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# Senior AI Engineer at Collibra

- **Company:** Collibra
- **Location:** Brussels, Belgium
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://www.collibra.com/us/en/company/careers/job-listing/?gh_jid=8109443

## Job description

Joining Collibra's Artificial Intelligence team

Collibra is the context engine that powers trustworthy enterprise AI, giving LLMs and agents the business context they need to reason accurately over an organization's data, while our governance platform ensures that same context, and the AI acting on it, stays governed, secure, and compliant. It's a two-sided problem: making AI smarter with context, and making sure that context and AI stay under control.

This is not an internal data science or research role. You'll be building AI features that ship directly into the Collibra product used by real companies, including some of the largest enterprises and government agencies in the world, across every industry and continent. Real production AI: streaming responses, agent loops with checkpointing and resumption, running at scale for customers who depend on it daily. We need someone who combines strong software engineering with data science judgment to build it and keep it running.

You'll work closely with Data Scientists, other AI Engineers, and MLOps Engineers, plus teams across Collibra, taking AI products from prototype to production and beyond.

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 Engineers at Collibra are responsible for

- Shipping AI features into a real, live product not a prototype, not an internal tool used by companies around the world.
- Building, instrumenting, and evaluating AI/ML models and treat a quiet, no-output failure as a bug, not a shrug.
- Helping shape how Collibra's AI platform evolves, and mentor other engineers along the way

You have

- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and running production systems, with 3+ years applying data science/ML in production (LLM applications, RAG, NLP, recommendation engines).
- Hands-on with agent-loop frameworks (e.g., LangGraph) and tool-calling standards (e.g., MCP): tool cycles, state across steps, human-in-the-loop interrupts, checkpointing and resumption.
- Experience with agent harness architecture, such as  sandboxed code execution, tool permissioning, safely orchestrating autonomous actions.
- Experience with agent evaluation frameworks which test tool-calling behavior and agent trajectories.
- Strong observability instincts: a silent, no-output turn reads as a defect, not a non-event.
- Retrieval/RAG judgment: hybrid semantic + keyword search, rank fusion, precision/recall tradeoffs.
- Experience building stateless services at real scale multi-replica deployments, no sticky sessions, concurrent requests.
- Comfortable with SQL and relational databases, plus familiarity with time-series, graph, or vector databases.
- Strong command of modern Python typing/validation (Pydantic v2) and production AI tooling (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.).
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent related working experience is required.

You are

- Deeply technical and analytical, driven by what the system is actually telling you,  not the tidiest story.
- Able to cut through AI hype to find the real, shippable problem underneath.
- Excited by the architectural and mathematical challenges of building sustainable, governed value on LLMs.
- A clear communicator, equally comfortable in deep technical detail and the big picture, with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Product-minded:  you think about how a real customer actually experiences an AI feature, not just whether it's technically impressive.
- A renaissance engineer at the forefront of agentic coding. You are  fluent with AI-assisted development, but not a "vibe coder"; you treat these tools as leverage, not a substitute for understanding your own code, and you own the output and its cost.
- Curious and generous with what you learn nobody has this fully figured out yet, and we're building the playbook together.

Measures of success

- Within your first month, you're oriented. You understand the architecture, the existing AI products, and how they fit into the Collibra platform.
- Within your third month, you're shipping. New AI/ML features are going out into the SaaS platform with your fingerprints on them.
- Within your sixth month, you're operating and steering. Your work is running in production for real customers, and you're helping shape what we build next.

## Benefits at Collibra

Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. Learn more about [Collibra’s benefits](https://www.collibra.com/us/en/company/careers/benefits).

We create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Learn more about [diversity, equity, and inclusion](https://www.collibra.com/us/en/company/careers/dei) at Collibra.

At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our [Accommodations for Applicants form](https://www.collibra.com/us/en/company/careers/accommodations).

## About Collibra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Collibra provides a unified platform for data and AI governance, enabling organizations to manage, trust, and govern their data and AI assets at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (growth-stage, backed by venture capital)
- **Headquarters**: New York, USA (global HQ) & Brussels, Belgium (founding HQ)
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: Felix Van de Maele (CEO) and Stijn Christiaens (Chief Data Citizen)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Data governance, AI governance, data intelligence, data cataloging, compliance, and privacy.
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises across industries (700+ customers, including over 100 of the Fortune 500). B2B, enterprise focus.
- **Mission**: "Empower Data Citizens to take command of data and AI, transforming possibility into progress."

## Products & Services
- **Collibra Data Intelligence Platform**: End-to-end platform for data cataloging, governance, lineage, and quality. Helps organizations find, understand, and trust their data.
- **AI Command Center**: A control plane for enterprise AI, providing visibility, traceability, and governance over AI models and usage. Automates risk detection and compliance.
- **Deasy Labs**: Unstructured data processing and AI-ready context extraction, turning documents, images, and text into governed, usable assets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, indicating significant scale.
- **Key Metric**: Over 700 customers worldwide; ~1,000 global employees; 300+ service partners.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Specific investors not listed in public sources, but strong partnerships with Google Cloud (multiple Technology Partner of the Year awards), Databricks (Data Governance Partner of the Year), and Snowflake (Data Cloud Product Data Governance Partner of the Year).
- **Growth Signals**: Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms (2nd consecutive year); expansion of AI governance capabilities; continuous headcount growth across engineering, sales, and customer success teams.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified governance**: Only platform that converges data and AI governance into a single control plane, reducing fragmentation.
- **Trust signals & automation**: Built-in traceability, risk detection, and automated compliance for AI systems.
- **Ecosystem lock-in**: Deep integrations with major cloud providers (Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake) and industry awards reinforce credibility.
- **Enterprise scale**: Proven with 100+ Fortune 500 customers, handling complex hybrid data ecosystems.

## Strategic Focus
- **Convergence of data and AI governance**: Collibra aims to become the "connective layer" for transparency, accountability, and speed across enterprise data and AI.
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in AI Command Center, Deasy Labs, and lineage automation.
- **Global expansion**: Growing teams in New York, Brussels, Prague, London, and Raleigh.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "One Collibra" – collaborative, ego-free team culture; "show up to win" with a bias for action; "respectfully direct" communication.
- **Values**: Builders and amplifiers, customer-obsessed, ownership, continuous improvement.
- **Benefits**: Competitive total rewards including pension/401k, equity for eligible roles, Flex Fund monthly stipend (for connectivity, gym, groceries, etc.), generous leave policies (20 days short-term sick leave, 10 days caregiver leave, 10 days bereavement), mental health support (6 free counseling sessions per event), global EAP.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/flexible culture with offices in multiple cities; global team with diverse backgrounds.
- **DEI**: Equal opportunity workplace, inclusive onboarding and engagement programs, commitment to ESG beyond checklist.
- **Engineering focus**: Teams work on scalable systems, AI, data infrastructure, and Postgres database engineering. 29 active job openings across engineering, product, sales, finance, and security.

## Sources
1. [Collibra Who We Are](https://www.collibra.com/company/who-we-are)
2. [Collibra Careers](https://www.collibra.com/company/careers)
3. [Collibra Benefits](https://www.collibra.com/company/careers/benefits)
4. [Collibra Leadership](https://www.collibra.com/company/leadership)
5. [Collibra Homepage](https://www.collibra.com/)

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