Founding AI Engineer

You won't join an existing AI team - you'll build it. You'll own the full AI stack end-to-end: RAG pipelines, multilingual NLP, cross-border contract engines. The whole thing.

This is a high-autonomy, high-trust role. We'll give you the space to figure things out, the support when you need it, and real users to build for. There's a genuine path to CTO / Senior Architect as we scale — not as a carrot, but because we'll need someone to grow into that seat.

• Building the AI stack from the ground up — architecture decisions are yours to make
• Designing RAG pipelines that pull from legal databases, templates, and jurisdiction-specific rules
• Working across languages — our models need to handle Dutch, French, English, and more to come when we enter new markets (Belgium already has three official languages, what's one more?)
• Shipping to production — 900+ customers use this daily, so what you build actually matters
• Architecting cross-border logic — legal rules differ between Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, and beyond
• Collaborating with the team — you'll work closely with our CPO, product team, and developers. We're small enough that everyone knows everyone, and big enough that you won't be doing it alone
• Helping us grow — as we scale, you'll help hire and shape the engineering culture
• Staying curious — new models, new frameworks, new techniques. We'll back you to explore them

We're not looking for a perfect checklist match. If you recognize yourself in most of these, let's talk:

• You've spent 1+ years building ML/AI systems
• You're comfortable with tools like PyTorch, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Hugging Face
• You've worked with LLMs — prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, evals
• You know your way around NLP — embeddings, text generation, ideally in multiple languages
• You've deployed and monitored ML systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• You ship things. You'd rather have something working than something perfect on a whiteboard
• You're comfortable figuring things out as you go — we'll give you a compass, not a GPS
• You speak fluent Dutch and English, French is a plus

• Experience in legal tech or regulated industries
• Background in document generation
• Familiarity with Belgian/European legal frameworks
• Having built a team (or part of one) from scratch

We're 20 people. That means no layers, no politics, no "let me check with my manager's manager." You'll know everyone by name within a week.

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We celebrate wins together (usually with food), help each other out when things get stuck, and genuinely enjoy working as a team. If you've ever been at a company where people actually look forward to the team call — that's the vibe we're going for.

• Founding role — shape the AI direction from day one
• Path to CTO — this role grows as the company grows
• Real impact — your work goes live to 900+ customers, not into a backlog
• Hybrid flexibility — office in Ghent + remote. We care about output, not hours in a chair
• Competitive salary — depending on experience
• Learning budget — conferences, courses, tools. Stay sharp, stay curious
• A team that has your back — we're in this together

• Google Cloud-based SaaS platform
• .NET stack (C#), VUE, Firebase
• You get licenses to work with Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Devin.ai, etc
• You'll have real influence over tooling and architecture choices

Send us:

1. Your CV or LinkedIn
2. A short note about one AI thing you've built — what it did, what you learned
3. Why this sounds interesting to you

That's it. No formal cover letter needed. We'd rather have a real conversation.

Contact: jurgen.suls@instaclause.com

Instaclause is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds. Come as you are.