Lead AI Developer

OpenText; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText in Ireland's Cork region seeks a Principal AI Developer to design and deliver scalable AI systems with strong ownership of quality and performance.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive production readiness across the AI stack, contributing to the sovereign cloud and enterprise AI strategy.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Expertise in AI/ML frameworks, APIs, and production deployment.
• Experience with vector DBs, retrieval systems, or LLM frameworks.
• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and system design skills.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/AI or related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable AI services, orchestration layers, and APIs.
• Lead technical design and architecture decisions for AI systems.
• Ensure systems are scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.
• Own production readiness: monitoring, logging, incident response.
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce engineering standards.
• Implement LLMOps/MLOps practices (CI/CD, versioning, evaluation).
• Collaborate across teams to stand up OpenText’s Ireland Centre of Excellence.

Skills

AI services

Technical design

Scalability & observability

Production readiness

Mentoring engineers

LLMoPs / MLOps

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/AI

Tools

Vector databases

LLM frameworks

APIs

Job description

Opentext - The Information Company

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Your Impact

As OpenText accelerates its AI transformation, we are investing in Ireland as a strategic R&D center for advanced AI engineering, applied AI platforms, sovereign cloud, cybersecurity, and trusted enterprise innovation.

We’re looking to welcome a Principal AI Developer, who will be a senior technical leader responsible for designing and delivering scalable, production-grade AI systems with strong ownership of quality and performance.

This role is central to OpenText’s AI transformation and to the growth of OpenText’s Ireland R&D capability. You’ll help build the next generation of sovereign AI for Europe and play a founding role in standing up OpenText’s EMEA Centre of Excellence for Agentic AI & Sovereign Cloud, working at the forefront of multi‑agent AI orchestration in regulated environments.

You’ll own delivery end-to-end and work across the full AI stack rather than within a siloed team, giving you a direct line to enterprise-scale impact. Just as importantly, this is real ownership of foundational IP, not just services: you’ll contribute to core IP in agentic AI, data sovereignty, and cybersecurity, helping shape the technology rather than simply deploying existing tools.

You’re Great At

• Designing and building AI services, orchestration layers, and APIs
• Leading technical design and architecture decisions
• Ensuring systems are scalable, observable, and cost-efficient
• Owning production readiness: monitoring, logging, incident response
• Mentoring junior engineers and enforce engineering standards
• Implementing LLMOps/MLOps practices (CI/CD, versioning, evaluation)
• Optimizing systems for latency, throughput, and cost

What You Need To Succeed

• 6-8 years of experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms
• Expertise in AI/ML frameworks, APIs, and production deployment
• Experience with vector DBs, retrieval systems, or LLM frameworks
• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and system design skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related technical discipline.

One Last Thing

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned. AI is a central pillar of OpenText’s innovation strategy. It enables differentiated product experiences, intelligent automation, trusted enterprise decisioning, and new forms of customer value across our global portfolio.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [e-mail]. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.