AI Privacy Engineer – Data Protection by Design

Axians; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Axians seeks an AI Privacy Engineer to lead data protection for AI use cases in Lisbon region. You will translate GDPR and EU AI Act requirements into actionable guidance for AI engineers and platform teams, ensuring privacy-by-design across systems.

You will conduct DPIAs, manage data subject rights, and maintain comprehensive documentation while coordinating with Data Protection and AI Security teams. Fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience with additional legal qualification in EU jurisdiction.
• 3+ years of experience in an international corporation.
• Strong working knowledge of the GDPR.
• Solid technical grounding in modern AI systems (LLMs, RAG, vector stores, agents).
• Experience with DPIAs, international data transfers and data subject rights at scale.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to challenge solution design.
• Pragmatic, outcome-driven, comfortable operating under ambiguity.
• Fluent English; additional European language is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI data protection gate for AI use cases, including evidence preparation and go/no-go decisions.
• Translate data protection requirements into actionable guidance for AI engineers and platform teams.
• Ensure data protection is embedded into system design and implementation for compliant AI solutions.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation (data flows, RoPAs, design decisions, controls).
• Carry out privacy risk assessments (DPIA, AI risk analysis) for AI use cases.
• Define and drive pragmatic mitigation measures with engineering teams.
• Bridge between engineering and data protection functions for transparency and alignment.
• Enable scalable governance with auditable compliance evidence across AI systems.
• Embed data protection by design across AI use cases, ensuring lawful basis, purpose limitation, minimization, retention, transparency.
• Coordinate handling of data subject rights and readiness for AI-related data incidents.

Skills

GDPR knowledge

AI systems knowledge

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Legal qualification (LL.B./LL.M./CIP/E) in EU

Job description

Axians seeks an AI Privacy Engineer to lead data protection for AI use cases in Lisbon region. You will translate GDPR and EU AI Act requirements into actionable guidance for AI engineers and platform teams, ensuring privacy-by-design across systems.

You will conduct DPIAs, manage data subject rights, and maintain comprehensive documentation while coordinating with Data Protection and AI Security teams. Fluent English required.