GenAI & Agentic Engineer — Hybrid (Lisbon/Porto)

Accenture Portugal; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Technology seeks a GenAI / Agentic Engineer to develop, test, deploy and improve Generative AI agents for SDLC and business processes. You will work hands-on with Python, agentic frameworks, prompt engineering, LLM APIs, RAG, and enterprise integrations.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to build production-ready solutions in a hybrid work setup across Lisbon or Porto.

Qualifications

• Professional experience developing solutions with Python.
• Strong software engineering practices, including clean code, modular design, testing, and version control.
• Hands-on experience with agent development frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs, including Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or equivalent services.
• Practical knowledge of RAG concepts, including chunking, embeddings, semantic search, hybrid search, and vector indexing.
• Experience integrating REST APIs and enterprise systems such as Git, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
• Knowledge of prompt engineering and context management for Generative AI applications.
• Basic knowledge of Docker and CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools.
• Ability to develop prototypes independently and evolve them into production-ready solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with architects, engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English B1

Responsibilities

• Develop AI agents according to the designs, technical standards, and interface contracts defined by the Agentic Architect.
• Build and optimize system prompts, few-shot examples, tool instructions, and agent reasoning workflows.
• Integrate agents with external tools and APIs through tool use and function calling.
• Implement short-term and long-term memory mechanisms and manage session context.
• Build automated agent evaluations using golden datasets, regression tests, and LLM-as-a-judge techniques.
• Develop supporting backend components, including REST or SOAP endpoints, Azure Functions, and event processors.
• Integrate agents with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, and enterprise applications.
• Implement RAG ingestion pipelines covering chunking, embeddings, indexing, and retrieval.
• Collaborate with Backend and Integration Engineers to define and consume secure API contracts.
• Perform functional, integration, security, and regression testing for AI agents.
• Participate in quality gates, including code reviews, output validation, and security analysis.
• Deploy agents through CI/CD pipelines and monitor their behavior in production.
• Document agent inputs, outputs, dependencies, limitations, escalation strategies, and operational requirements.

Skills

Python

Agent frameworks

Prompt engineering

LLM APIs

RAG concepts

REST API integration

Docker basics

CI/CD

Collaboration

Portuguese & English

Tools

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Azure OpenAI

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Teams

Git

Job description

Accenture Technology seeks a GenAI / Agentic Engineer to develop, test, deploy and improve Generative AI agents for SDLC and business processes. You will work hands-on with Python, agentic frameworks, prompt engineering, LLM APIs, RAG, and enterprise integrations.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to build production-ready solutions in a hybrid work setup across Lisbon or Porto.