Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer – Ghent, Belgium

My client based in Ghent, are searching an AI Engineer with a strong background in training large-scale models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) or similar architectures. This role involves close collaboration with hardware and software teams to optimize model performance across custom computing environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and optimize large-scale AI models, including LLMs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure efficient deployment on specialized hardware.
• Improve training efficiency, accuracy, and hardware utilization.
• Implement distributed training strategies at scale.
• Apply advanced techniques like sparsity, quantization, and distillation.
• Use frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, and Hugging Face Transformers.
• Benchmark and profile models on custom accelerators.
• Stay current with AI and hardware advancements and contribute to ongoing R&D efforts.

Qualifications

• BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or related field.
• Proven experience training and deploying large AI models (LLMs or similar).
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with major ML frameworks.
• Experience with distributed training and large-scale data.
• Knowledge of model optimization and hardware-aware AI design.
• Background in hardware/software co-design is a plus.

Location: Ghent, Belgium

Onsite: 50%

Contract Type: Freelance

Contract Duration: 6 Months+