Lisbon Onsite: Senior AI Platform Engineer

Stefanini EMEA; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Career development opportunities

Referral bonuses

Friendly team

Job summary

Stefanini EMEA is hiring a Senior AI Platform Engineer to join a Lisbon-based client. This onsite role focuses on building scalable AI production platforms, automation, and observability to deploy and operate AI solutions in production.

The position emphasizes automation, deployment pipelines, and governance, with collaboration across ML, Platform, and Data teams to ensure reliable, scalable AI delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production ML or AI platforms.
• Experience building automation, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, container platforms, and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release automation, and production operations.
• Strong capability implementing observability across complex distributed applications.
• Understanding of model lifecycle management, deployment strategies, experimentation, and production evaluation.
• Track record collaborating across Platform Eng., ML, Product Eng., and Data Eng. teams.
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills with reliability and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance platform capabilities to deploy and operate AI systems in production.
• Develop automated pipelines for model packaging, deployment, versioning, testing, rollout, rollback, and lifecycle management.
• Build evaluation frameworks measuring model quality, retrieval effectiveness, latency, cost, and business impact.
• Implement monitoring and observability for models, inference services, retrieval pipelines, and AI agents.
• Partner with ML Engineers to transition models from experimentation to production.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to improve infrastructure, scalability, security, reliability, and resilience.
• Develop deployment strategies supporting experimentation, canary releases, A/B testing, progressive rollouts.
• Implement governance controls for reproducibility, version management, auditability, and compliance.
• Drive automation across operational activities to boost engineering productivity and deployment confidence.
• Contribute to ASDLC by embedding evaluation, automation, and operational intelligence into AI delivery processes.

Skills

Production ML

AI platforms

Automation

CI/CD

Cloud-native infra

Container platforms

Distributed systems

Observability

Model lifecycle

Deployment strategies

Experimentation

Production operations

Cross-team collaboration

Troubleshooting

Automation across ops

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Job description

Stefanini EMEA is hiring a Senior AI Platform Engineer to join a Lisbon-based client. This onsite role focuses on building scalable AI production platforms, automation, and observability to deploy and operate AI solutions in production.

The position emphasizes automation, deployment pipelines, and governance, with collaboration across ML, Platform, and Data teams to ensure reliable, scalable AI delivery.