AI Senior Engineer

ITSector; Bragança; Híbrido; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health Insurance

Hybrid work model

Training & certifications

Team building & events

Flexible work-life balance

Descripción de la vacante

ITSector is seeking an experienced AI software engineer to design, develop, and maintain AI-powered applications and intelligent agents. You will build integrations between AI models and enterprise systems, and develop scalable pipelines for knowledge retrieval and processing.

The role requires strong Python and .NET skills, hands-on experience with modern LLMs, and a solid background in AI pipelines, security, and production-grade software engineering.

Formación

• Degree in Computer Engineering, AI or similar.
• Min 5 years professional software engineering experience, incl. 3+ years in AI in production.
• Hands-on with state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama, Mistral).
• Design prompting and context-engineering strategies for production use.
• Experience building AI agent apps using LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK or similar frameworks.
• Understanding of agent workflows, memory management, tool calling, state orchestration.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and maintain AI-powered applications and intelligent agents.
• Build integrations between AI models and enterprise systems via APIs/tools.
• Develop scalable knowledge retrieval and processing pipelines.
• Ensure AI solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, and production-ready.
• Promote LLMOps, MLOps, observability, testing and CI/CD practices.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and evolve the organisation's AI capabilities.

Conocimientos

Python development

LLM design & prompting

AI pipelines

Agile teamwork

Cross-functional collaboration

.NET/.NET programming

Asynchronous programming

Educación

Degree in Computer Engineering / AI

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

API development

Descripción del empleo

Let's take a look at the profile we are looking for:

• Ambitious people with a passion for this area;
• Degree in Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or similar;
• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years designing and implementing AI-based solutions in production environments;
• Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art LLMs such as GPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama, Mistral, or equivalent models;
• Ability to design effective prompting and context-engineering strategies, structured outputs, and evaluation approaches to optimize LLM performance for production use;
• Experience building AI agent applications using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK, Microsoft Agent Framework, or comparable technologies;
• Understanding of agent workflows, multi-step reasoning, memory management, tool calling, and state orchestration;
• Strong Python development skills;
• Experience with additional programming languages like .NET (mandatory);
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming, API development, relational and NoSQL databases, and scalable service-oriented architectures;
• Experience designing and implementing AI pipelines for document ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and response generation;
• Understanding of AI quality evaluation, latency optimization, and cost monitoring;
• Experience working with Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or equivalent cloud environments;
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD practices;
• Familiarity with cloud security, identity management (IAM), and deployment automation;
• Familiarity with AI-powered software development tools, including GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted testing, code review, and development workflows;
• Experience implementing secure secret management and applying data governance and privacy best practices, including GDPR compliance;
• Written and verbal communication skills (Portuguese and English);
• Passion for learning and staying up to date with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Self-driven mindset with a focus on continuous improvement;
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and agile teams;
• Sense of responsibility, commitment and integrity;
• Focus on innovation, dynamism, autonomy and teamwork.

Main Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain AI-powered applications and intelligent agents;
• Build integrations between AI models and enterprise systems through APIs and custom tools;
• Develop scalable pipelines for knowledge retrieval and information processing;
• Ensure AI solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, and production ready;
• Promote engineering best practices across LLMOps, MLOps, observability, testing, and continuous delivery;
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and contribute to the evolution of the organization's AI capabilities.

What can you expect?

• Hybrid working model;
• National and international projects;
• Health Insurance Benefit for all employees;
• A fair system of competitive rewards upon knowledge and experience;
• Certification, technical and behavioral training to become the best version of yourself;
• Team Building and Happy Hours;
• Committed and successful teams;
• Opportunity to work in a challenging environment with dynamic teams and innovative projects;
• Promotion of happiness, well-being at work, and physical and emotional health, with initiatives that allow a work-life balance culture;
• Benefit scheme along with partners.

In line with our diversity, equity, and inclusion policy, at ITSector we value the creation of a work environment where every employee is treated with dignity and where every opinion matters. We believe that diversity makes us stronger and contributes to the innovation and success of our teams.

In ITSector there is no room for any potential bias, from the Talent Acquisition process till the Career & Development of our employees, diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any form of discrimination incompatible with dignity of human rights are our key drivers.