Forward Deployed AI Engineer

We're looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who can bridge the gap between our technical team and clients. You'll help shape proposals, prepare demos, and quickly set up AI prototypes that show real value.

You'll work closely with our sales and delivery teams to understand client needs, translate them into feasible solutions, and help win new projects through convincing technical showcases.

What you'll do

• Support our presales efforts by helping design and deliver tailored AI demos and proofs of concept.

• Work closely with our AI engineers to translate client requirements into clear technical setups.

• Prepare data or model configurations that make our demos feel real and relevant to the client's business.

• Assist in writing the technical parts of proposals or presentations and bring them into production.

• Help clients and internal teams understand what's possible (and what's not) with today's AI tools. You know how to manage expectations.

• Strong background in NLP or applied AI, you understand how models, prompts, and data interact.

• Hands-on experience with Python.

• Experience with LLM infrastructure (Azure AI Foundry), LLM observability & evaluation and LLM orchestration. Basically a LLM expert.

• Able to set up quick prototypes using the tools you need.

• Comfortable talking to customers and explaining technical ideas in a clear, confident way.

• Curious, pragmatic, and fast, you like to make things work and show results.

• Fluent in English (Dutch or French is a plus).

Following experiences are a plus:

• Experience with multi-agent systems or evaluation pipelines in production.

• Background in automation, process mining, or workflow engineering.

• Experience deploying AI in enterprise environments (e.g. Microsoft ecosystem, CRM/ERP integration, or internal knowledge bases).

• Contributions to open-source AI frameworks or internal tooling.

• Prior experience in consulting, system integration, or enterprise software delivery.

Why Faktion

• A flexible hybrid working policy to choose where, how, and when you want to work. We only ask you to come once a week to the office.

• A rewarding salary package that includes additional perks like a company car and fuel card or mobility budget, comprehensive hospitalisation and group insurance, and a top-tier laptop and smartphone.

• Regular team-building activities and gatherings.

• Opportunities to represent Faktion at industry conferences and client events, you'll be the face of how real AI gets deployed in the wild.

• You will be able to contribute to our Greenfield project, evaluation-driven development (EDD), which will shape how companies use LLMs.