Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2026-0043

Role Background

NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), as the main ICT service provider in NATO, is the main technical entity providing subject matter expertise to support NATO Cyber and Digital Transformation (CDT) Branch’s Innovation Programmes of Work (PoW) and relevant activities in 2026. NCIA Chief Technology Office (CTO) is looking for a Contractor who will provide full-stack software development support to the PoW projects.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support NCIA in the NATO Programmes of Work with CDT in the area of software development for digital innovation and technology applications.
• Develop advanced application capabilities for analysts, enabling the exploration, analysis, and synthesis of strategic foresight analysis data through complex, multi-step user experience workflows, including cross-article reasoning, topic engineering, source intelligence, and relevance assessment.
• Develop full-stack integrations with AI-enabled backend services, including the exposure of AI-driven analytical functions, retrieval mechanisms, and automated synthesis capabilities in a controlled and user-transparent manner.
• Apply sound software design principles to ensure transparent, auditable, and controllable analytical workflows, including clear traceability between inputs, sources, AI-assisted reasoning steps, and generated outputs, suitable for high-trust analytical and policy environments.
• Deliver deployment-ready solutions that are compatible with restricted and secure environments, including solutions subject to accreditation for NATO UNCLASSIFIED (NU) deployment, and capable of operating under governance, security, and operational constraints beyond standard commercial systems.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Senior-level full stack development experience with at least 8 years of experience, covering: frontend and backend development, system architecture, integration, implementation and end-to-end ownership from design through deployment.
• Extensive knowledge in frontend (Vue.js, React, Astro) and backend frameworks (Python, FastAPI), including: Frontend application architecture and state management, backend API design, schema validation, and service orchestration.
• Proven experience integrating frontend applications with backend APIs and data services, including: high-volume data ingestion and querying, search, retrieval, and analytics- oriented backends, performance-aware UI–backend interaction patterns. The bidder must provide at least two project examples demonstrating the experience.
• Practical experience integrating AI and LLM-based services, including: LLM-powered analysis, synthesis, and content generation, retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) or hybrid retrieval approaches and deterministic, traceable, and auditable AI outputs suitable for policy and analytical use.
• Experience with designing and implementing analyst-facing workflows, with emphasis on: transparency of analytical results, traceability of sources, reasoning, and outputs, user control over inputs, filters, and relevance criteria.
• Experience working in analytical decision-support contexts or strategic foresight, including: Topic engineering and thematic analysis, source intelligence and relevance assessment, multi-source analytical synthesis.
• Ability to work independently at senior level, including: structuring complex systems from high-level requirements, translating abstract objectives into concrete technical deliverables and delivery constraints
• Experience with analytical platforms, such as strategic foresight analysis, emerging and disruptive technologies assessment, or decision-support tooling.
• Experience deploying solutions in restricted, controlled, or secure environments, including: separation of environments, controlled AI service integration, deployment constraints beyond standard commercial cloud setups
• Candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.

Language

• Excellent command of spoken and written English. 

Working Location

• Offsite

Working Policy

• Remote

Travel

This Task Order requires travel, consisting of up to 3 visits to NCIA Brussels (one per quarter) for a maximum of one working day each visit. Travel dates will be planned during the Project Kick-off Meeting with NCIA Project Manager. The travel, lodging and associated expenses for travel are included in the price of the bid (NTE), such that the purchaser shall not be invoiced.

Extraordinary Travel (Purchaser Directed Travel) may be required to other NATO or non- ATO locations as necessary. In the event of such unforeseen meetings being called, the cost of all travel and subsistence will be addressed through a contract amendment.

Extraordinary Travel expenses will be reimbursed in accordance with Article 5.5 of AAS+ Framework Contract. Such costs will be set as a separate PO line with a not to exceed value to cover and reimburse of actual expenses upon submissions of all receipts and invoices in line with NCIA processes.

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

Joining Collibra’s Unstructured AI Team

• Work at the forefront of context engineering - shaping how AI systems retrieve, structure, and leverage context to deliver accurate, high-quality results at scale.
• Own end-to-end technical delivery of Unstructured AI systems - from feature prototype to stable production across enterprise environments.
• Build and scale full-stack systems that ingest, process, and enrich large volumes of unstructured content from distributed enterprise silos (PDFs, contracts, reports, and other document types).
• Collaborate with the Best: Work closely with xYC Founders to understand complex business challenges and deliver Deasy to solve them. Be part of a dynamic team where ideas flow freely and creativity thrives.
• Learn and Lead: Stay ahead of the curve by engaging with the latest developments in machine learning and AI. Share knowledge and lead by example to maintain high building standards.

This is a hybrid role based in our Brussels office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.

Senior AI Engineer at Collibra are responsible for

• Shipping complex systems under ambiguity - balancing speed and precision in real environments.
• Writing and reviewing production-grade code across backend (Python, FastAPI).
• Building/deploying document-processing systems that handle large-scale, unstructured data environments.
• Integrating data from diverse enterprise data sources (e.g., SharePoint, Salesforce, or internal APIs) to provide context for AI features.
• Partnering across engineering, product, and sales teams, ensuring alignment from prototype to rollout.
• Occasionally working with modern frontend development.

You have

• Strong proficiency in Python (data processing, API development, and integrations).
• Hands-on work with LLM-based and AI-driven enrichment models (e.g., classification, entity extraction, deduplication, PII detection).
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade systems using Big Data frameworks (e.g., Spark) to handle data at scale.
• Solid understanding of data pipelines, microservice architecture, and API design.
• Experience ingesting and processing data from third-party enterprise sources (e.g., SharePoint/OneDrive, Salesforce, and SaaS-based knowledge bases).
• Strong communication skills across technical and business teams.
• Calm, structured decision-making under tight timelines or ambiguity.
• Familiarity with metadata systems, data cataloging, or document AI workflows.
• Knowledge of model evaluation best practices.
• Experience with search relevance.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required.
• You must have work authorization to work in Brussels. 

You Are

• Calm, structured decision-making under tight timelines or ambiguity.
• Capable of communicating clearly across engineering, product, and field teams, ensuring alignment from prototype to rollout.
• Experienced in spotting risks early, course-correcting without friction, and model composure when delivery timelines are tight.
• Someone who cares deeply about data quality, precision, and governance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across technical and business teams.

Measures of Success

• Within your first month, you will develop a deep understanding of our product vision and the unstructured data stack that powers it, shipping your first set of end-to-end features.
• Within your third month, you will take full ownership of technical delivery for key product areas, building robust capabilities that handle complex document processing and ensure a stable, high-performance experience for users interacting with diverse data sources.
• Within your sixth month, you will drive the development of ambitious, enterprise-grade AI product features that solve for data at scale, architecting the high-performance pipelines and advanced context engineering required to deliver accurate, reliable results.

Joining Collibra’s Unstructured AI Team

We’re shaping the way some of the largest organizations in the world manage data by helping customers connect the right data and insights for all Data Citizens. We are building a team of exceptional people to help us deliver on that promise. As a Deployed Engineer, you are the guiding force behind bringing Collibra's product and vision to customers and prospects. Engineers establish knowledgeable and trusted relationships from day one and serve as thoughtful technical advisors.

This is a hybrid role based in our Brussels office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Collibra are responsible for

• Own end-to-end technical delivery of Unstructured AI deployments — from first prototype to stable production across enterprise environments.
• Build and scale full-stack systems that process and enrich large volumes of unstructured content (PDFs, contracts, reports, and other document types).
• Embed closely with customer and field teams to understand their metadata, governance, and security needs - guiding how Unstructured AI integrates into their broader Collibra stack.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early to ensure fast iteration cycles between product, research, and deployment teams.
• Balance scope, speed, and quality - making clear trade-offs to keep pilots moving and convert them into production rollouts.
• Codify repeatable patterns from customer projects into reusable connectors, enrichment modules, or playbooks that accelerate future deployments.
• Feed field insights back to Product and Research, identifying opportunities to improve product experience.
• Keep cross-functional teams aligned through clear communication, prioritization, and follow-through.

You have

• Shipped complex systems under ambiguity - balancing speed and precision in real customer environments.
• Written and reviewed production-grade code across backend (Python, FastAPI).
• Built or deployed document-processing systems and are comfortable with CI/CD, monitoring, and debugging tools.
• 2+ years of software engineering or technical deployment experience,  ideally involving enterprise integrations, AI data processing, or customer-facing delivery.
• Strong proficiency in Python (data processing, API development, and integrations).
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade systems that process large-scale unstructured data (PDFs, text, documents).
• Solid understanding of data pipelines, microservice architecture, and API design.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and containerization (Docker / Kubernetes).
• Experience with LLM-based or AI-driven enrichment models (classification, extraction, deduplication, PII detection).
• Familiar with metadata systems, data cataloging, or document AI workflows.
• Background in data governance, sensitive data detection, or enterprise integrations (Collibra, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).
• A track record of codifying repeatable deployment patterns into tools, SDKs, or frameworks.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and model evaluation best practices.
• A bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent related working experience.
• You must have work authorization to work in Brussels.

You are

• Capable of communicating clearly across engineering, product, and field teams, ensuring alignment from prototype to rollout.
• Experienced in spotting risks early, course-correcting without friction, and model composure when delivery timelines are tight.
• Someone who cares deeply about data quality, precision, and governance.
• Willing to gain hands-on experience with modern frontend development.
• Able to translate customer requirements into technical plans and deliver end-to-end.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across technical and business teams.
• Calm, structured decision-making under tight timelines or ambiguity.

Measures of Success

Within your first month, you will…

• Develop a deep understanding of how enterprises manage and transform unstructured data, including document pipelines, metadata systems, and retrieval architectures.
• Partner closely with former YC founders and senior product leadership to see how we run a fast, startup-style execution motion inside a scaled organization. You will then ship your first end-to-end feature across the stack (backend, infrastructure, and UI), directly improving the product used by real customers.

Within your third month, you will…

• Deploy the product and your features in multiple Fortune 500 customer environments, often working inside the customer’s cloud and data perimeter. You will serve as the connective tissue between GTM, Product, Engineering, and Customer teams, translating customer feedback into product direction and execution plans.

Within your sixth month, you will…

• Become an expert in context engineering, designing how data, metadata, and domain knowledge flow into AI systems to maximize reliability, relevance, and decision quality.
• Independently lead complex deployments, transforming unstructured and structured data to support AI-driven decision making at enterprise scale. You will use the Unstructured AI platform to build enterprise-grade AI products within customer environments, shaping how AI agents reason over real-world data.

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward.   

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
• Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI

Technical Requirements:

• Swift Programming Language
• SwiftUI experience
• Experience in Multithreading Programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID
• Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

What We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Senior Python / Agentic AI Engineer

Capco: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Capco is a global leader in consulting, uniquely positioned to drive innovation and transformation in the financial services industry. More than consultants, we are strategic partners and problem solvers for some of the largest organizations in Banking, Insurance, Investment Management, Data/Digital Transformation, Regulatory Compliance, and ICT Risk. Our business and technology professionals thrive in a dynamic environment where creativity, collaboration, and cutting-edge solutions are at the heart of everything we do. Experience the Capco difference and explore how you can shape your future with us at capco.com.

Capco’s AI Lab

The AI Lab is a cross-disciplinary research and engineering centre that translates advanced AI research into robust, deployable solutions for clients and internal products. It runs applied research (ML and agentic/LLM systems, planning, simulation and evaluation), rapid prototyping and production engineering (APIs, CI/CD, observability, data platforms and cost/latency optimisation), and rigorous evaluation and safety work (benchmarks, red-teaming, monitoring, governance and compliance). The lab also supports client engagements and internal innovation by building demonstrators and reference architectures, transferring technology to delivery teams, publishing technical learnings, and maintaining the shared infrastructure, tooling and best practices that enable reproducible, secure and scalable AI deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, production-grade Python services that leverage LLMs and Agentic architectures.
• Design and implement robust agent workflows and orchestration patterns to automate complex business processes in regulated enterprise environments.
• Build and maintain reliable AI-enabled backend systems, including orchestration layers, tool integrations, knowledge access mechanisms, and observability.
• Design modern knowledge access architectures for LLM systems, including retrieval strategies, semantic indexing, and structured interfaces to enterprise data sources.
• Apply strong software engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, monitoring, structured logging, versioning of prompts and models) to ensure reliability and maintainability of AI systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows.
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate business requirements into secure, compliant, and scalable AI-driven solutions.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions including agent orchestration, reasoning workflows, knowledge access strategies, and model integration patterns.
• Optionally contribute to user interfaces using Angular or React to support AI-powered applications.
• Ensure systems meet enterprise standards for security, reliability, and compliance.

Required Experience

• Fluent in English and fluent in Dutch or French.
• 5+ years of professional experience building enterprise-grade Python applications, with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and deploying Agentic or LLM-powered systems in production, ideally within enterprise or regulated environments.
• Strong expertise applying large language models to complex automation, information retrieval, and decision-support problems.
• Experience designing agentic architectures, including orchestration, tool usage, planning workflows, and system-level reasoning patterns.
• Experience building LLM systems that combine reasoning, tool access, and dynamic information retrieval, beyond simple prompt pipelines.
• Deep proficiency in Python, including modern frameworks, OOP, design patterns and best practices.
• Experience developing production APIs and backend services that integrate with enterprise systems and data sources.
• Demonstrated experience building reliable AI systems beyond prototypes, with attention to testing, monitoring, evaluation, and operational stability.

Why Join Capco?

• Capco provides an environment where your expertise and innovative ideas will thrive. Here’s why you’ll love working with us:
• Competitive Compensation: Includes a company car or green mobility budget, allowances, end-of-year bonuses, health insurance, mobile phone, laptop, and meal vouchers.
• Learning Opportunities: Gain access to advanced learning platforms, in-person and virtual courses, and our network of global experts to support your continuous development.
• Flexible Working Environment: Enjoy a hybrid setting, combining the benefits of remote flexibility with in-office collaboration.
• Work-Life Balance: Work in a supportive environment designed to encourage balance and wellness both personally and professionally.
• Innovative Culture: Operate in a non-hierarchical workspace where great ideas and initiative are celebrated, giving you a platform to showcase your expertise.