AI Engineer
Build, ship and scale AI solutions
- Porto
- Permanent
- IT
- 01.10.2026
- Full-time
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Are you a passionate AI Engineer eager to build AI solutions that will reshape the European job market?
We’re looking for an AI Engineer to join our cross-functional AI Hub, working across teams and products to turn the latest advances in AI into solutions used by our customers and internal teams. In this high-impact role, you’ll design, build and deploy AI-powered applications and services, working with technologies such as LLMs, Generative AI, RAG and intelligent agents. You’ll experiment with new approaches, rapidly turn ideas into prototypes, and take the most promising solutions all the way into production.
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YOUR TASKS
- Design, build, and operate production AI applications that connect language models with enterprise data, APIs, and business workflows.
- Develop conversational and AI-assisted experiences using tool calling, structured outputs, orchestration, state management, and appropriate combinations of deterministic workflows, RAG, and agentic behavior.
- Integrate and prepare data from APIs, databases, document repositories, and event-driven systems, ensuring it remains secure, current, and suitable for AI use.
- Establish automated evaluation, testing, monitoring, tracing, feedback, and safe fallback mechanisms covering quality, groundedness, reliability, latency, and cost.
- Collaborate with platform and security teams on deployment, CI/CD, observability, access control, privacy, auditing, and prompt-injection defenses.
- Own technical designs, communicate trade-offs, review code, mentor colleagues, and turn ambiguous business needs into maintainable solutions.
YOUR SKILLS
- Strong Python and production software-engineering skills, including backend APIs, containers, CI/CD, cloud deployment, and observability.
- Experience delivering LLM-powered, machine-learning, or data-intensive applications beyond proof-of-concept work.
- Experience integrating heterogeneous enterprise data sources and building reliable data-preparation and synchronization workflows.
- Practical experience with grounded AI applications, tool or function calling, structured outputs, and evaluation of nondeterministic systems.
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, privacy, and secure data handling.
- Sound architectural judgment and the ability to lead technical discussions with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
OUR OFFER
- 1 day per month to tackle challenges inside the project, or test new ideas
- Tech training and human skills training and, budget for conferences
- Opportunity to travel and collaborate in our various office locations for workshops or team-building events (Zurich, Geneva, Belgrade or Vienna)
- A dynamic work environment that highly fosters a sense of fun while maintaining a productive atmosphere
- A competitive salary & career ladder
Our Hiring Process
- Video call with People & Culture (30 mins)
- Technical conversation with the hiring manager (45 to 60 mins)
- Tech challenge (async)
- Challenge presentation (60 mins)
- Offer
- 10 days fully paid sick leave per year
- 25 days of annual vacation leave
- Full private health coverage (employee + up to 2 children to age 20)
- Gym allowance
- Hybrid & flexible working (team-based arrangement)
- Learning & Development
- Workation
YOUR CONTACT PERSON
Head of Operations