Senior AI Engineer — Remote-First, Equity & Learning Budget

Iris.ai; Brussel; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Learning & Development days

Private health insurance

Remote-first & flexible hours

Learning budget

Equipment budget

Team retreats

Job summary

Iris.ai is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to join a remote-first, AI-native team building production-ready AI systems powered by RAG, LLMs, and AI agents. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and product managers to deliver features that help users reason over complex knowledge.

You’ll contribute across the full lifecycle, shaping how next-gen AI is evaluated, trusted, and adopted in real-world workflows. Join a mission-driven, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development, including 3+ years with Python.
• Solid experience in web backends (Django/Flask), REST APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with ML systems or motivation to learn in depth.
• Ability to work in a remote-first, collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Own the full development lifecycle - from idea to architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of real-world AI products.
• Design and build robust AI systems, including Iris.ai’s RAG pipelines and LLM evaluation frameworks.
• Drive innovation by testing new approaches and bringing new AI research into production.
• Collaborate across teams - work closely with researchers, product managers, and fellow engineers to shape and ship powerful features.
• Build systems for performance and reliability, ensuring they are scalable, testable, and maintainable.
• Contribute to a global mission to transform how the world interacts with scientific knowledge and applied AI.

Skills

Python

Django/Flask

REST APIs

Cloud

English

Remote work

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Django

Flask

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Torch/Transformers

SpaCy

Job description

Iris.ai is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to join a remote-first, AI-native team building production-ready AI systems powered by RAG, LLMs, and AI agents. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and product managers to deliver features that help users reason over complex knowledge.

You’ll contribute across the full lifecycle, shaping how next-gen AI is evaluated, trusted, and adopted in real-world workflows. Join a mission-driven, globally distributed team.