AI Architecture Lead: Production ML & Agentic Systems

UMO Tech; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic work environment

Annual leave 24 days

Home office stipend

Learning budget

Executive leadership path

Impact & ownership

Job summary

UMO Tech is building a next‑generation AI-powered money platform. We seek a senior engineering leader to own the core AI architecture, lead an autonomous AI engineering squad, and ship production-grade agentic systems.

You will work across Lisbon, Kyiv, and Dubai with remote options, mentoring engineers and aligning product goals with robust security and compliance. You will design and implement scalable AI foundations, integrate LLMs with retrieval systems, and ensure production reliability,

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leader with hands-on ML/AI architecture experience in production.
• Experience shipping agentic AI systems into production with measurable outcomes.
• Knowledge of privacy and security controls for regulated environments.
• Experience with retrieval and semantic search architectures.
• Ability to measure AI systems for quality, cost, and latency.
• Comfort designing fintech/crypto-grade compliant architectures (bonus).
• Strong Python and asynchronous programming skills.
• Proficiency with modern LLM tooling and orchestration.
• Ability to maintain deadlines and share context across teams.
• Fluency in English for global collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing AI engineering squad, conducting reviews and setting architecture.
• Design core AI architecture integrating LLMs and retrieval with transactional systems.
• Own end-to-end outcomes and production-ready deployment of AI models.
• Develop agentic frameworks and deterministic bridges for complex autonomous tasks.
• Collaborate with backend and data engineers to productionize agentic workflows.

Skills

Leadership

LLM production

Semantic search

AI evaluation

Data privacy

Regulated environment

Python

Async programming

AI tools

English fluency

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Copilot

Job description

UMO Tech is building a next‑generation AI-powered money platform. We seek a senior engineering leader to own the core AI architecture, lead an autonomous AI engineering squad, and ship production-grade agentic systems.

You will work across Lisbon, Kyiv, and Dubai with remote options, mentoring engineers and aligning product goals with robust security and compliance. You will design and implement scalable AI foundations, integrate LLMs with retrieval systems, and ensure production reliability,