improve solutions based on evaluation results and feedback from real users
• Share learnings so that successful approaches can be reused across other use cases

Collaborate and learn

• Work closely with AI engineers, platform engineers, product owners, delivery leads, and domain experts.
• Ask questions early when requirements, data, or expected outcomes are unclear
• Communicate findings in plain language to technical and non-technical colleagues
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, demonstrations, and retrospectives
• Keep up with relevant developments in AI agents, language models, evaluation, and supporting tools
• Gradually take ownership of small use cases or defined parts of a larger solution

What we are looking for...

Essential skills

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, software engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• Hands-on experience with Python through employment,internships, academic projects, or personal projects
• Knowledge of data analysis using tools such as Python and SQL
• Ability to approach an unclear problem through questions, hypotheses, experiments, and evidence.
• Willingness to write clean code, tests, and technical documentation
• Experience with Git and automated development pipelines
• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain what you tried, what happened, and what you recommend
• Curiosity, attention to detail, and a willingness to learn from unsuccessful experiments
• Ability to work collaboratively and accept guidance and feedback

Useful

• An understanding of how language models and AI agents work at a practical level
• Interest in prompts, tool calling, knowledge retrieval, agent workflows, and evaluation
• Experience building a small application or prototype using a language model
• Familiarity with evaluation techniques such as scoring rubrics, test datasets, human review, or automated regression tests.
• Exposure to data visualisation tools suchas Power BI, or Python visualization libraries.
• Basic knowledge of containers (Docker) and Azure
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools

Our Stack

• Python, FastAPI, LangChain/LangGraph, Docker, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Container Apps, AKS, Cosmbos DB, Azure SQL, Copilot Studio

What we offer …

• A fast-growing and international environment with offices in beautiful Ghent (Belgium), bustling Atlanta (USA) and lively London (UK)
• Working with future-ready water and energy companies and building valuable utility expertise
• Internal mobility, developing your career through various educational programs and growth paths
• An entrepreneurial mindset where you have a direct impact on our growth journey
• An open environment where we make it a priority to celebrate milestones, both big and small
• Onboarding, learning and buddy programs to get ready for a smooth start in your new job
• A flexible and inclusive working environment, where people can just be who they are, and where we offer flexible options for hybrid working so you can work in a way that suits you best
• Competitive perks & benefits, because we want to help you reach your full potential, both at work and in your personal life
• A lot of fun moments with an eye for sports, celebration and wellbeing, important for maintaining a healthy work-life balance