AI Engineer

Role : AI Engineer for Venture fundLocation : Work from offices in Ghent (at least 3 days a week)Competitive salaryDesign the systems behind the next generation of venture investingWith Fortino Ventures, you'll build systems that remove friction, surface real signal, and quietly change how venture decisions get made - in service of founders building breakout B2B SaaS and AI companies.You'll sit inside a vibrant and international Ventures team. Their mantra is being authentic, bold, and conscious. Your work won't live in slides. It will shape live investment decisions from day one, using automation, data, and AI to create real edge.High trust. High standards. Real ownership.The mandateYou engineer how investing gets doneUnlock AI use cases across sourcing, selection, and portfolio managementBuild and prototype AI-assisted workflowsScrape and structure data across fragmented marketsAutomate company screening and early signal generationBuild tooling for competitive analysis and focused diligenceTurn internal data into repeatable decision advantageWhat works becomes infrastructure.What doesn't gets killed fast.Why this role is differentReal trust: you ship directly into live investment workflowsDirect exposure: front-row seat to how investors thinkHigh leverage: one system influences dozens of decisionsCompounding impact: you redesign the machine, not the outputNo hand-holding. No busywork. Just ownership.Could this be you?Comfortable building agentic AI systems (OpenAI / Anthropic, LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, RAG, evaluation tooling)Strong at scraping and data acquisition (APIs, crawlers, messy sources. You get signal where others see noise)Move comfortably across back-end and front-end (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL; React or similar on the front)Think in systems, incentives, and second-order effects, not isolated tasksOperate autonomously at a strategic level: you anticipate what's needed, act without waiting, and are already three steps aheadDeeply curious about technology, AI, and how exceptional companies actually winWe're looking for someone who creates momentum without being asked. Decisive, resilient, and relentlessly curious.If you need guardrails, this won't work. If you want autonomy and real responsibility early, it will.Interested? You can ... View the job and click 'apply'Email directly with a short note and a copy of your CV to: jo.altman@fortinocapital.com