🧭 Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced AI Solutions Architect / Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade AI solutions that leverage NLP, Machine Learning, and Generative AI. You will define AI solution architectures, train and operationalize advanced models, implement modern MLOps, and present blueprints to both technical and business stakeholders.
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- AI Solution Engineering
- Develop and maintain AI applications integrating NLP, ML, and Generative AI.
- Train custom ML/DL models (including transformer-based architectures) using structured and unstructured data.
- Architecture & Design
- Design end-to-end IT architectures for AI solutions, selecting appropriate models, components, and techniques.
- Apply modern AI approaches and enterprise IT architecture practices (scalability, security, observability).
- Present solution blueprints to technical and business audiences, moderate discussions, and collect feedback.
- Data, MDM, and MLOps
- Support best practices for data quality, master/metadata management, lineage, and governance.
- Implement modern MLOps: model/version registries, CI/CD for ML, feature stores, monitoring, retraining pipelines.
- Delivery & Integration
- Independently develop, test, document, and integrate AI/ML components into service-oriented architectures.
- Ensure production readiness: reliability, resilience, performance, security, and compliance.
- Collaboration & Communication
- Work closely with cross-functional teams (data engineers, architects, product owners).
- Translate business needs into AI capabilities and measurable outcomes.
🧠 Specific Expertise (Required)
- Programming & AI Stack
- Excellent Python skills and core AI/ML/NLP libraries: pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, spaCy, NLTK; experience with OpenAI APIs/SDKs.
- Advanced AI Techniques
- Proven experience with LLMs and generative AI (prompting, fine-tuning, adapters/LoRA, retrieval augmentation).
- ML algorithms and NLP pipelines in production contexts.
- Data & Platforms
- Modern data engineering practices: ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming/batch, metadata/model versioning.
- Database integration: SQL (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Cloud & Operations
- Hands-on deployment on AWS and/or Azure (compute, storage, security, networking, managed ML services).
- Software engineering and DevOps: Git workflows, CI/CD, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), observability.
- Architecture & Integration
- Experience integrating AI components within service-oriented and event-driven architectures.
- Ability to produce high-quality design docs, diagrams, and PoCs leading to scalable solutions.
- Ethics, Risk, and Compliance
- Awareness of ethical/legal implications of AI (bias, privacy, IP, model/data governance), ideally in enterprise or public sector environments.
🌟 Desirable Expertise (Assets)
- Experience with vector databases (e.g., FAISS, pgvector, Milvus), feature stores, model registries.
- Knowledge of security for AI systems: data anonymization, secret management, network policies, policy-based access.
- Experience with evaluation frameworks (e.g., RAGAS, prompt eval), guardrails, content filtering, red-teaming.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), workflow orchestration (Airflow, Argo), and serverless.
- Prior work with enterprise architecture tools (e.g., Sparx Enterprise Architect).
🗣️ Language
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).
- All documentation will be produced in English.
🧰 Tools & Methodologies
- Tools: MS Teams, IntelliJ, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, GitHub/GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, model registries.
- Methodologies/Frameworks: Agile, PM2@EC.
- Engineering Practices: Domain-Driven Architecture, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD), MLOps.
📅 Practical Details
- Location: onsite Brussels
- Contract Type: freelance or employee
Why Cronos Group?
We’ll propose you:
- An attractive salary package
- A good work-life balance environment
- The assurance of working in cutting-edge technologies in an entrepreneurial spirit.
- The opportunity to develop your skills thanks to tailor-made training courses according to your needs
- A good job in a friendly place
If
you wish to integrate a dynamic structure on a human scale while working with
the latest technologies, don't wait anymore and join Cronos!
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What We Do
Cronos Europa is an IT and digital communications company uniquely dedicated to serving the European institutions, agencies and bodies.
From the European Union to EUROCONTROL, we partner with a range of supranational and interinstitutional authorities.
Our mission is to arm them with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age.
Every aspect of our organisation is designed to complement their capabilities - from our people to our processes and our premises.
Our brand combines the expertise of former companies Cronos International and C-Dev, with the creative skills of Inspiiro and the breadth of capabilities of the Cronos Group.
Today, Cronos Europa employs over 1,000 people in offices across Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, serving institutions across diverse framework contracts.
Cronos Europa is part of the Cronos Group, one of the largest IT service providers in the Benelux, employing over 8,000 people across 200 competence centres.
By leveraging the Group’s resources, Cronos Europa can help clients extract value from new and emerging technologies, for everything from Artificial intelligence to Zg Quantum.
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