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About the role
- As our first dedicated full-time AI Engineer, your mission is to own the end-to-end lifecycle of our generative AI features, taking them from MVPs to robust, production-grade services.
- Reporting to the IT Lead, you will be the hands-on expert responsible for building and scaling our AI capabilities.
- You will implement features like document summarization and Q&A chat, build MLOps on Azure, and establish the best practices that will become the foundation for our future AI team.
- This is a senior Individual Contributor role: hands-on delivery first, with influence on architecture and future hiring.
Requirements
- 5+ years in MLOps/Data (SaaS/cloud) with shipped production systems.
- 2+ years of specific experience with Generative AI (LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, etc.).
- Proven RAG delivery with production-grade evals (automatic + targeted human review), observability (traces, prompt/response logging with PII-safe redaction), and safeguards (prompt-injection/jailbreak mitigations).
- Python + Docker; MLflow; Azure (Azure OpenAI or compatible), vector index (Azure AI Search/pgvector/Elastic), and async orchestration.
- High ownership; challenges assumptions with data.
- You are a strong communicator, fluent in English, and thrive in a remote-first, cross-functional environment.
- Experience with Databricks, Ray, or Kedro is a strong plus.
- You must be eligible to work in Portugal (i.e., be an EU citizen or hold a valid Portuguese work permit).
Benefits
- A stable, agile, and non-bureaucratic environment where you can focus on building impactful AI features.
- A remote-first culture with flexible working hours designed for your best individual performance.
- An exciting environment with many opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Significant creative freedom for your ideas and initiatives.
- A permanent, full-time employment contract.
- Unlimited vacation days to ensure you stay energized and refreshed.
- Company events to celebrate our collective successes.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
MLOpsGenerative AIprompt engineeringretrieval-augmented generationPythonDockerMLflowAzurevector indexasync orchestration
Soft Skills
high ownershipstrong communicatorfluent in Englishcross-functional collaboration