AI Research Engineer

AI Research Engineer

👉 About Scalian

Join our team of industry leaders at Scalian, where for over 30 years innovation and expertise come together. As a leading multinational engineering consultancy firm, we have over 5000 highly skilled specialists. Our focus on Digital Systems and Operational Performance, including IT, software and systems engineering, quality assurance, supply chain management, and project management, sets us apart in the industry.

Our expertise serves various technology sectors such as automotive, aerospace, medical, defense, rail and energy while providing distinctive support for their development and operations.

👉 Project Description

As an AI Research Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in language-based AI to develop a new system architecture, processes, and proof-of-concept for accurate chatbots, relevant to a wide range of industry partners. Experience with knowledge-based technologies (e.g., machine-readable ontologies) is a plus.

📌 Your Role:

• Develop and test RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines for various data sources
• Design agentic, knowledge-supported LLM (large language model) architectures for different stakeholders
• Explore prompt engineering techniques to optimize chatbot accuracy
• Lead and collaborate within the research team
• Train and share knowledge with team members

👉 Your strengths

• Master’s or PhD in AI, Machine Learning, LLM
• Demonstrable experience in at least one relevant research or industry project
• Strong motivation and passion for cutting-edge AI solutions
• Research-oriented mindset with a focus on technology and industry impact
• Knowledge in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, machine-readable ontologies, NLP models
• Professional communication skills in Dutch & English

👉 What Scalian can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary package and attractive extra-legal conditions (interesting bonus system, company car, hospitalization insurance, meal vouchers, eco-vouchers, etc.)
• Scalian is a people-oriented company where values as community, teamwork and career management are key

Position to be filled on a permanent basis, based in Leuven.

Do you recognize yourself in this project summary? Do not hesitate to contact us and send us your CV!