Production AI Engineer & MLOps Architect (Hybrid, Antwerp)

Pauwels Consulting; Antwerpen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (2 onsite days)

Permanent or freelance contract

Job summary

Pauwels Consulting in Belgium is seeking an AI Engineer to turn prototypes into scalable production systems, shaping MLOps foundations and agentic automation for core processes like claims management and fraud detection. You will guide data scientists on model deployment, design robust data and inference pipelines with CI/CD and observability, and collaborate across teams to securely integrate AI via APIs.

Hybrid work with two onsite days in Antwerp; permanent or freelance contracts are

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software or data engineering experience.
• 3+ years as an AI/ML/MLOps Engineer delivering production-grade solutions.
• Strong technical leadership, including architecture choices, code reviews, and coaching.
• Advanced Python knowledge and solid software engineering practices (clean code, testing).
• Experience with IaC using Terraform and container orchestration (Kubernetes/AKS).
• Hands-on Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, and Azure AI Search experience.
• Familiarity with RAG, Copilot Studio, and function calling.
• Excellent communication to explain technical choices to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate business challenges into production-ready AI solutions for core processes (underwriting, fraud management).
• Guide data scientists in model deployment with high security and governance standards.
• Design and build reliable data and inference pipelines, including CI/CD and observability.
• Lead the development of agentic solutions from MVP to production using RAG and orchestration patterns.
• Define evaluation and testing frameworks (red teaming, guardrails) to embed best practices.
• Advise product management on architectural feasibility and risks for AI initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to securely integrate AI via internal APIs.

Skills

Python

MLOps

AIOps

Agentic automation

RAG

Leadership

Communication

Fluent English

Dutch

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

AKS

Terraform

Azure ML

Azure OpenAI

AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Copilot Studio

Job description

Pauwels Consulting in Belgium is seeking an AI Engineer to turn prototypes into scalable production systems, shaping MLOps foundations and agentic automation for core processes like claims management and fraud detection. You will guide data scientists on model deployment, design robust data and inference pipelines with CI/CD and observability, and collaborate across teams to securely integrate AI via APIs.

Hybrid work with two onsite days in Antwerp; permanent or freelance contracts are