Senior AI Engineer
Summary
Builds and maintains an AI assistant's core engine using Python, RAG, and LLM orchestration to execute customer requests safely in production.
This is us
At Avenga, we believe that human creativity empowers technology that matters. Operating globally, our 6000+ specialists provide a full spectrum of services, including business and tech advisory, enterprise solutions, CX, UX and Ul design, managed services, product development, and software development.
This is the job
You'll be working on the core engine of a production AI assistant, developing Agentic AI solutions using RAG and LLM orchestration to enable the assistant to move beyond answering questions and safely execute real customer requests.
This is you
3+ years building production Python services (async, API design)
Experience designing and building REST APIs (and consuming them); comfortable with request/response modelling, auth, and versioning
Hands-on experience building RAG / retrieval-augmented generation systems: not just calling an LLM API, but chunking, retrieval, and grounding answers in sources
Experience with any vector database (e.g. Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector) and an understanding of embeddings and similarity search
Worked with an LLM provider (OpenAI / Azure OpenAI / Anthropic / open models) in production
A habit of evaluating output quality, you can explain how you measured whether a RAG system was good
Writes automated tests as a matter of habit unit and integration testing with pytest (mocking, fixtures)
Comfortable with GitHub in a team workflow, feature branches, pull requests, and code review
Nice-to-have skills:
LlamaIndex (or LangChain) framework experience
Milvus specifically
Azure OpenAI deployments
LLM observability / tracing (Langfuse, LangSmith, OpenInference)
FastAPI, PydanticWebSocket / streaming APIs for real-time chat responses
API tooling and testing: Bruno / Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger; API gateways
Async & parallel testing and mocking AWS
Modern Python tooling: uv, ruff, ty/mypy, pre-commit
CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and trunk-based development with Conventional Commits
AWS (ECS/Fargate, Secrets Manager), Terraform, Docker
Multilingual NLP (Dutch/English)
What awaits you at Avenga?
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