Generative AI Engineer — LLMs, Azure, Hybrid Lisbon

IRIUM Portugal; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

IRIUM is looking for an AI Engineer to join our Lisbon team. You will design and build Generative AI applications and intelligent agents, integrating with APIs and enterprise data, and delivering production-ready AI components. Strong focus on LLMs, RAG, prompt and context engineering, and guardrails.

This hybrid role is based in Lisbon, with a gross monthly salary of €2,300–€2,800. We offer health insurance, flexible remuneration options and opportunities for rapid professional development.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in Python and SQL.
• Experience designing and developing Generative AI applications, AI assistants, intelligent agents or AI-enabled workflow automation.
• Hands-on experience with Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry or comparable AI platforms.
• Solid understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering.
• Experience with tool calling, agent orchestration, evaluation and monitoring of AI systems.
• Knowledge of guardrails, responsible AI practices and reliable deployment of AI applications in production.
• Experience integrating AI solutions with APIs, enterprise applications, cloud-native services and data platforms.
• Understanding of data pipelines and enterprise integration patterns.
• Ability to develop scalable, reusable and production-ready AI components.
• Experience collaborating with Data Engineers, Data Scientists and software development teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or OpenCode.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Skills

Python

SQL

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Azure AI Services

Azure AI Foundry

LangChain

Model Context Protocol

Snowflake

vector databases

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

OpenCode

Job description

IRIUM is looking for an AI Engineer to join our Lisbon team. You will design and build Generative AI applications and intelligent agents, integrating with APIs and enterprise data, and delivering production-ready AI components. Strong focus on LLMs, RAG, prompt and context engineering, and guardrails.

This hybrid role is based in Lisbon, with a gross monthly salary of €2,300–€2,800. We offer health insurance, flexible remuneration options and opportunities for rapid professional development.