Lead AI Engineer: Production Agentic Systems

Accenture Portugal; Braga; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Portugal seeks an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise technology stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and develop reusable patterns and accelerators that scale across engagements.

This role emphasizes production readiness, LLM integration, and scalable architectures, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and cloud-native tooling.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production-grade agentic AI systems.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end LLM orchestration and MLOps.
• Hands-on production debugging and observability in cloud-native stacks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production-grade agentic systems at enterprise scale.
• Define RAG pipeline standards across engagements and ensure quality benchmarks.
• Set multi-LLM integration standards with provider abstraction and cost governance.
• Own LLMOps at programme scale including eval harness and prompt governance.
• Lead client engineering engagements and drive architecture sessions.

Skills

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

LLM APIs

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Observability

Production debugging

Cloud-native

Team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

Accenture Portugal seeks an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise technology stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and develop reusable patterns and accelerators that scale across engagements.

This role emphasizes production readiness, LLM integration, and scalable architectures, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and cloud-native tooling.